Water Anywhere. From Any Source.
Modular and Infinitely Scalable. One X100 line yields 100,000 liters of clean water per day and 4 tons of valuable wet salt.
An Historic Breakthrough in Water Treatment
Aqua Fission is the world's first sustainable, Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) water desalination and decontamination technology.
Aqua Fission's vision is a world where clean water is abundant, resilient, and produced without waste, pollution, or long-term environmental harm. Aqua Fission transforms contaminated, saline, and impaired water into clean, usable supply through a patented, Zero Liquid Discharge, thermodynamic separation technology that reduces cost, risk, and environmental impact across communities and industries.
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
Clean Water. Smarter.
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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.
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Half of all people on Earth
experience severe water scarcity at least once a month.
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785 million
people (≈10% of the global population) still rely on untreated surface water (lakes, rivers) for drinking.
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Over 4.4 billion people
—more than half the global population—lack safe water at home.
Anywhere. Any source. Any scale.
Aqua Fission is a modular, infinitely scalable, off-grid-ready water treatment platform providing clean water anywhere from any source at any scale at a fraction of the cost with minimal environmental impact. Our thermodynamic separation technology with extremely low energy consumption (.7 – 1 kWh/m3), purifies high-salinity, contaminated, and even radioactive water sources with more than 99% water recovery at source temperatures as low as 4°C without costly membranes, chemicals, or other consumables.
Aqua Fission produces no toxic brine or Reverse Osmosis Concentrate (ROC) and no direct CO₂ emissions. Our platform can be a retrofit to current reverse osmosis systems to treat toxic brine and ROCs and double capacity.
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 2,000 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
Capital Expense ($M)
OPEX
Operating Expenses ($M)
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
HIGH CAPEX/OPEX
- 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.
HARMS ENVIRONMENT
- 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.
HIGHLY INEFFICIENT
- 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.