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Brightwater Joins StartUp Rutland Accelerator

September 5, 2024

Brightwater Tools is proud and honored to be a part of the StartUp Rutland's Accelerator powered by gener8tor! Lots of awesome stuff going on in Rutland, Vermont. Stay tuned for Demo Night on October 23rd. Check it out! https://lnkd.in/eNgv-Nfb

Brightwater Energizes Audience at LaunchVT Demo Night

Brightwater Tools was honored to receive the Audience Choice Award at the 2024 LaunchVT Demo Night on Tuesday, June 11th. It was attended by 400+ people and was livestreamed. This turnout was their highest attendance rate to date.

The future of fertilizer? Pee, says this Brattleboro institute

Brightwater in the Media

“ ‘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 […]

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 […]

CBS Sunday Morning features Brightwater co-founders and pasteurizer

January 14, 2024

Brightwater in the Media

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

October 25, 2023

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

October 4, 2023

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

September 27, 2023

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

September 9, 2023

Brightwater in the Media

“…Brightwater Tools is poised to implement next-generation sanitation solutions to achieve a circular economy and a sustainable future.” Read the article here.

Advancing the Design and Operating Conditions for Block Freeze Concentration of Urine-Derived Fertilizer

October 18, 2021

Additional Resources

“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.” Read the paper here.

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