Stonehouse Water Technologies Announces Patent Approval for their WaterPOD™ Water Purification System

Stonehouse Water Technologies Announces Patent Approval for their WaterPOD™ Water Purification System

 

Along with the granted design patent, Stonehouse announces the launch of the next generation WaterPOD™, the world’s smallest and smartest on demand water purification system. Depending on the local water quality conditions in your area, the WaterPOD™ can be customized to use 6 or 8 stages in the water purification process. The WaterPOD™ is a self contained water treatment plant that is designed to be an in-home appliance. The water inlet and outlet are conveniently located on the side of the unit making it easy to install. The WaterPOD™ features advanced electronics that monitor water usage, flow rates and sends alerts to the user when the filters need to be changed. Using our breakthrough technology, we provide clean, healthy water on demand to homes, businesses, or communities. At Stonehouse Water Technologies, We Make the Unthinkable Drinkable®.

“Our patented WaterPOD™ is a whole house, on demand water purification system. It’s a mini water treatment plant within your home. Everybody gets car insurance and home insurance – a WaterPOD™ is life insurance for what we put into our bodies every single day.” – Dr. Moe Mukiibi, President/CTO

About Stonehouse Water Technologies, LLC

Stonehouse Water Technologies, headquartered at the Global Water Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is a technology company specializing in water purification. We don’t just have a mission – we are on a mission to provide healthy, clean water to a water stressed world. Since our inception in 2012, we have focused on bringing clean water to more people in more places around the world. Our innovative and patented technologies enable us to make the unthinkable drinkable.

Stonehouse Water Technologies WaterPODs being installed in pilot program

Stonehouse Water Technologies WaterPODs being installed in pilot program

In the basement of the Dominican Center for Women, basil, cucumbers and geraniums are blooming thanks to the fresh water shipped in to the center, which like many other Milwaukee homes, could have lead contaminated water.

“We use the bottled water for the plants because we are trying to grow healthy plants,” said Wesley Landry, garden caretaker and housing specialist for the center.

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Biz Connection Radio Show – Dr. Moe Mukibi and Anne Wick of Stonehouse Water Technologies

Biz Connection Radio Show – Dr. Moe Mukibi and Anne Wick of Stonehouse Water Technologies

Our guests on this week’s Biz Connection Radio Show are Dr. Moe Mukiibi and Anne Wick of Stonehouse Water Technologies.

Dr. Mukiibi and Wick visit with Biz Connection co-hosts Jim Rosetti and Ron Nielsen about the invention of POD (Purified Water on Demand). They discuss what POD is and what its invention means to you as a practical, affordable water purification system that provides healthy drinking water to those experiencing water contamination.

Listen to the Radio Show HERE – Starts at 14:44

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Hero of the Week: Dr. Kyana Young, Marquette University Strategic Innovation Fund

Hero of the Week: Dr. Kyana Young, Marquette University Strategic Innovation Fund

Dr. Kyana Young, a postdoctoral fellow at Marquette University (MU), began working in the Global Water Center in 2016. With a background in environmental engineering, Young’s passion is finding solutions for safe water to improve global and public health. Soon after she arrived, it occurred to her that there was a lack of diverse groups of people represented in the building. But it didn’t take her long to do something about that.

She spoke with staff at Marshall High School and Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS)—including Larry Farris, Toby Hairston, Rochelle Sandrin, Jan Haven and Megan Sun—who helped her come up with an idea for a program that would provide opportunities to demographics that are underrepresented in scientific fields relating to water research.

She applied for a grant from MU with the support of the group at MPS and was awarded the university’s Strategic Innovation Fund Grant. The grant made it possible for her to provide internships to students at Marshall and bring them to the labs of the Global Water Center to do hands-on research. When working in the classroom at the high school, the youth learn how to write lab reports and do data analysis with their teacher, Megan Sun. The students are taught how to apply their newly learned scientific knowledge to solve real world problems.

Each student is assigned a project for the semester by participating companies and universities. Young asked these organizations to host and mentor the youth; organizations such as Stonehouse Water Technologies, Youth Rising Up, Solar Water Works, DRM International, Sun Yat Sen University, Grand Valley State University, Assembly of God, as well as MU. Young knew that the students needed more than community partners; they needed mentors like Moe Mukiibi, chief technology officer at Stonehouse Water Technologies (the company with the most interns in the program), to make the program a success.

The program is meant to “create a path for [students] that could be life-changing, so that they can see why they are working in a lab and see what this can become,” says Mukiibi. “When you provide an opportunity, and you back that up with resources, this is what can happen,” says Young as she describes how the students have excelled far beyond expectations. “This impacts the global community.”

Thanks to Kyana Young, our Hero of the Week, and the team at MPS, these students have a chance to explore their interests and realize career paths that can make a major difference in their lives.

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Stonehouse Water Technologies gears up for first production run Rev Up

Stonehouse Water Technologies gears up for first production run Rev Up

Stonehouse Water Technologies LLC
Leadership: Hensley Foster, president

Headquarters: Milwaukee

What it does: Develops water purification systems

Founded: 2012

Employees: Eight

Next goals: Complete first full-scale manufacturing run for Water Pod 8.

Revenue: Projected 2018: $2.25 million

What if the residents of Waukesha had water filtration systems installed in their homes to correct the city’s water quality issues?

Milwaukee’s Stonehouse Water Technologies LLC has developed a water filtration system for just that purpose, with the tagline: “Making the unthinkable drinkable.” The Water Pod 8 provides a compact whole-house water purification system that can handle as much as 20,000 gallons per day. It eliminates bad odor and taste, destroys 99.9 percent of bacteria and viruses, and reduces heavy metals such as lead.

“We came up with this new design last summer and have been engineering it and testing it,” said president Hensley Foster. “Our whole idea is it’s going to be like an appliance that you put in your house.”

Stonehouse raised a $1.55 million funding round in November, which will help fund manufacturing and inventory of its Water Pod 8. It plans to roll out the product into the new construction, agriculture and private well markets in Wisconsin once it is produced.

One of the first tenants of the Global Water Center in Walker’s Point, Stonehouse credits its growth in part to the collaborative water innovation atmosphere in the building. Foster, a retired engineer, and vice president Anne Wick, a registered nurse, initially focused on developing countries in Africa and Asia. But then they learned there were areas much closer that needed its products.

Kewaunee, Wisconsin is one example right in Stonehouse’s backyard. It became a pilot site for the Pod 8.

“Kewaunee County is a very agricultural county. There are more dairy cattle in the county than humans, so there’s a lot of agricultural runoff, meaning manure. Unfortunately, a lot of that runoff ends up in the water table,” Wick said. “They had to take baths with bottled water for years.”

The pods can be customized depending on a customer’s water quality concerns, and the modular design will allow Stonehouse to add new filters later as they are developed. Stonehouse can remotely monitor their performance.

They are currently being manufactured at Romus Inc. in Roselle, Illinois, and Moldmakers Inc. also makes some of the parts locally. Moldmakers is a division of Germantown-based MGS Mfg. Group, which along with founder Mark Sellers was a lead investor in Stonehouse’s funding round.

Stonehouse plans to introduce at least three new products in 2018: a nitrate removal cartridge, an LED disinfection system and an arsenic removal cartridge for the pod.

“There’s just no way that we’re going to be able to stop global pollution—so we’re just going to have to deal with it,” Foster said.