Founded in 2005Employing a unique business model and a technical paradigm with the potential to fundamentally change the perceived water balance, EarthWater Global draws on data generated from a variety of uses technologies, developed for and used by familiar to the oil and gas industry, industries to locate and develop renewable, previously overlooked groundwater resources on a low-cost. In his book, zero-risk“Modern Groundwater Exploration”, and fully financed basis. EarthWater's company President, Robert A. Bisson, has produced and demonstrated details a revolutionary concept of how fresh water is transmitted freshwater transmission through tectonic fractures and collection in ‘Megawatersheds’: bedrock and stored in "Megawatersheds"fractures formed by millennia of plate tectonics activity. Previously overlooked and naturally rechargedOver time, water flowing through these fractures erodes the rock, Megawatersheds creating sizeable pathways that may extend from tens to thousands of kilometers . The resources are massive: feasibility studies and are immune to evaporationcase work with organizations including USAID, surface contamination and silt. EarthWater possesses the capability to develop these resources fasterNASA, cheaperUSDOE, and more efficiently than conventional water supply alternatives (damsOFDA suggest that, desalinationif implemented globally, etc.) and can the Megawatershed Paradigm could expand upon the existing volumes of presumed accessible, known sustainable groundwater resources by 10 to 100 times. Some wonder how the water has been ignored for so long. Conventional hydrology both under-measures precipitation at high-altitude and fails to include crustal permeability in the freshwater balance. As a multiple result, present day estimates of 10 sustainable groundwater capacity are too low. The benefits for global health and development are obvious. EarthWater’s solution is capable of providing potable water when and where it is needed most. The company assumes all upfront capital risk and then delivers water at a service rate that is highly competitive to 100x globally; initial feasibility studies indicate that Megawatersheds can be found on every continentalternatives. EarthWater's solution leaves Wells have little to no environmental footprint, and low land requirements (each requiring just 1/10th 20th of a hectare. And, unlike traditional point-source solutions, EarthWater is able to site its wells at or near the point of an acre per million gallon well) allow for demand. This is highly unusual in the water community: rarely can a country’s demographics determine sites of production. This may all sound too good to be true. Officials at the US Geological Survey contend that water found in the bedrock is simply “relic groundwater” left over from previous climactic periods, and that EarthWater may be drawing from existing, known resources. But isotopic testing developed at the prestigious Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, which identifies the placement chemical fingerprint of wells groundwater resources in order to reveal age and around those areas where origin, proves that Megawatershed water is needed the mostseparate from and additive to known supplies.
== Trinidad and Tobago ==
== Africa ==
Over the last three decades, Bisson has proven his ability to develop large quantities of water in areas of the world previously perceived to be water-constrained. In 1984, USAID and the UN Refugee Agency called in Bisson’s team to a climate very different from that of Trinidad and Tobago. At the time, drought and conflict in Somalia spawned aggravated acute famine and rampant cholera. USAID , and the UNCHR called in Bisson’s team to improve upon failed previous efforts to develop significant quantities of groundwater in the country’s Westhad failed. Before the project was terminated by civil war, the team identified resources capable of producing over 20 million gallons per 76,000 m3/day of groundwater capacity and developed wells delivering 2 million gallons per 7,600 m3/day to those in need. Three years later, USAID again hired Bisson to develop water in Sudan. And although the State Department halted the drilling of production wells after the coup d’etat in 1989, the team discovered identified more than 10 million gallons per 38,000 m3/day of new capacityin deep bedrock fracture zones.
== Awards and Affiliations ==