A better way to desalinate inland brackish water.
If your site manages water between 5,000 and 50,000 mg/L TDS, conventional RO and evaporation ponds leave you with brine, disposal costs and capital risk. Desalus funds, builds, owns and operates the treatment — you simply buy back clean water at an attractive rate per thousand gallons, with zero brine and zero waste left behind.
Conventional desalination was built for the sea — not for you.
Seawater RO assumes an ocean to dump brine back into. Inland, there is no ocean. Every liter you can't recover becomes concentrate you have to pond, haul, inject or evaporate — at rising cost and regulatory risk.
- Brine is a liability, not a footnote — disposal, liners, evaporation acreage and permits compound every year.
- Recovery stalls as TDS climbs toward 50,000 mg/L, so you treat the same water twice and still throw value away.
- Scaling, fouling and downtime turn "treatment" into a maintenance budget without volatility.
What "good enough" RO really costs inland
The further you push conventional RO inland, the more it costs to get rid of what it can't recover. Desalus inverts the curve.
The better option isn't a better membrane. It's a better outcome.
Desalus is a full water-treatment service engineered for inland brackish water — Desalus funds, builds and runs it, recovers nearly all the water, and leaves nothing to discard.
99%+ recovery, zero brine
Recover almost every drop and eliminate the reject stream entirely. No ponds, no liners, no hauling, no injection wells.
Lower water cost, zero capital
No capital outlay and no operating burden. Desalus funds, builds and runs everything — you pay only for clean water delivered, at an attractive rate per thousand gallons that beats your current all-in cost.
De-risked compliance
No brine means no brine permit problem. Predictable, zero-liquid-discharge operation that regulators and neighbors welcome.
Built for 5k–50k mg/L
Purpose-engineered for the inland brackish band where alternative designs struggle and recovery normally collapses.
Community & food security
Clean water stays local, and the pure fertilizer Desalus recovers strengthens regional agriculture for generations.
Service, not just steel
Desalus delivers treatment as a service — capitalized, built, operated and maintained around your specific water and volumes.
Right in the band that breaks conventional RO
From mildly brackish groundwater to near-saturation mine and process water, Desalus is designed for 5,000–50,000 mg/L total dissolved solids.
The highlighted band is the Desalus sweet spot — exactly where inland stewards are stranded today.
BetterDesal vs. the status quo
The same influent water, three very different outcomes.
| Outcome | Desalus | Evaporation ponds | Conventional RO |
|---|---|---|---|
| Water recovery | 99%+ | Low — water lost to air | Stalls inland |
| Brine / reject stream | None | Permanent pond | Yes — must be managed |
| Capital you outlay | None — Desalus owns & operates | You fund & build | You fund & build |
| What you pay for | Clean water, per 1,000 gal | Disposal, forever | Power + disposal |
| Regulatory risk | Low — ZLD | High | Rising |
| Your all-in water cost | Lowest & predictable | Highest | High |
From water report to clean water in four steps.
It starts with your numbers. Send Desalus a full-panel water quality and volume report, and you'll get site-specific insight into your clean-water rate and the costs you'll shed.
Start with your water reportShare your full-panel report
Send your water quality and volume data through the Desalus contact form. The richer the panel, the sharper the model.
Get a site-specific model
Desalus quantifies recovery, your clean-water rate per thousand gallons, and the capital and disposal costs you avoid.
Desalus builds & operates it
Desalus capitalizes, installs and runs the KNeW Process, Zix-Zak ion exchange and No-Briner systems around your site — no capex or operating burden for you.
Buy back clean water, waste-free
You purchase clean water at your agreed rate per thousand gallons. Brine never exists, and the recovered salts become fertilizer Desalus markets — which is how your water price stays low.
Raise profit. Eliminate waste. Flourish community.
The award-winning systems behind the Desalus service turn your hardest water into reliable, affordable clean water — with nothing left to waste.
What inland water stewards ask first
Is this for seawater desalination?
No. Desalus is purpose-built for inland brackish water in the 5,000–50,000 mg/L TDS range — mines, municipalities, power and industry that have no ocean to discharge to. Seawater plants assume a brine outfall; inland sites don't have that luxury, which is exactly the problem Desalus solves.
How does the Desalus model work — what do I actually pay?
Desalus capitalizes, builds, owns, operates and maintains the facility. You don't buy equipment or run anything — you simply purchase the clean water Desalus produces, at an attractive rate per thousand gallons. Because Desalus recovers and sells the resulting fertilizer, we can price your water below conventional treat-and-dispose alternatives while leaving zero waste. The fertilizer revenue is Desalus'; your benefit is cheaper water and no liability.
What does "zero waste" actually mean?
There is no brine or reject stream to manage. Over 99% of the water is recovered as clean water, and the dissolved solids are recovered as farm-grade fertilizer that Desalus refines and sells. No evaporation ponds, no disposal liability — true zero-liquid-discharge.
How do you know it will work on my water?
That's what the full-panel water report is for. Send your water quality and volume data to Desalus and you'll receive a site-specific model of recovery, your clean-water rate per thousand gallons, and the capital and disposal costs you avoid — before any commitment.
What do I need to get started?
A full-panel water quality analysis and your volumes. Submit them through the contact form on desalus.com and the Desalus team will return site-specific insights.
See exactly how much better your water can be.
Send Desalus a full-panel water quality and volume report and get site-specific insight into the clean water — and the savings — waiting in the water you already manage.
No obligation. The report drives a site-specific model of recovery, your water rate per thousand gallons, and the costs you avoid.
- Quantified water recovery for your exact TDS and volumes
- Your attractive clean-water rate per thousand gallons
- Avoided brine, pond, disposal and capital costs
- Zero capital outlay — Desalus funds, builds & operates it all