By Paul Pearce, Hydrosmart
  As the push to find genuine sustainable solutions to water, wastewater and associated soil and environmental problems increases, a simple approach to water conditioning is beginning to be taken seriously because of its consistently good results in many diverse applications. And in the process Hydrosmart is challenging the way many people think about current water treatment methods.
   The Hydrosmart technology has been used to solve previously unsolvable water problems- without filters, membranes or the need of chemicals. Previously users looking for water conditioners have been faced with using either reverse osmosis plants technology or acid, gypsum injection solutions that require ongoing consumable additives.
   d'Arenbergs, Pikes, Haan's, Grant Burge, Berringer Blass, Corriole , Table Grape Growers Australia are just a few of the hundreds of vineyards who are now using this unique water conditioning approach for their businesses. And Golf courses and ovals such as Liverpool Golf in Sydney, Adelaide Oval, Hindmarsh Island Marina, Clare & Willunga Golf Course's in SA, Mosman Park and Palm Grove golf courses in W.A, Rockhampton Showgrounds now use Hydrosmart's resonance frequency approach to overcome their water supply issues.
   As verified in scientific trials, calcium bicarbonate moves from being detrimental to advantageous when it is taken from its large, blocking, crystal format down to its smaller more elemental nature. It becomes a nutrient source instead of a chemical compaction, scale forming, filter blocking problem. In doing this it boosts growth and vigour naturally, while reducing need to dose with calcium additives into the irrigation regime for high bicarbonate hardness bore water users.
   Costs for reverse osmosis often run upwards of hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars. They can be medium to high users of energy and can require environmentally and financially costly chemical pre treatments to stop the filters and membranes from fouling. 		With reverse osmosis, water is split into two streams, one usable, the other a highly concentrated stream of water which can present major environmental issues for disposal.

Reducing algal levels
   Last summer BHP ran trials on a Coal mine dam at Moranbah in Queensland to observe Hydrosmart's ability to reduce levels of algae and blue green algae.
Lesley Chalkley an Environmental scientist, documented increases in dissolved oxygen, decreased turbidity and decreases in algae and Blue Green Algae counts in water treated with Hydrosmart technology.
   For the trial, two Hydromaster 200 ( 8 ") systems were installed within two days next to the coal mine supply dam on its 200 mm pipework. Commissioning the Hydromaster required powering up the computerised water conditioners with a simple flick of a switch. All water passing through the treated pipe then has the highly specific bond breaking frequencies transmitted into it before use as it passed through the field of resonance generated by the processors.
   Water TDS levels fluctuated at around 7,000 ppm over much of the trial period ( peak summer) over ten weeks with varied points of supply with high organic loads and nutrient sources entering from adjoining tailings dam sources.
   More BHP trials are now planned for this coming summer to examine the blue green algae, odour and reduced biomass impacts of the Hydrosmart conditioned dam water.


Hydrosmart systems being installed next to the coal mine's supply dam on 200mm pipework

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