NuWater: Water Treatment Technology

The impact of NuWater water treatment solutions can be assessed according to the different sectors it has been deployed for use.

NuWater Water Treatment in Agriculture

Confronted with ever-tightening water restrictions, a large national farming consortium was faced with a huge problem in their chicken farm as the quality of water availability is not up to its standards and threatens the survival of its egg laying facility.

This water crisis in the farm will directly affect operations, thereby putting jobs and livelihood at risk, creating chicken shortage, and driving an increase in prices apparently unfavorable for the common man.

A rapid deployment of NuWater water treatment plant built by incorporating a cutting edge combination of ultrafiltration and Reverse Osmosis technologies provided quality water available, restoring operations, and impacting jobs and livelihood of people.

Goals achieved: Goal 1, 2, 6, 8, and 9

NuWater Treatment in Mining

At the bank of the Vaal River is a Colliery, a net water positive mine which employs open cast strip mining to produce 18 million tons of low-grade coal every year. The mine also, deposited and stored wastewater from various pit watering operations, production process, and rainwater of over 8200 million litres reservoir often left to evaporate.

However, with the reservoir approaching its maximum capacity, there was a need for a wastewater treatment solution to avoid the wastewater from the reservoir to spill into the Vaal River which is a source of water for not just agriculture and industry but also 12 million consumers in and around Guateng, South Africa.

NuWater in response deployed a robust water solution plants and treatment plan that not only successfully dealt with extraordinarily dynamic deviations in the wastewater, but ever changing product qualities and quantities required to align to the fluctuating mining schedule and seasoning rainfall.

NuWater has equally produced more than 30 billion litres of water in 8 years of operation.

Goals achieved: 6, 9 and 11

NuWater Treatment in Industry

In March 2016, the uMhalathuze Municipality instituted the highest water restrictions as a result of drought, poor water infrastructure and increasing demands. The Aluminum Smelter of a giant mining corporation was threatened for close down. The closure of the smelter will invariably affect the region’s GDP as it contributes 10% of the region’s GDP.

As a response, NuWater deployed its water treatment plant with the capacity of generating 2 million litres a day. This solution saved the smelter from shutdown.

The impact includes the prevention of loss of 20,000 jobs of which will probably directly affect 80,000 people. Also, South Africa was saved from being a net importer of aluminum which would have cost the country 4 billion Rands annually.

Goals achieved: 1, 2, 6, 8, 9 and 11

NuWater Treatment in Power

With the rising levels of wastewater in their evaporating ponds, an international power generation organization collaborated with NuWater wastewater treatment solution.

The idea is to reduce rising wastewater which poses not just environmental risk but also has the potential of interrupting the operation of the power station’s operation.

With NuWater technologies, the product water reclaimed from the ponds was a high-quality process water, providing the Power saving with a sustainable resource, in turn reducing water usage and cost.

Goals achieved: 6, 7 and 9