Treatment Technologies
Filtration · RO · membranes · disinfection · desalination
NewCollaborating with Brine Consulting on desalination, ZLD & brine projects
Post a water treatment project. Meet solution providers. Close the loop.
The water ecosystem that connects industrial buyers with water treatment specialists. Every project matched by our engineers, powered by Nepti.
1,000+
Providers listed
43
Countries
30+
Verified profiles
189
Specialist pages
What are you solving?
Expertise for every water challenge.
Every technology, industry and contaminant has its own page of providers. Browse the groups below, or post your project and we’ll match you to the right experts.
Water Reuse & Recovery
ZLD · industrial reuse · brine · resource recovery
Wastewater & Infrastructure
WWTP · EPC · modular · cooling · sludge
Monitoring & Digital
IoT · SCADA · AI · testing · energy efficiency
Engineering, Consulting & Financing
Consulting · engineering · ESG · feasibility · WaaS
Operations & Support
O&M · emergency response · asset management
By Industry
Textile · F&B · oil & gas · pharma · mining · chemicals
By Challenge
PFAS · heavy metals · COD/BOD · scaling · pathogens
The provider network
Top water treatment experts.
Verified companies delivering recycling, reuse, filtration, sludge management, and industrial water treatment.
The process
From project posted to scoped proposals.
Watch how the matching engine turns delivered references into the right connections, in about a minute.
Step 01
Describe your challenge
Tell us about the project: volume, contaminants, regulations, timeline. 5 minutes.
Step 02
We match & shortlist
Our engineers and Nepti's intelligence engine identify suitable providers from the listed network.
Step 03
Receive proposals
Get tailored technical and commercial proposals. You pick the partner, and we stay alongside.
Talk to our team of experts.
Tell us what you need, and we come back with the right providers.
45 minutes. Free. Nothing gets published.
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Aguato Insider
Field notes from the water industry.
Industry Deep Dives26 min read
Pulp and Paper Wastewater Treatment: Technologies and Compliance
As a mill cuts fresh-water intake from 50 to under 10 m3 per tonne, contaminants concentrate and a plant that worked at high dilution fails. Here is how to treat COD, AOX, and colour through water closure without an exceedance, benchmarked against 12 published pulp and paper treatment cases with real influent and effluent data.
Industry Deep Dives27 min read
Leather and Tanning Wastewater: Treatment Challenges
Mix your tannery streams instead of segregating them and you destroy chromium recovery, create a sulphide hazard, and push toward forced ZLD. Here is the segregation, recovery, and treatment strategy that keeps a tannery compliant, benchmarked against 17 published tannery treatment cases with real influent and effluent data.
Industry Deep Dives22 min read
Textile Wastewater Colour Removal: Costs, Technologies, and the Reuse Decision
Textile dye effluent runs USD 0.40 to 1.80 per m3 to treat for discharge and USD 1.20 to 4.20 per m3 to recover for reuse, and the wrong technology choice locks a dye house into a USD 200,000 to 1.5M lifecycle penalty. This guide benchmarks the decision against 22 published textile treatment cases with real influent and effluent data, from a 100,000 m3/day district works to delivered reuse retrofits.
Industry Deep Dives20 min read
Mining Wastewater Treatment: Technologies, Compliance, and the Closure Liability Few Operators Cost Properly
What separates a mine that treats its water economically from one that leaks money for a century, covering acid mine drainage, cyanide, sulphate, selenium, and the closure liability behind every treatment-train decision, now benchmarked against 14 published mine-water treatment cases with real influent and effluent data.
Industry Deep Dives20 min read
Food & Beverage Water Treatment: Standards and Systems
A single microbial failure on a product-contact surface costs $500,000 to $2 million in recalls and lost contracts. Full CAPEX, OPEX, technology selection, and CIP standards inside, plus the effluent side benchmarked against 107 published food and beverage treatment cases with real influent and effluent data.
Industry Deep Dives16 min read
Food and Beverage Wastewater Treatment: Loads, Trains, and Real Benchmarks
Food and beverage effluent runs about ten times the organic load of municipal sewage and swings hard with the production and sanitation cycle. Here is what 107 real treatment plants across 32 countries actually achieve, the train that works, and the nutrient trap that catches carbon-only plants.
Industry Deep Dives16 min read
Chemical and Petrochemical Wastewater Treatment: Toxicity, Recalcitrance, and Real Benchmarks
Chemical and petrochemical effluent is the most heterogeneous industrial wastewater there is, from under 100 to over 80,000 mg/L COD, often toxic to the biology meant to treat it. Here is what 45 real plants achieve, the train that handles the recalcitrant and toxic fractions, and the salinity and metals biology ignores.
Industry Deep Dives16 min read
Pharmaceutical Wastewater Treatment: High-Strength Effluent, Nitrogen, and the API Question
Pharmaceutical effluent is defined by a huge and variable organic load, from a few hundred to over 20,000 mg/L COD, plus a heavy nitrogen burden. Here is what the published plants achieve, the train that handles the swing, and an honest read of what the data does and does not cover.
Industry Deep Dives15 min read
Landfill Leachate Treatment: Ammonia, the COD Floor, and the Age Problem
Landfill leachate is defined by very high ammonia, a stubborn recalcitrant COD, and a chemistry that shifts as the landfill ages. Here is what 28 real plants achieve, why ammonia usually drives the design, and where biology hits a floor it cannot cross.
Aguato News5 min read
Aguato and Brine Consulting: Complex Water Projects, Scoped by Specialists
Technically challenging desalination, ZLD and brine projects on Aguato can now be reviewed and scoped by Brine Consulting specialists before they reach the market. What changes for project owners and providers.
The Element Book
Every element, and what it does in water.
Occurrence, speciation, treatment role, removal, analysis, published limits and health effects, with balanced equations. Written for the people who have to design around them.
Nepti intelligence engine
Behind every match, an engine.
Nepti Design maps the treatment space. Nepti Diagnose explains why a solution fits. Aguato is the ecosystem. Nepti is why the ecosystem works.
Every run hands back
- P&ID + PFD drawings
- CAPEX and OPEX per m³
- Treatment train
- Predicted effluent quality
- CO₂ and energy intensity
- Matched providers
Ask. The engine answers.
◉ Outcomes, not impressions
Turn water strategy into measurable impact.
Aguato helps industries translate sustainability targets into executable water treatment projects, supported by the right expertise and technology providers, selected with precision.
Network
1,000+
Water technology providers listed
Coverage
189
Specialist pages, one per technology, industry and contaminant
Reach
43
Countries with a listed provider