Water resource recovery facilities for inland brackish stewards.
If your mine, municipality or plant manages water between 5,000 and 50,000 mg/L TDS, that "waste" stream is a resource waiting to be recovered. Desalus funds, builds, owns and operates the resource recovery facility on-site — you simply buy back clean water at an attractive rate per thousand gallons, with zero brine and zero waste left behind.
You're paying to dispose of a resource you could be recovering.
Inland, there is no ocean to send concentrate back to. Every liter conventional treatment can't recover becomes brine you have to pond, haul, inject or evaporate — and every pound of dissolved solids you throw away is fertilizer you paid to bury.
- Brine is a liability, not a footnote — disposal, liners, evaporation acreage and permits compound every year.
- Recovery stalls as TDS climbs toward 50,000 mg/L, so you treat the same water twice and still throw value away.
- Scaling, fouling and downtime turn "treatment" into a maintenance budget without volatility.
What "good enough" RO really costs inland
The further you push conventional RO inland, the more it costs to get rid of what it can't recover. A Desalus recovery facility inverts the curve.
A resource recovery facility, delivered as a service.
Desalus is a full water resource recovery service engineered for inland brackish water — Desalus funds, builds and runs the facility, recovers nearly all the water, and leaves nothing to discard.
99%+ recovery, zero brine
Recover almost every drop and eliminate the reject stream entirely. No ponds, no liners, no hauling, no injection wells.
Lower water cost, zero capital
No capital outlay and no operating burden. Desalus funds, builds and runs the facility — you pay only for clean water delivered, at an attractive rate per thousand gallons that beats your current all-in cost.
De-risked compliance
No brine means no brine permit problem. Predictable, zero-liquid-discharge operation that regulators and neighbors welcome.
Built for 5k–50k mg/L
Purpose-engineered for the inland brackish band where alternative designs struggle and recovery normally collapses.
Community & food security
Clean water stays local, and the pure fertilizer Desalus recovers strengthens regional agriculture for generations.
Turnkey facility, on your site
Desalus delivers the recovery facility as a service — capitalized, built, operated and maintained around your specific water and volumes.
Right in the band that breaks conventional RO
From mildly brackish groundwater to near-saturation mine and process water, Desalus recovery facilities are designed for 5,000–50,000 mg/L total dissolved solids.
The highlighted band is the Desalus sweet spot — exactly where inland stewards are stranded today.
Resource recovery vs. the status quo
The same influent water, three very different outcomes.
| Outcome | Desalus | Evaporation ponds | Conventional RO |
|---|---|---|---|
| Water recovery | 99%+ | Low — water lost to air | Stalls inland |
| Brine / reject stream | None | Permanent pond | Yes — must be managed |
| Capital you outlay | None — Desalus owns & operates | You fund & build | You fund & build |
| What you pay for | Clean water, per 1,000 gal | Disposal, forever | Power + disposal |
| Dissolved solids | Recovered as fertilizer | Buried in the pond | Concentrated waste |
| Your all-in water cost | Lowest & predictable | Highest | High |
From water report to a recovery facility in four steps.
It starts with your numbers. Send Desalus a full-panel water quality and volume report, and you'll get site-specific insight into your clean-water rate and the costs you'll shed.
Start with your water reportShare your full-panel report
Send your water quality and volume data through the Desalus contact form. The richer the panel, the sharper the model.
Get a site-specific model
Desalus quantifies recovery, your clean-water rate per thousand gallons, and the capital and disposal costs you avoid.
Desalus builds & operates the facility
Desalus capitalizes, installs and runs the KNeW Process, Zix-Zak ion exchange and No-Briner systems on your site — no capex or operating burden for you.
Buy back clean water, waste-free
You purchase clean water at your agreed rate per thousand gallons. Brine never exists, and the recovered salts become fertilizer Desalus markets — which is how your water price stays low.
Raise profit. Eliminate waste. Flourish community.
A Desalus resource recovery facility turns your hardest water into reliable, affordable clean water — and builds water and food security for generations to come, with nothing left to waste.
What inland water stewards ask first
What is a water resource recovery facility?
It's an on-site treatment plant that recovers the value from your brackish water instead of disposing of it. Over 99% of the water is returned as clean water, and the dissolved solids are recovered as farm-grade fertilizer — with no brine or reject stream. Desalus funds, builds, owns and operates it for you.
Is this for seawater desalination?
No. Desalus is purpose-built for inland brackish water in the 5,000–50,000 mg/L TDS range — mines, municipalities, power and industry that have no ocean to discharge to. Seawater plants assume a brine outfall; inland sites don't have that luxury, which is exactly the problem Desalus solves.
How does the Desalus model work — what do I actually pay?
Desalus capitalizes, builds, owns, operates and maintains the facility. You don't buy equipment or run anything — you simply purchase the clean water Desalus produces, at an attractive rate per thousand gallons. Because Desalus recovers and sells the resulting fertilizer, we can price your water below conventional treat-and-dispose alternatives while leaving zero waste. The fertilizer revenue is Desalus'; your benefit is cheaper water and no liability.
What does "zero waste" actually mean?
There is no brine or reject stream to manage. Over 99% of the water is recovered as clean water, and the dissolved solids are recovered as farm-grade fertilizer that Desalus refines and sells. No evaporation ponds, no disposal liability — true zero-liquid-discharge.
What do I need to get started?
A full-panel water quality analysis and your volumes. Submit them through the contact form on desalus.com and the Desalus team will return site-specific insights into how much a recovery facility can help your operation.
See exactly how much you could recover.
Send Desalus a full-panel water quality and volume report and get site-specific insight into the clean water — and the savings — waiting in the water you already manage.
No obligation. The report drives a site-specific model of recovery, your water rate per thousand gallons, and the costs you avoid.
- Quantified water recovery for your exact TDS and volumes
- Your attractive clean-water rate per thousand gallons
- Avoided brine, pond, disposal and capital costs
- Zero capital outlay — Desalus funds, builds & operates the facility