Published Articles and News
The future of fertilizer? Pee, says this Brattleboro institute
“ ‘We really did intend from the very beginning to be disruptive. To really shake it up and say wait, what are we doing here?’ Nace said, comparing urine reuse to windmills and electric cars.
Nace is now the executive director of Brightwater Tools, a spinoff company that makes the technology Rich Earth uses to separate the urine from wastewater.”
-Kate Kampner, Vermont Public
Brightwater Tools Selected for 2024 LaunchVT Cohort
Brightwater Tools has been selected as one of 8 companies in Vermont to join the 2024 LaunchVT Accelerator Cohort. Entrepreneurs in the LaunchVT cohort will work with dedicated business coaches and strategic advisors to address their startup's most pressing needs over an 11-week period. The program culminates into a Demo Night on June 11 where the cohort founders will pitch to 300+ investors.
CBS Sunday Morning features Brightwater co-founders and pasteurizer
Our CEO Kim Nace and CTO Abe Noe-Hays were interviewed on CBS Sunday Morning for a segment about ‘peecycling’ and the work of our parent company, the Rich Earth Institute. Watch a spotlight on our pasteurizer at 3:47!
Brightwater engineers co-win poster competition at NOWRA conference
Two of our engineers, Arthur Davis and Ryan Homeyer, were the co-winners of the Emerging Professional poster competition at the 2023 National Onsite Water Reuse Association Mega-conference for their poster, “Source Separation of Toilet Waste for Nitrogen and Phosphorus Recovery and Water Reuse”.
Brightwater CEO moderates panel at WEFTEC
Brightwater Tools CEO, Kim Nace, moderated a panel on distributed water infrastructure at the Water Environment Federation’s 2023 Technical Exhibition and Conference. The panel featured financial, technical, and governmental expertise and highlighted the need for distributed systems.
Brightwater CTO speaks at International Nutrient Recovery Conference
Brightwater CTO, Abraham Noe-Hays, was honored as a distinguished guest at the Australian Research Council’s Nutrients in a Circular Economy (NiCE) 2023 Summit.
Catalyzing Commercialization: Novel Treatment Process Makes Fertilizer from Human Waste
“…Brightwater Tools is poised to implement next-generation sanitation solutions to achieve a circular economy and a sustainable future.”
Advancing the Design and Operating Conditions for Block Freeze Concentration of Urine-Derived Fertilizer
“This paper is focused on evaluating the performance of a scalable block freezing device …[that] retained 92% of nutrients and achieved a concentration index of 5.8.”
