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A Novel Approach To Nitrate Removal
In California and the American Midwest, there are thousands of developed wells that have been critically impacted from decades of agricultural development. Excess nitrates from the large-scale use of agricultural fertilizers have pervaded into local aquifers — directly threatening human and environmental health. APTwater estimates that less than 10% of these wells are currently being treated in the US, as treatment and waste disposal costs have discouraged land-locked municipalities from traditional technology solutions like reverse osmosis and ion exchange. The most common answer for nitrate contamination is often the most short-sighted; when communities choose to drill new wells or even drill existing wells deeper they defer the problem, not find a solution.
Over the past several years, APTwater spent a significant effort developing a special process designed specifically for this nitrate challenge. Despite the complexity of the problem, the ARoNite technology is simple — we create an environment for naturally-occurring biology to thrive. The special environment allows our biology to accept hydrogen gas as an electron donor and in turn reduce nitrates in the water to innocuous nitrogen gas.
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