Water has become an extremely significant issue in today’s world, with rampant shortages around the globe. Having plenty of fresh drinking and bathing water was once taken for granted. Not so much anymore. The water crisis is the #1 global risk, based on impact to society as a measure of devastation, announced by the World Economic Forum in January 2015 and 67% of the globe will experience water scarcity by 2030. If you have ever said to yourself, “I believe water is the most valuable commodity of all – I just wish I knew the best way to invest in it,” we have the answer for you.

Reliable One Resources is an R &D company with a revolutionary desalination technology utilizing graphene that has shown extreme promise at the lab level in taking seawater to potable water at approximately 1/9th the energy cost of reverse osmosis. Reliable One Resources also has a proprietary frac water and oil/water treatment technology that is capable of purifying the produced water (the water that comes out alongside a barrel of oil or cubic meter of natural gas) and the frac water from oil and natural gas drilling. Many folks may not realize that over 1 trillion gallons of water is irretrievably lost out of the potable cycle each year by putting this produced and frac water back into the ground. For the last 120 years, if you wanted to take oil or natural gas out of the ground you had to put the contaminated water back into the ground under pressure into what is known as a disposal well.

Putting contaminated water back into the ground into disposal wells has not come without its consequences. In 2016 the United states Geological Survey, the Oklahoma Geological Survey, the University of Colorado and, Stanford University all put out research reports that stated that the cause of the increase in seismic activity and earthquakes in Oklahoma were not the result of fracking operations per se, but from putting the produced water from oil and natural gas wells into the ground under pressure. Oklahoma experienced over 3,000 temblors, tremors and earthquakes in 30 months. A magnitude 5.9 earthquake hit just northwest of Cushing, OK (the major storage hub for oil and natural gas in the U.S.) in November of 2016, prompting Governor Mary Fallin to shut down over 650 disposal wells in Cushing, Velma and, Oklahoma City. Governor Fallin went on to say that if that 5.9 quake had been any closer to Cushing it would have breached the natural gas pipelines and oil storage containers, resulting in a matter of national security.

Similarly, putting produced water and frac water back into the ground into the Marcellus Shale formation in Pennsylvania has prompted the state, which has 17,456 predominately natural gas and some oil wells, to shut down all but two of the disposal wells in that state due to the pervasive contamination of Pennsylvania’s groundwater and aquifers. The shutting down of these disposal wells for environmental and safety reasons was obviously necessary; however, it has put tremendous financial pressure on the oil and natural gas drillers that now having to transport their produced water to disposal wells  farther away.

Many people have said that if the United States can send rockets to other planets, they should be able to figure out how to not contaminate their groundwater with produced water. Well, we can. The reason that most people are unaware of and why it has been so difficult to purify this water in Pennsylvania (instead of having to put it in the ground) is that this water is approximately 10 times saltier than sea water. Seawater is 34,000 parts per million in Total Dissolved Solids. The produced water in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale is 330,000 parts per million. Current technologies, including reverse osmosis, wastewater treatment systems, or membrane technologies all foul out when dealing with water that is saltier than seawater. There is, however, one technology currently that is robust enough to deal with water that is this salty — crystal fractionalization. Crystal fractionalization is, however, inordinately expensive (approximately $10.10 per barrel) because it relies on massive thermal energy and kilowatt intensity to flash off the volumes of water in question and it can also leave the leftover salt with residual contamination.

Reliable One Resources has a proprietary treatment technology that is able to purify this produced water at a fraction of the cost of crystal fractionalization and also get the water down to what is called dischargeable levels. Dischargeable level is the level at which the water is clean enough to give to a farmer to put on his crops or even to release into a stream. The salt left over from Reliable’s process is clean enough to sell to salt distributors that sell it for use as a traction control product to be put down on roads in the Northern States during winter.

Since the drillers in Pennsylvania currently have to transport their produced water via truck to disposal wells in Ohio, it is estimated by the EPA that Pennsylvania drillers are incurring between $7.50-16.50 per barrel (including the tipping fees and transport cost) just to dispose of a barrel of produced water.

Reliable One Resources now has a full funding commitment letter from a very well capitalized Midwest bank to put up its first four recycling plants. These plants will recycle the produced and frac water. The plant will also sell the treated water back to the drillers with the same water chemistry as their bore hole that they will use to redrill and frac with. The latest research shows that when drillers redrill and frac with water that is the same chemistry as their well bore, they can expect a 15-25% better hydrocarbon yield than if they simply use water from a river.

Reliable’s new technology is a win/win/win. The environment will be a winner as this technology will prevent produced and frac water from ever having to be deep-well injected again. The drillers are winners because they can bring their contaminated water to Reliable’s recycling plant much less expensively than transporting it across state lines to disposal wells. and Reliable and its investors will be winners because Reliable has such a small stock float and its recycling plants will be very profitable.

Visit us at Booth 310/312 at FreedomFest, “the world’s largest gathering of free minds,” to learn more about this great opportunity to help the planet, reduce energy costs, and improve your investment portfolio. For tickets go to 2018.freedomfest.com or call 1-855-850-3733 ext 202, and use code VOICE100 to save $100 off the retail price.