Filter system to extract selective minerals from water then bind these minerals into a medium that can be added to fertilizer
a serious of specially designed chemically reactive filters remove specifically targeted minerals from water and bind them into chitosan beats which can be added to fertilizer products as a slow release fertilizer additive. This technology is designed to control the high nutrient agricultural runoff entering watercourses.
The advantage of this technology is that it is closed loop in that the materials harvested from the water can be used upstream to fertilize agricultural land from which it originated. There is no collateral waste material that must be disposed of as a waste product.
With high intensity farming this technology could control the amount of surplus nutrients and train and accumulating in watercourses.
The risk of this technology is changing the balance of nutrients within watercourses creating high concentrations in of other materials not considered earlier.