Unity testing first of its kind water treatment
The town of Unity will soon be the first municipality in Canada to use a water treatment technology so green sewage water becomes clean enough to drink.
The community has partnered with Soneera Water to build a new water treatment facility using Memfree technology – a process to remove pollutants from water sources. Soneera’s CEO Darrell Behan said the new technology is not only greener, but much more cost effective.
“So if you have a tank that has 2,000 gallons of water you would clean that 2,000 gallons of water, drain the tank, clean the electrodes out, then put another 2,000 gallons of water in. It was too expensive, too slow and impractical,” he said.
Behan said companies traditionally use a form of treatment called coagulation, which requires waste particles to settle. With the new system, what once sank; now floats.