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Employing a unique business model and a technical paradigm with the potential to fundamentally change the perceived water balance, EarthWater Global uses technologies familiar to the oil and gas industries to locate and develop renewable, previously overlooked groundwater resources. In his book, “Modern Groundwater Exploration”, company President Robert A. Bisson details a concept of freshwater transmission through and collection in ‘Megawatersheds’: bedrock fractures formed by millennia of plate tectonics activity. Over time, water flowing through these fractures erodes the rock, creating sizeable pathways that may extend from tens to thousands of kilometers. The resources are massive: feasibility studies and case work with organizations including USAID, NASA, USDOE, and OFDA suggest that, if implemented globally, the Megawatershed Paradigm could expand upon known sustainable groundwater resources by 10 to 100 times. Some wonder how the water has been ignored for so long. Conventional hydrology both under-measures precipitation at high-altitude and fails to include crustal permeability in the freshwater balance. As a result, present day estimates of sustainable groundwater capacity are too low.
The benefits for global health and development are obvious. EarthWater’s solution is capable of providing potable water when and where it is needed most. The company assumes all upfront capital risk and then delivers water at a service rate that is highly competitive to alternatives. Wells have little to no environmental footprint, each requiring just 1/20th of a hectare. And, unlike traditional point-source solutions, EarthWater is able to site its wells at or near the point of demand. This is highly unusual in the water community: rarely can a country’s demographics determine sites of production.
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http://www.earthwaterglobal.com/emmyawards.htm - the online version of a booklet highlighting the dimensions of the Global Water Crisis and our EarthWater's innovative solutionto it; EarthWater was asked to create the book for the 2007 Emmy Awards Nominee Party where the theme was to showcase environmentally-friendly and sustainable solutions to several of the serious problems plaguing the world.
At the International Water Conference held at the United Nations, EarthWater presented the following on July 24th, 2008: "The Earth Leaks! Megawatershed Discovery Adds Significant New Water to the Known Hydrologic Balance" (Robert Bisson) http://www.earthwaterglobal.com/documents/EarthWaterUNPresentation.pdf