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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 River
Controlled testing at Texas A&M AgriLife turf facility
Organic water filters made of mushrooms!

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The first Trinity River Bioremediation Demonstration Project was finally completed in the summer of 2022! This video shows our three project locations. The first is at Joe's Creek in Dallas, a historically polluted stream with high levels of E coli and lots of trash, and in this video grease, flowing into the Trinity River. The second project location is at Cesaro Lake in Mansfield, Texas. The lake is not shown but the creek flowing into Cesario Lake is shown with onion and pineapple biofilters before and after they were assembled and placed in the stream. The residents living on Cesaro Lake said the lake was cleaner and more free of algae than it had been in more than 10 years. The third site of the Trinity River Bioremediation Demonstration was in a constructed wetland in North Texas. This is the filter for 2.5 million North Texas residents. We applied 21,000 gallons of fermenting onion extracts to the water flowing into the wetland from the Trinity River over 45-days in June and July of 2022. After 65-days from the beginning of the application of the fermenting onion extract, environmental sampling showed a substancial reduction of organic nitrogen and ammonia in the sediment. This video will help people learn how to conduct this nutrient reduction program in a nutrient loaded local stream. Most of the substrates, including the onions, pineapples and coffee bags were donated. The microorganisms, molasses, buckets, sisal twine and rope were purchased. We encourage everyone to learn about bioremediation and what you can do to clean our watersheds and save our planet. This project demonstrates the natural powers of food-grade microorganisms growing on food waste, and how this union improves soil and water quality. The fermenting onion extract contributes micro-nutrients, flavonoids, short chain volatile fatty acids, and much more to support the metabolic and reproductive cycles of the microbes that nourish the root systems of (aquatic) plants. The fermented onion extract is intended to boost the microbial activity in the soil, sediment or sludge. The biostimulant feeds the indigenous microbes that naturally break down E. coli and nutrients. Thank you for watching! Please forward this video to others. More information can be found at www.waterisalive.org
The greywater recycling systems in this video are examples of how we can recycle shower water and laundry water (without filtration) and use the water directly on plants and trees.
Greetings Waterlings! This is a video of a greywater recycling project from my laundry water. This is more advanced than a direct laundry-to-lawn system because of the pre-filter, three anaerobic bio-cells, and a 300 gallon mini-constructed wetland. A video of the mostly finished project is followed by pictures of the process of constructing the 300 gallon IBC tote water filter.
This video is on field tests conducted with an onion based biostimulant. The first clips show the foliar application of the onion biostimulant to the leaves of kale plants prevents a certain insect from infesting the plants. The next clip is showing the start of a field demonstration on May 3, 2022 of various rates of application, 10%, 25% and 50% of the biostimulant mixed with water and applied to corn at the time of planting. The control patch of land seeded with corn has no biostimulant. We did not add any fertilizers. We planted 4 rows at 17.5 feet long with 32 plants in each row of the biostimulant at 10%, 25% and the control patch. Each row of these 3 groups represents 1/1000 of an acre. We will be following the progress of this demonstration. The third portion is the "worst-case-scenario" study of the application of the biostimulant. By soaking the same corn seeds planted in the field study for 24 hours, we show that the seeds soaked in a 10% solution of the biostimulant looked much better and were much bigger than the control study that was only soaked in water without biostimulant. Thank you. Please comment.
This video is a tour of the AgriLife Extension Center in Dallas Texas featuring Fouad Jaber, Ph.D., P.E. Professor and Extension Specialist Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department at Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service. A monumental example of how we can manage stormwater runoff with meandering berms, native plants and trees and an amazing rainwater harvesting system. Thank you Bluebonnet Resource Conservation and Development District for the Soil Builders Internship Summer Camp. Go Soil builders, GO!
The proposed location of the Trinity River Bioremediation Demonstration Project is Joe's Creek. This video is recorded on a warm summer day during a survey of Joe's Creek, near downtown Dallas. We are raising funds to test Water Is Alive's biofilters in these waters that contain high levels of e-coli. The methods we will use in three kinds of biofilters are myceliated (mushroom) filters and food grade bacteria that eat the e coli in the water. Our tests will have very minimal impact on the creek bed or the banks and promise to improve water quality. We have qualified for Nationwide Permit 18 and with your support we can prove in Joe's Creek how YOU TOO can use microorganisms to clean up contaminated water! For more information check out the Permit page on www.waterisalive.org Thanks for watching, enjoy the trip!
We hope this is inspiring you to Bokashi compost and do something excellent like clean a friends fridge!
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