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- EIN 27-1265550
- (503) 681-4457
- 2550 Sw Hillsboro Hwy Hillsboro OR 97123-9379 USA
- www.cleanwaterinstitute.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Environment, Water, Water Resources, Wetlands Conservation & Management
Mission: Clean water institute seeks to advance watershed restoration and resource recovery through innovative strategies and to promote scientific research, education, and environmental protection activities that benefit watersheds around the world. It has the capacity to convene and facilitate projects focused on education, restoration and technological innovation.
Programs: The widespread adaptation of nutrient recovery technologies at wastewater treatment facilities remains a primary goal of the institute. Through commercializing domestically-produced intellectual property, which facilitates the removal and reuse of nutrients from municipal wastewater, the institute hopes to improve watershed health, reduce treatment costs and fund other aspects of its philanthropic mission.
clean water institute manages the marketing and sale of a retail fertilizer product called clean water grow. The plant food includes nutrients recovered from wastewater treatment plants. Through increasing the public's understanding of how resource recovery works with a real product, and demonstrating an economic benefit to treatment plants, the institute hopes to multiply the number of organizations using the technology and expand the environmental benefits of doing so more broadly.
as part of an innovative response to water quality challenges, clean water services (clean water institute's parent public agency) developed a watershed-based permit strategy that satisfies regulatory compliance requirements and maximizes environmental benefits. Among other things, this strategy uses water-quality trading to meet permit obligations. The institute aids other organizations interested in starting their own water- quality trading programs, providing them with hard-won knowledge on its benefits, challenges and how community resources may be leveraged to achieve shared goals.