Good luck. As far as your comment on innovation, there is plenty of innovation going on in the industry, though it's split between developed country solutions and developing country solutions. Wisconsin is a hot bed of water innovation for the developed country solutions, see thewatercouncil.com. The Gates Foundation is one of the more famous, large investors for water innovation in the developing world.  Also, as you know, you won't find a Silicon Valley in terms of amount of funding available because there isn't the same potential for return on investment for creating a technology to deliver clean drinking water or sanitation to developing countries as there is in making an app.

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Good luck. As far as your comment on innovation, there is plenty of innovation going on in the industry, though it's split between developed country solutions and developing country solutions. Wisconsin is a hot bed of water innovation for the developed country solutions, see thewatercouncil.com. The Gates Foundation is one of the more famous, large investors for water innovation in the developing world. 

Also, as you know, you won't find a Silicon Valley in terms of amount of funding available because there isn't the same potential for return on investment for creating a technology to deliver clean drinking water or sanitation to developing countries as there is in making an app.

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Finally looked up your Aguagen ISI technology. Having AD first will definitely help the overall energy demand associated with treatment, of course, in a typical municipal application, this should include screening, grit removal and likely flow equalization upstream of the digesters, not to mention thickening, to keep the CAPEX and OPEX down. 

Photosynthetic algae are very promising, however, some of the issues holding back the economics of full scale algae reactors is the efficient phase separation (removing the algae from the final effluent), the space requirements (footprint) for treating large flows, and a need for a light source to treat flows around the clock. There are other types of algae systems (phagotrophic for example), that are being introduced as well. Good luck with the Aquagen system, I believe algae will be a key technology for treatment of wastewater in the (hopefully near) future. 

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I agree about the silos and that being the problem. These silos are trying to be addressed in the developed world, but as you can imagine, generations of institutions being built within these silos makes it challenging to integrate. That doesn't mean it isn't something that must be done, I'm just addressing the reality that developed countries that have decades and trillions of dollars invested in these silo assets and institutions aren't going to tear them down, instead they are trying to bridge the gap between these silos, and coordinate. This is inefficient and not optimal, but it's the only realistic near term solution in developed countries. Developing countries however should be incorporating systems that address water, energy, data and communications together...we now know better and the (relatively) blank canvas of developing countries should use these best practices. 

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Brian, do you have a website for this Center for Planetary Restoration I can peruse?

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The problem is inherent in this discussion.  The discussion is a prefect example of the dysfunctional dynamic.  We view the "water" industry as a separate world than the other utility functions where they are just a utility of a different resource.  The industry evolved in a "silo" which prevents convergent utility planning and efficiency.  And we have just perpetuated the dysfunctional dynamic.   Yet our communities around the world are struggling to deal with wastewater, energy, data and communications and water and our industry consultants are as fragmented as the matrix because that is the way it had always been done,  We cannot afford this any longer, in particular in the developing world.   On Cape Cod, we have developed the worlds first fully integrated sustainable utility infrastructure system, as a value proposition in our algae based convergent utility based planetary restoration system.   We cannot stay with the fragmented model if we are to progress as a society and prevent a planetary crisis that is looming in the not very distant future.    It's not just about the water, it's about the future and the sustainability of our communities and villages.  If we do not grasp the need for integrated holistic solutions on a planetary basis, we are doomed.    This is the purpose of the Aquagen ISI technology.  We on Cape Cod are bringing about a Center for Planetary Restoration in South Yarmouth, Massachusetts to help people learn how to do this.   

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