Services by iWater

Discover the comprehensive range of services offered by iWater, designed to tackle water and soil pollution with advanced biotechnological solutions. From environmental assessments to tailored remediation strategies, our expert team delivers sustainable results for a cleaner, healthier environment.

⦁ Analyses and testing of water and soil.
⦁ Laboratory optimization and demonstration (in-house-owned facilities).
⦁ Modular mobile water treatment rental units (to be used on the client’s site).
⦁ Monitoring and operational management of site treatment plants or wastewater works.
⦁ Techno-economic and compliance auditing of plants.
⦁ Expert consulting

A phased, interactive process is followed

⦁ Treatment solution development,
⦁ Implementation of technology,
⦁ Final roll-out to upscale phases for treatment.

Established water and soil treatment solutions for:

Inorganic contaminants (hexavalent chromium, arsenic, selenium etc.)
Excess nutrient levels (nitrate, phosphate, potassium etc.)
Mine affected water (pH, sulphate, metals etc.)
Hydrocarbon contamination
Pharmaceuticals
Chlorinated compounds
Radionuclides
Nature based solutions:
Scientific evidence of monitored natural attenuation processes
Microbiological assessments of soil and groundwater
Natural attenuation
Enhanced soil quality
Restore soil capability
Biogeochemistry and ecological functioning of impacted water and soil

Consulting:

Expert interpretation of client’s liabilities
Development of tailored solutions
Environmental site assessment
Contaminated land assessment
Remediation planning and design
Environmental due diligence
Corporate environmental liability assessment
Environmental risk assessment

Analyses / Testing:

Comprehensive microbial diversity and metabolic analysis
Laboratory development of proof of concept
Water and soil quality tests
Comprehensive characterisation of organic and inorganic contaminants
Emerging contaminant detection
Environmental stable isotope (ESI)
Waste assessment

Soil Specialities

Contaminated soil assessment
Soil leach tests
Treatment solution development and support with site implementation

Water Specialities

Water quality compliance
We supply water test kits (on-site indicators of contamination) and these kits can be customised for clients
Treatment solution development and site implementation
Techno-economic auditing of plants
Final roll-out to upscale phases for treatment
Training of operational staff to operate and maintain bioremediation plants

Phased interactive process

Comprehensive site assessments

Microorganisms are ubiquitous in the environment and have evolved to a variety of essential functions to ensure survival, even in the world’s most harsh conditions. They play a vital role in the natural recycling of organic and inorganic compounds. If one understands these bacterial communities and their functionality, it can explain many “dark questions” of major environmental contamination problems.
Through its in-house contributions and international independent verification with selected service providers, iWater provides the latest informative molecular biological tools.

The iWater team, with their extensive expertise, can help clients to understand environmental challenges of a specific environment. They can also assist in implementing effective remediation strategies to solve the problem of pollutants and contamination for industrial companies, biological research groups, water suppliers, or even the local farmer.

In addition to chemical, environmental stable isotope and biokinetic assessments, iWater can provide molecular biological tools to assist clients to understand environmental challenges and the effects thereof in their unique environments. These tools include:

⦁ metagenomic sequencing analysis,
⦁ data generation and processing,
⦁ and bioinformatic assessments with advance computational abilities

iWater have evaluated a range of typical and extreme environments to benchmark the best options to enable their clients’ decision-making process, to understand their biological diversity or to increase the efficacy of treatment strategies. The tools allow clients to identify the entire indigenous microbial diversity up to genus level, and with special analysis even to species level.

iWater is in a position to provide the knowledge and experience needed to integrate the microbial diversity with the surrounding geochemical – and physicochemical data in order to support informed decision-making with clients. It will enable them to use changes in the microbial community over time or after an environmental event, e.g. the addition of toxins or spills.

The tools iWater can add is more on microbial functionality – the core question for all environments. This permits them to identify specific contaminant degrading microbe and even their functional genes. iWater uses custom pipelines and optimisation for functionality and will infer the potential functional capabilities with peer-reviewed literature of cultured representatives. The description of the bacterial community structure and its dynamics leads to a better understanding of the natural degradation processes and can ultimately direct treatment strategies for controlled bioremediation processes.

The data descriptions will indicate if the microbial communities are dominated, for example, by chemoheterotrophic – or heterotrophic organisms. Specific dominant metabolisms can also be showcased (e.g. nitrate – or sulphate metabolism).