BACKGROUND

Clean water is an increasingly scarce resource. According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, approximately 97.5% of the world’s water supply is saltwater and is unsuitable for agricultural, municipal or industrial purposes in its existing form.  Further limiting the water supply is the fact that approximately 70% of freshwater is inaccessible as glaciers and permanent snow cover.  Although the global population is growing, the supply of freshwater has not kept pace, exasperating the water scarcity issue.

Globally, desalination has emerged as a breakthrough technology that allows new sources of freshwater to be created by extracting it from seawater and brackish water. However, the cost, significant power consumption and environmental concerns are key barriers that slow and sometimes prevent adoption of desalination. EWM’s Full Recovery Desalination® technology overcomes these hurdles by integrating chemicals and minerals extraction to subsidize the cost, more efficiently utilizing power and eliminating environmental concerns associated with intake and disposal.

Interest in finding sustainable solutions is a growing worldwide priority. EWM’s environmentally friendly technology is applicable globally to seawater desalination, brackish water desalination, produced water, lithium containing brines, mining tailings, agricultural runoff, and other industrial water sources.

Although there are other companies working to develop technologies to reduce the environmental impact of waste brine disposal, EWM’s technology has several unique characteristics that make it superior technology.  EWM's technology  includes the following characteristics:

•  Technology that is cost competitive with existing, non-environmentally friendly disposal methods. 
•  Does not produce waste products for disposal.
• Often 95% water yield obtained.
•  Ability to fully integrate with renewable energy and produce green products.
•  Recovers valuable minerals such as lithium even in trace concentrations.