Concentrating High Strength Liquids: Recovering Valuable Resources

Brightwater Tools is Re‑Imagining Wastewater Management

The Solution to Pollution is no longer Dilution, it is CONCENTRATION!

Brightwater Tools envisions all wastewater as a resource in circular economies. We’ve developed a technology for food and beverage production, onsite sanitation, and other high strength waste streams to separate the liquids into non-potable water (for reuse) and concentrated liquid products (eg: plant nutrients or other valuable materials).

Our innovative freeze concentration technology makes onsite water treatment and reuse a practical and financially viable option. We save water, nutrients and energy; saving money, resources, and the planet too.

Any technology that can economically concentrate liquid wastewater for reduced transport costs will be in high demand.

Peter Fiske, Executive Director of NAWI, a Program supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, May 2024

Vuna is interested in installing Brightwater's Freeze Concentrators in mountain lodges to promote a broader circular economy. With near-freezing temperatures for much of the year, mountain lodges are the ideal environment for freeze-concentration. There are 50-60 mountain lodges where we would like to install this technology.

Bastian Etter, Managing Director of Vuna

DeSaH is interested in piloting the freeze concentration system during the beta testing period. And if successful, DeSaH would be interested in purchasing the Brightwater Tools product when it is available.

Sybrand Metz, DeSah

A technology that could concentrate nutrients in a high strength wastewater would be a high value in my clients’ infrastructure portfolios.

Amelia Luna, Sherwood Design Engineers

This technology has the potential to not only help PAE design the highest performing buildings, but connect those buildings to the broader ecology. We hope to add Brightwater Tools product to our list of design solutions for our projects.

Justin Stenkamp, PAE

Vuna is interested in installing Brightwater's Freeze Concentrators in mountain lodges to promote a broader circular economy. With near-freezing temperatures for much of the year, mountain lodges are the ideal environment for freeze-concentration. There are 50-60 mountain lodges where we would like to install this technology.

Big Problems

23,000

sanitary sewer overflows happen in the US each year¹

Traditional wastewater systems can’t keep up.

15% of US treatment plants are at or have exceeded capacity²
D+ American Society of Civil Engineers report card score for centralized wastewater³

Sources

Clean water is in crisis.

1.2 trillion gallons of drinkable water is used to flush toilets in the US each year⁴
15,000+ bodies of water are impaired by nitrogen & phosphorus pollution in the US⁵

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Excessive nutrients found in

of lake acres

of river & stream miles⁶

300

increase in the price of nitrogen fertilizers since 2021⁷

Synthetic fertilizers aren’t cutting it.

1.8% of global carbon dioxide emissions are caused by synthetic nitrogen fertilizer production⁸
"If implemented worldwide, recycled urine could replace nearly a quarter of all the synthetic nitrogen fertiliser used in agriculture."⁹

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Costs are mounting.

$2.2 billion is spent annually on damage to US freshwaters caused by eutrophication¹⁰
2% of US electricity is expended in pumping & treating water & wastewater¹¹