Water Bioscience
TODAY: people spend more than 200 billion euros to purchase bottled water,
mainly because they question the purity and dislike the taste of tap water.
Unfortunately, only 20% of the world’s population can afford this privilege.
With our large systems the total cost of one liter is € 0.005, providing two liters for
each person per day the entire world’s population can have pathogen free drinking
water costing only 30 billion euros per year (with a capital outlay of 160 billion
euros), water provided by “point of use” community managed systems. In contrast
to the 200 billion euros being spent yearly on bottled water, the world needs and
can afford this innovation, so here is our plan:
Availability of safe drinking water has become a concern for all Governments, due to water shortages caused by climate change, mutating viruses, and drug resistant “superbugs”. Scientific thinktanks are sure that if growing water contamination is not addressed a future Pandemic of Waterborne Disease is inevitable.
It is clear, water treatment methods used today: chemicals, filters, reverse osmosis, distillation, ozone, UV and even bottled water are failing to meet today’s challenge for clean water.
We have invented a new process that is substantially different from what is in use today, it utilizes the oldest method known to mankind, for disinfecting food and water, HEAT! Water BioScience has developed and patented the world’s first and only drinking water sterilization system that uses heat, under pressure, that not only purifies but goes much farther killing all pathogens, including viruses, sterilizing water to an SAL 10-6 also removing chlorine and carcinogenic THM’s.
Simply this is how it works: (1) Chamber is full of water; heat is applied. (2) Temperature raises to “Critical Temperature” (CT) when reached, SAL 10-6 is achieved. (3) Upon the CT being reached the temperature measurement signals the Output valve to open, creating a steam phase, converting a small amount of the water to steam, expanding to move the sterile water to the exit conduit, without the use of any exterior pumping, when the chamber is empty the valve closes. (4) Output valve closure signals, the Input valve to open and close, refilling the chamber with water. (closure of the input valve starts the next cycle)
Households: from Paris to Bangladesh that use municipal water and mains
electricity, can have good tasting “better than bottled water from the tap” costing
less than one dollar per day, for up to forty people, eliminating disposable plastic
bottles that are destroying our environment. The countertop system can be
shipped, requiring simple setup and is totally “plug and play”.
Health care: sterilizing the entire water supply into hospitals by providing 100
gallons per bed, will cost less than $1.00 per patient day or for specific units i.e.
neonatal wards, tissue labs, ICU and dental/doctors’ offices. Infant safe water to
prepare powdered formula, distributed by well-baby clinics, at a fraction of a
penny per liter.
Hospitality and food service: One of the greatest fear’s, travelers have leaving
their home environment, is illness from contaminated water. Hotels, fast food
restaurants and coffee shops, can have safe (sterile) water for the entire facility.
Hotels at a cost of less than $ 0.50 fifty cents per guest day, while fast food
restaurants and coffee shops could give safe water to all customers at a total cost of
only $20 twenty dollars a day.
Water and beverage bottling plants: our million gallons per day system can
eliminate an egregious misuse of the planet’s dwindling water resource. Bottlers
use only one gallon of the three gallons taken from the aquafer, returning
biologically contaminated brackish discharge back to the environment. Our method
wastes no water, no minerals are removed, and no waste is discharged.
Emergency, and disaster relief: a self-contained 20-foot shipping container,
sterilizer, water storage and bottle-filling unit on site, will produce 100,000 liters
of 100% safe water from contaminated sources, that have extreme levels of
disease-causing organisms. It will provide drinking water for fifty thousand people.
Hospital sewerage effluent: hospitals, clinics, nursing homes and research
facilities discharge effluent with dangerous levels of antimicrobial-resistant (AMR)
pathogens, “superbugs” into our ground water, rivers, and oceans. THIS CAN BE
STOPPED by treatment with Water BioScience systems, the only process that can
totally sterilize effluent (water containing feces) to an SAL of 10-6
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Wastewater: systems to be used for high turbidity/wastewater disinfection, i.e.,
grey water recovery, ships bilge and ballast discharge. While ships travel from port
to port, they take on millions of gallons of water for ballast, required for safe
navigation. Taking on highly contaminated water at ports in Africa, discharging the
water in numerous active ports of EU and USA.
- Strengthen disease surveillance, early warning predictive systems, and other data systems to detect, slow, or halt future disease outbreaks.
Better living starts with clean water. Innovation Sterilization system for your home or business.
- Pilot: An organization deploying a tested product, service, or business model in at least one community.
Research, development, and field testing has been conducted in The Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom, Switzerland, and the USA. A volume of testing and validation material has been recorded most recently in peer reviewed, Springer Publication, Applied Water Science, published March 30, https://rdcu.be/b3j4I .
- A new technology
Co-founders Autumn Toth and inventor John Bowen have worked with researchers from the University of Southern California USC (1), JPL Caltech (2), and the Water Campus CEW (3,4,5), at the University of Applied Science in Leeuwarden The Netherlands, to develop and validate the Water BioScience patented innovation capable of sterilizing contaminated high turbidity water.
