b'S U S T A I N A B I L I T Y SCOA Signs Agreement to Market ECOVAPs Groundbreaking Water Reduction SolutionsI n December 18, 2020, Sumitomo Corporation of Americas signed a non-exclusive sales agreement with ECOVAP, a leader in advanced water reduction solutions for agricultural, municipal, and industrial users.ECOVAPs patented and patent-pending water technologies provide both sustainable and cost-effective alternatives to conventional water elimination and recovery practices. The companys Evaporative Matrix (EM) is a pio- ECOVAP leverages the principles of biomimicry, neering biomimicry wastewater solution that radicallyfluid dynamics, and aerospace engineering to create improves the sustainability of an operation, reducingan exponential increase in the surface area available environmental risks and complexity. for water-to-air exchange, and constant, gravity-based According to a Statista metric, North America andmovement of water that drives natural convection Europe each produce approximately 67 billion cubicwithin the unit to power the accelerated evaporation meters of wastewater annually, at a rate of 231 cubicprocess.meters per capita in the U.S. Numerous industrialThis unique combination naturally returns the wateroperations, such as mining, take place near diverse andportion of an industrys wastewater stream to the sensitive environments. Their processes can thereforehydrologic cycle while simplifying the recovery of contaminate surrounding ecosystems, including groundcontaminated solids in a catchment for final disposal and surface water quality as well as drinking wateror recycling. This solution is ideal for industries and supply. applications including produced water management, ECOVAP has engineered a sustainable solution thatmining industry tailings pond management andsolves the problem of removing leftover wastewaterremediation, power generation cooling and wastewater from mining, agricultural and oil operations. Theirstreams, solution mining ponds, final remediation of industrial wastewater elimination technology evapo- mining sites, tar sands, and salt recovery, to name a few.rates water at a rate that is nearly 60 times faster thanECOVAP is the ultimate disrupter in this space,conventional evaporation pond surfaces without theproviding innovative solutions that are sorelyuse of external power sources to drive evaporation. needed in industrial wastewater management, said ECOVAPs wastewaterdisposal EMs, made of100% recycled plastic in theform of modular towers, usesun, wind, and gravity-basednatural resources toevaporate wastewater. 14 visions Summer 2021'