Bench Phase
Water Division Evolution
2017- Vandenberg Dunes Limited Partner’s engineers designed a Cloacina Membrane Bioreactor (MBR) to convert all the human wastewater from the proposed golf resort into irrigation water for the five courses.
2019 - Vandenberg Space Force Base informs Larkin Group Sustainable Solutions (LGSS) that because of drought we need to find a non-groundwater, non-State Water source of water for irrigation. In the draft San Antonio Basin GSP plan GSI recommends investigating using treated oil produced water for irrigation and additional water supplies.
2021- Magna Imperio designed a multi-stacked treatment train built around Reverse Osmosis with additional pre and post treatment to convert produced water into irrigation water.
2021- LGSS introduced to BrightWater HDC.which focused on hydrodynamic cavitation. We did an initial visit and some batch testing at the Codiga Resource Recovery Center at Stanford University.
2022 - MNS Engineers designed a BOD for a Wastewater Reclamation Project to irrigate the golf complex as an alternative to produced water.
2022 - MNS designed a Water Reclamation Facility using produced water for irrigation of the golf complex.
Pilot Phase
2022 - After much research we focused on Hydrodynamic Cavitation with the BrightWater HDC. Following more lab and water sample testing BrightWater HDC presented a proposal for a Pilot Test for the Treatment of Oilfield Produced Water to be conducted on Firefighter Hill on VSFB.
2022 - During our due diligence period on Hydrodynamic Cavitation we became aware of Clark Easter and Global Water Innovations.
2023 - In January Santa Barbara County effectively “shut in” SPR by denying their new trucking permit thus halting operations and postponing our pilot test on Firefighter Hill on VSFB. BrightWater HDC then conducted a pilot by shipping SPR produced water to their site at Twenty-Nine Palms in California.
2023 - The Larkin Group and Global Water Innovations (GWI) form a Teaming Agreement that in part has GWI taking over all pilot testing for both companies.
2024 - GWI determines that in a head-to-head competition AOP is more efficient and cost effective than Hydrodynamic Cavitation so we will now focus on that pretreatment softening technology in our treatment train for all of our combined pilots.
2025 - GWI focuses on 6 upcoming pilots including the Firefighter Hill Pilot which is now back in play.
2026 - The Larkin Group Sustainable Solutions merged its Water Division with Global Water Innovations. Owen Larkin becoming president of GWI with Clark Easter remaining as CEO.
Pilots
Pleasant Valley - Coalinga - brackish groundwate
San Luis Obispo - brine pond evaporation
Trinchero Winery - MBR brine from winery wastewater
Cambria - municipal recycled water
Windset Farms - greenhouse BWRO brine