WATER IS ALIVE | Bioremediation for a healthier planet.
A WIN-WIN-WIN SCENARIO
Who doesn’t like clean, fresh water; healthful air; nutrient-rich soil; and a vibrant, diverse habitat?
As science continues to prove to us, these things are continually under threat due to systems and powers that allow for an abuse of contaminants that put every one of us at risk of poor health and wellbeing.
We have the power, resources, and know-how to implement sustainable practices on both a personal and corporate level with real results in almost real time. Not sometime in the future or when policies finally call for reductions.
The ultimate mission of Water Is Alive is to drive positive action via measurable, proven results. We call it a Win-Win-Win For All. We’re using science to employ realistic, healthy, and scalable immediate solutions to bioremediate (aka “clean up”) our waterways and soil so that we can all enjoy a life of harmony, abundance, and regeneration.
For businesses, investing in and reporting on Environmental governance and remediation has become an important part of business life. Our work aligns perfectly with helping companies and organizations realize their sustainability goals (ESG) while reducing costs across a number of areas – most notably in the revitalization of the vast agriculture and manufacturing sectors of our economy.
PLEASE DONATE TO FUND OUR WORK AND OUR DOCUMENTARY PROJECT!
While we receive minimal grants for our work, we rely on the support of engaged citizens like you to fund our on-the-ground work! Please donate today and we’ll keep you up-to-date with our steady progress, solutions, partnerships, and information on what you can do. Want to be part of our film? We’re also working on a documentary project and would love to count you as one of our citizen producers with a donation!
As of Fall 2023, we have received a large grant from the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency). The United Nations has also recognized our invaluable work to augment their Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Please see some of our Projects & News below!
At the heart of our work is…
the billions-of-years-old fact that the power to metabolize pollution is ‘alive’ in many microorganisms. Water Is Alive is continuing work to prove that we can use food grade microorganisms grown on organic waste & agricultural by-products to clean up contamination — AT SCALE.
Our biological remediation (bioremediation) process utilizes pre-consumer fruit and vegetable organic wastes as the carrier substrates of beneficial microorganisms that can break down nutrients and contaminants that lead to surface and ground water impairments. Translation: Single celled microbes will eat fruits and chemicals!
We have positive results from The Trinity River Bioremediation Project as well as bio-filtration methods which can be applied to any impaired waterway. Fresh, clean water is the most important resource in our lives. And it our mission to make sure it’s available and abundant for current and future generations.
Water Is Alive also provides educational services and resources.
Anaerobic fermentation of organic wastes on small, medium and large scale, remediation of soil and water utilizing organic wastes, resources on permitting for waterway and Brownfield remediation, research collaboration efforts and partnerships.
We have years of work to get permits in order to demonstrate viable bioremediation and would love to share our knowledge and resources. Remediation is usually very expensive and we can help make your project more affordable and viable!
Inspiring action locally and globally
Join us in learning how to apply these natural remedies to clean up our many brownfields (a.k.a. contaminated plots of land) and our impaired waterways. We can start as soon as today to clean up pollution together.
West Fork of the Trinity RiverControlled testing at Texas A&M AgriLife turf facilityOrganic water filters made of mushrooms!
The Trinity River Bioremediation Demonstration is a project that utilizes food-grade microorganisms growing on agricultural by-products to stimulate the naturally occurring microorganisms in the soil and sediment of the Trinity River to more effectively break down nutrients and contaminants.
Originally designed for small streams affected by high levels of E coli and powered by student made bio-filters, the Trinity River Bioremediation Demonstration that took place between June 15 and July 27 added 22,200 gallons of fermented onion juice to the John Bunker Sands Wetlands. The presentation on August 20 at the Wetland Center will explain the science behind why fermented onion juice can help break down phosphates and other nutrients and bacteria. We will present the data collected during and after the demonstration and discuss the variables of working in a constructed wetland versus a small stream or wastewater treatment plant. We will also give an instructional on how to make your own organic waste based biostimulant and help you find the microbes we use to inoculate the wetlands under a microscope.
After the presentation we will take a walk on the boardwalk, in the wetland filtration cell where the demonstration took place. John Bunker Sands Wetlands is one of the largest constructed wetlands in the world, filtering up to 92 million gallons of river water every day for the Upper Trinity River Watershed customers. The Trinity River provides drinking water for half of all Texans.
