Aqua Fission’s vision is to solve the world’s water crisis, providing easy, sustainable access to fresh, clean water. Smarter. Low cost, mobile, infinitely scalable, with no toxic brine or emissions, Aqua Fission can process water virtually anywhere, from any source, and any scale… with unmatched ROI
Aqua Fission is the world’s first sustainable large-scale, Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) water desalination and decontamination technology.
2.2 billion people lack access to safely managed drinking water services—meaning the water may not be on their premises, may be unreliable, or could be contaminated.
Half of all people on Earth experience severe water scarcity at least once a month.
785 million people (≈10% of the global population) still rely on untreated surface water (lakes, rivers) for drinking.
Over 4.4 billion people—more than half the global population—lack safe water at home.
Clean water anywhere from any source at a fraction of the cost with minimal environmental impact.
Aqua Fission is a modular, infinitely scalable, off-grid-capable water treatment platform. It’s thermodynamic vacuum technology with extremely low energy consumption, purifies high-salinity, contaminated, or radioactive water sources with more than 99% water recovery at source temperatures as low as 4°C without membranes, chemicals, or other consumables.
Aqua Fission produces no toxic brine or Reverse Osmosis Concentrate (ROC) and no direct CO₂ emissions. Flexible control of output quality allows multiple water compositions to be produced from the same source. Our platform can be a retrofit to current reverse osmosis systems to treat toxic brine and double capacity.
Desalinate.
Decontaminate.
Any Source.
Anywhere.
Clean Water From Any Source, Anywhere, at Any Scale
The proprietary AquaFission system effectively desalinates and decontaminates all sources of water from seawater and contaminated wells to industrial wastewater, brinewater from reverse osmosis plants, and irradiated water.
Just one Aqua Fission line yields 100 m3 (100,000 liters) of pure water and 4 tons of valuable wet salt daily — with no toxic brine.
Efficiency.
No Waste.
At Any Scale.
The modular, off-grid-ready system can be deployed in virtually any environment at any scale. With remote monitoring and a simple design with low maintenance, Aqua Fission purifies water from any source with up to 99% efficiency, creating no brine and no CO2 emissions.
7 Aqua Fission lines yield 700 m3 (700,000 liters) of pure water and 28 tons of valuable wet salt daily.
Benefits
Access to clean freshwater is becoming not only a humanitarian issue but a geopolitical flashpoint—putting energy, food security, and even lives at risk. Aqua Fission’s groundbreaking technology can help change all that and a fraction of the cost of current technologies such as reverse osmosis (RO).
Unmatched Efficiency:
For every 100 tons of water processed, standard RO technology generates 40-50% toxic wastewater (brine), posing a threat to marine ecosystems. Aqua Fission eliminates this issue, producing 98-99 tons of potable water and 3-4 tons of marketable wet salt from the same volume of seawater, without introducing pollutants back into the ocean – all in a modular, scalable, eco-friendly, sustainable platform at a fraction of the cost and energy use of RO.
Compare Aqua Fission to Reverse Osmosis at 10,000 m3 capacity >
- Low CAPEX / OPEX and fast ROI
- Zero liquid discharge (ZLD): No brine waste, RO Concentrates, and related disposal costs
- Modular / Scalable
- Small footprint / fast deployment
- Low maintenance
- Remote management reduces labor needs
- No chemicals, membranes, reagents, inhibitors, coagulants, filters, cathodes, or anodes.
CAPEX
OPEX
The Problem with Reverse Osmosis
Pressure is increasing to adopt sustainable technologies while rising water scarcity and brine-disposal bans accelerate demand. Reverse Osmosis (RO) dominates the water desalination and treatment market today. RO is a problematic solution because it is energy-intensive and often powered by fossil fuels, relies on plastic membranes and requires chemical treatments and constant consumable replacement. Importantly, RO generates large volumes of toxic brine and reverse-osmosis concentrates (ROC) that are costly to manage, environmentally harmful, and increasingly restricted by regulation.
Aqua Fission not only solves energy, waste, and cost limitations of RO and thermal systems, it can be a retrofit to existing RO plants to process toxic brine and ROC’s and double freshwater capacity.
Read [Debunking desalination] by the World Wildlife Federation
- Energy-intensive and costly, requiring heating, consumables such as chemicals, membranes, reagents, inhibitors, coagulants, filters, cathodes and anodes, and high-pressure pumps that require regular replacement.
- High labor, maintenance, and toxic brine and reverse osmosis concentrate disposal costs.
- Significant greenhouse emissions
- Outputs 50% brine and reverse osmosis concentrates (ROCs) in the reject stream, increasing toxicity and disposal complexity.
- Toxic salt brine (highly concentrated seawater) and ROC’s are loaded with chemicals and heavy metals, depletes oxygen, and threatens entire ecosystems.
- Only 50% clean water output (and 50% toxic brine) requiring the processing of 2X water volume.
- Ineffective on high salt content water, PFAS and microplastics, and radioactive contaminants such as tritium.
- Requires pre- and post-treatment.
- Mineral loss and acidic pH.
- Processing and sources lead to bad tasting water.
