Stop disposing of your water. Start mining it.
Hard, brackish, "too salty to bother with" water isn't waste — it's an unworked seam. If your site runs water between 5,000 and 50,000 mg/L TDS, Desalus funds, builds, owns and operates the extraction — you simply buy back clean water at an attractive rate per thousand gallons, with zero brine left behind. Desalus recovers and sells the farm-grade fertilizer, which is what keeps your water price low. This is what it means to be a water miner.
Everyone treats hard water as something to get rid of. That's the mistake.
A miner doesn't dump the ore because it's hard to process — they extract the value. Yet across mines, municipalities and industry, brackish and high-TDS water is ponded, hauled, injected or evaporated. You're paying, at rising cost, to throw away a resource you already own.
- Disposal is a sunk cost — liners, ponds, hauling, injection and permits compound year over year with nothing to show for it.
- Conventional RO quits early as TDS climbs toward 50,000 mg/L, leaving most of the value in the reject stream.
- The value walks away — clean water and recoverable salts both leave the site as someone else's problem.
Disposal cost up, value recovered down
The harder your water, the more you pay to discard it. Water miners flip that — the harder the water, the richer the seam.
Mining isn't a metaphor here. It's a smarter way to handle your water.
Desalus is a full water-treatment service built for inland brackish water — Desalus funds, builds and runs it, recovering nearly all the water and pulling pure fertilizer out of what everyone else discards. WaterMiners is the identity for the stewards who refuse to call hard water waste.
99%+ recovery, zero brine
Extract 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 whole seam — 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 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.
Commodity-agnostic
Mine, municipality or factory — if your water is hard and inland, the same extraction logic turns it into affordable clean water with nothing left to waste.
Service, not just steel
Desalus delivers treatment as a service — engineered, operated and optimized around your specific water and volumes.
The grade of water others abandon is exactly what we work
From mildly brackish groundwater to near-saturation mine and process water, Desalus is engineered for 5,000–50,000 mg/L total dissolved solids — the band conventional RO can't profitably touch.
The highlighted band is the Desalus sweet spot — exactly the seam inland stewards are stranded on today.
Mining your water vs. disposing of it
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 |
| Land & liner footprint | Minimal | Large & growing | Moderate |
| 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 |
| Regulatory risk | Low — ZLD | High | Rising |
| Your all-in water cost | Lowest & predictable | Highest | High |
From water report to clean water in four steps.
It starts with your assay — your water 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 once the seam is worked.
Start with your water reportShare your full-panel report
Send your water quality and volume data through the Desalus contact form. The richer the assay, 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 it
Desalus capitalizes, installs and runs the KNeW Process, Zix-Zak ion exchange and No-Briner systems around 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.
The award-winning systems behind the Desalus service turn your hardest water into reliable, affordable clean water — the seam nobody else thought to work, with nothing left to waste.
What water miners ask first
What does "mining" water actually mean?
It means treating your hard, brackish water as a resource to work rather than a waste to dispose of. Desalus recovers over 99% of it as clean water and pulls the dissolved salts out as farm-grade fertilizer — eliminating the disposal stream you were paying to get rid of. Desalus funds, builds and operates it all; you simply buy back the clean water.
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 extracts, 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.
Is this for seawater?
No. WaterMiners is powered by Desalus, which is purpose-built for inland brackish water in the 5,000–50,000 mg/L TDS range — mines, municipalities, power and industry with no ocean to discharge to. That inland constraint is exactly where the opportunity lives.
Does the same approach work for a mine, a city and a factory?
Yes — it's commodity-agnostic. Whether you're a copper-mine water manager, a municipal utility director or an industrial plant, if your water is inland and high-TDS, the same extraction logic recovers clean water and fertilizer from it.
How do I find out what my water is worth?
Send Desalus a full-panel water quality and volume report through the contact form. You'll get a site-specific model of recovery, your clean-water rate per thousand gallons, and the capital and disposal costs you avoid — your water's assay, before any commitment.
Find out how affordable your water becomes once you mine it.
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 it all