The intellectual property is protected by four US patents and an EU patent application, all the patents, and intellectual property are assigned to Water BioScience by inventor John Bowen.
List of Patents assigned and the number of “use life” years for each patent.
US 10,343,933 BI (for18 years) US 9,005,145 B2 (for 11 years) US 9,211,351 B2 (for 11 years) US 7,862,784 B2 (for 10 years)
(1) “EFFICACY STUDY ON A WATER PURIFIICATION DEVICE DESIGNED TO PROVIDE CONTINUOUS FLOW OF STERILE WATER” by Professor John W Beierle University of Southern California. (2) Water Practices & Technology, Volume 10, no. 1, author Adrian Ponce PhD. JPL/Caltech. (3) CEW report number 2015.0093(A) Karolina Smiech in cooperation Luewton Agostinho (4) CEW report number 2015.0093(B) Karolina Smiech in cooperation Luewton Agostinho (5) Springer, Applied water science, published March 30, 2020 titled: Thermal disinfection of hospital wastewater in a pilot-scale continuous-flow system, authors: K.M.Śmiech, T.Kovács, R. F. Wildschut, A. J. Criado Monleon, B. de Vries- Onclin, J. G. Bowen & L. L. F. Agostinho
- Biotechnology / Bioengineering
- Manufacturing Technology
- Women & Girls
- Pregnant Women
- Infants
- Children & Adolescents
- Elderly
- Rural
- Urban
- Poor
- Low-Income
- Middle-Income
- Refugees & Internally Displaced Persons
- Minorities & Previously Excluded Populations
- Persons with Disabilities
- 3. Good Health and Well-being
- 6. Clean Water and Sanitation
- 9. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
- 10. Reduced Inequality
- Netherlands
- United States
- Netherlands
- United States
THE HOME COUNTERTOP: system is ready for production
A real benefit of the COUNTERTOP system is its portability, allowing for shipments direct to users, packaged weight will be 45 pounds, it requires simple setup with moderate technical skills. Sales promoted through major distributors, i.e., Adeo, Kingfisher, Obi, Bauhaus, Walmart, Home Depot, etc. and the internet, units can be shipped to and set up by individual users or installed by the selling distributors personnel.
SALES PLAN: for the countertop system.
Year one: with three to five salespeople conduct market testing to determine sales strategies, using early-stage production units. Forecast 1,000 units delivered. Year two: engage and train twenty commission only sales staff to use the strategies developed in year one. This is to establish a market presence for the purpose of interesting a major distributor. Emphasis for sales too major world aid organizations and government world improvement projects. Forecast 20,000 units delivered.
Year three: continue direct selling with commission sales staff, adding twenty more commission salespeople making a concerted effort to contract a major Big Box distributor. Use salaried salespeople for distributor liaison and promotions. Set up an internet sales program coordinated with the distributor organization.
Year four: invest in aggressive sales promotion. Engage a specialized sales team to pursue contracts with municipal, state, international government agencies and NGO's . Forecast 100,000 units delivered.
Each day we strive to move one step closer to "safe water for all people"
- For-profit, including B-Corp or similar models
Co- founders two
Engineers three
Factory four
Scientists five
Legal three
JOHN G BOWEN
Inventor & Founder
John began his engineering career in aerospace, as a project engineer and manufacturing manager on the Mercury, Apollo, and LEM Rover Project. Upon leaving aerospace, he went to Japan, which in 1964 was an agrarian society with little manufacturing capacity. He was contracted to design and build a factory to manufacture electric calculators. Then after returning to the United States, he secured a position with Baxter International as an assistant to the President. Doing intellectual property licensing and corporate acquisitions, advancing to the position of Division General Manager of Flint Diagnostics.
In 1972, John was recruited by the Chairman of National Medical Enterprises to create an international hospital company. He formed International Medical Enterprises, growing it from scratch to annual sales of more than 500 million dollars. Under his management, the company built dozens of hospitals in the countries of the United Arab Emirates, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Nigeria while doing healthcare-related business in 18 additional countries.
For the past eleven years, he has been dedicated to the safe water project full time, as an independent inventor. Over a period of 50 years, he has received 22 USA patents on a wide variety of concepts and ideas
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- Financial (e.g. improving accounting practices, pitching to investors)
We are open to any ideas.
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OUR INNOVATION WILL
Eliminate disposable water bottles – prevent illness and death from waterborne diseases – decontaminate pathogen laden effluent from hospitals, nursing homes and labs.
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Emergency, and disaster relief: a self-contained 20-foot shipping container, sterilizer, water storage and bottle-filling unit on site, will produce 100,000 liters of 100% safe water from contaminated sources, that have extreme levels of disease-causing organisms. It will provide drinking water for fifty thousand people.
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