Aqua Vectors Inc., is organzied around creating new clean-water technologies based on a patent-pending electrolytic detoxification method. The firm is targeting nitrates, a common groundwater contaminant in rural areas and fairly reliable indicator of the presence of other contaminants, such as bacteria and pesticides. The firm's novel process provides an effective, inexpensive and reliable tool for polishing wastewater before it is discharged into the environment. Nitrate levels in aquifers and surface waters are increasing and in certain areas have reached crisis levels. Nitrates can stimulate algae blooms, depriving the water of oxygen and releasing cyanotoxins that kill off seagrass and marine-life populations and otherwise wreak environmental havoc on wetlands, as evidenced by the regular occurrence of red tides, brown tides and fish kills. Aqua Vectorsâ approach combines multiple chemistry-based disciplines and an amalgam of anodes, cathodes, hydrogen and hydroxyl ions and flow-directing devices. Though the underlyingscience is complicated, it may be that the firm's approach could provide a simple, cost-effective method for reducing nitrogen levels in the discharge from wastewater treatment plants with important societal impact
