grow clean water onsite
Remove contaminants from stormwater, runoff and/or wastewater, for use in irrigation, toilets, air conditioners and even drinking. Unlike mechanical treatment processes, our systems are organic, dynamic, self-organizing, and resilient, so they can adapt to changing effluent quality better than mechanical/chemical systems.
Pipe stormwater, gray water and/or wastewater into a decentralized water remediation system, adapted to meet local health & water quality standards.
Effluent moves through aerated treatment biota. The system exploits sunlight, oxygen, bacteria, algae, plants, snails & fish that work symbiotically to purify the water. Aeration & mixing in the tanks keeps nutrients in suspension.
Effluent flows to a lined marsh, where valuable accumulated nutrients grow landscape, food or other economically productive biomass, avoiding the environmental & economic inefficiency of conventional, centralized water treatment. Enhanced degradation results in fewer solids than conventional systems.
Residual nutrients are exported as infrequently as once or twice a year, potentially for financial gain. Water, treated to a tertiary level or better, leaves the marsh for storage.
Solar-powered or bio-fuel pumps transport the resultant clean water, entirely safe for reuse in Irrigation, interior uses like toilets, planters,
air conditioning, & groundwater recharge.
seawater-irrigated landscape without desal
At near-shore sites, untreated seawater achieves ornamental landscape and biofuel production, leaving fresh water supplies for drinking. This methodology greens otherwise non-arable land. Its lush vegetation reduces dissolved solids and contaminants, as it captures atmospheric carbon and deposits it in the soil.
The nutrient-rich effluent then moves into production wetlands that hold halophytes (which grow in saltwater) and glycophytes (which grow in brackish water).
Salt water irigates species with commercial value such as:
This process helps clean seawater and sediment of contaminants, before returning it to groundwater or the source.
greenscape without imported freshwater
At near-shore sites, mix pure, untreated seawater with treated wastewater, stormwater and runoff, to expand and fertilize landscape, without relying on imported potable water for irrigation. This broadens the plant palette for ornamental vegetation and can grow landscape, food or other economically productive biomass.
The approach mixes three water sources:
This results in brackish water, an ideal medium for “glycophytes,” plants that thrive in lightly saline conditions.
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