It is the most widespread form of water pollution. The mechanisms that cause Eutrophication add excessive amounts of nutrients to our lakes, streams and oceans — driven primarily by human inputs. The overly enriched water causes plants and algae to die and decompose resulting in oxygen depletion and fish kills.
Every year over 20 million metric tonnes of phosphorus and nitrogen leak to the environment from farmlands, factories and cities. Nutrient pollution at this scale causes harmful algal blooms in our waterways resulting in toxic conditions for humans and dead-zones where no aquatic life can survive.
At the same time, untreated human waste and unsafe sanitation practices in developing countries cost more than half a million human lives and over $200B annually. Over 90% of waste in developing nations is discharged to waterways untreated.
Of phosphorus and nitrogen feeding algae blooms run off from mainly agricultural lands end up in our lakes, rivers, and oceans each year.
Estimated cost of socioeconomic damage to our water supply in 2012.
Worth of nutrients are lost in our waterways every year.
By capturing excess nutrients for reuse at point and nonpoint sources, wastewater flow from drainage, manure, sewage, water treatment facilities and mines could be returned to phosphorus-deficient soils; decreasing food production costs while creating a circular economy based on reusable fertilizer alternatives developed from waste streams.
Recognizing the precious value of these waste resources, capturing them before they reach critical waterways, and recycling them back to farmlands as fertilizer is the only sustainable and economical solution going forward.
Our patent pending filtering technology is made from abundant & renewable resources available in virtually every country and captures nitrogen and phosphorus for reuse.
