# IX Power Clean Water Inc

Recycling unconventional waters and industrial wastewater to protect American agriculture.

## Elevator pitch
We build, sell, and now use machines to treat industrial wastewater, providing much-needed new water to water stressed regions — at a cost of 50% or less than conventional methods.

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- Last updated: 2026-06-08T05:01:07Z
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## Quick facts
- $280 billion annual global market in need of a solution. $12 million WIP, $30 million sales funnel.
- 💧 Trillions of gallons of water that should be treated and used instead of using freshwater.
- 👷‍♀️ Experienced team with 25+ years in commercializing Department of Energy innovations.
- Leveraging patented technology developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory & other Fed labs & uni's
- 🌲 Environmentally friendly proprietary technology cuts current costs by 50% or more.
- Raised ~$2 million on StartEngine to add to ~$2.5million by founders and accredited investors.

## Active fundraises
- wefunder:fundraise:66537: 506(b) successful (USD)
- wefunder:fundraise:66534: 4(a)(6) successful (USD)

## Story
OUR STORYIX Water is helping solve the global water crisis. IX Water machines treat unconventional and waste waters from groundwater, industry, mining, landfills, and hydrocarbon recovery. This provides more water exactly where it is needed, and helps industry dramatically lower the cost of dealing with their wastewater.We Sell Water Treatment MachinesEach year trillions of gallons of water go to waste because it’s too contaminated to be used for much of anything. This includes water generated from oil & gas wells, as well as wastewater from manufacturing, industry, refining, and urban runoff. Leveraging tech licensed from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the University of Texas, we manufacture machines to treat that wastewater at a fraction of the cost of other methods—making recycling industrial wastewater a reality.Our competitive advantage is a set of cold reactors that utilize a series of unique filtration media that can be recharged in the field and used hundreds of times before replacing the media. This saves our users 50% or  more on the cost of dealing with their wastewater.We Treat & Recycle Water as a ServiceIn addition to building and selling IX Water Machines, we’re forming a new service division to treat wastewater at the source. IX Water Reclamation is launching in Kern County, California—home to one of the biggest agricultural centers on the planet, but also suffering through the worst drought in 1,200 years.California produces roughly one third of America's vegetables and two thirds of the country's fruits and nuts. The central valley alone produces more than 8% of America's entire agricultural output by value and produces roughly a quarter of the nation's supply of food. More than 250 different kinds of crops are grown by farmers in California THE PROBLEMOil & Gas, manufacturing, and industry produces tons of unusable water, but up until now it has been expensive to treat & difficult to dispose of.The process of mining for oil and gas leaves behind incredible amounts of water. This water, due to its contamination with toxic pollutants such as heavy metals, hydrocarbons, and sulfur compounds, is useless and presents companies with the expensive and energy-intensive task of disposing of the wastewater.As much as 99% of what an oil well brings to the surface is this "produced water."Manufacturing and industrial processes also generate similarly contaminated wastewater. Current methods of disposal include deep well injections and open pit evaporation, both of which are very expensive, land intensive, and can cause environmental damage, as well as other costly and energy-intensive approaches.Traditional industrial water evaporation pit, used to separate sludge from water.THE SOLUTIONIX Water has created a way to recycle this contaminated water.We've developed machinery to treat water that is at least 50% less expensive than other methods or of disposal. With the enormous amount of industrial wastewater in front of us, we believe our cost-effective and environmentally friendly solution will be a market winner. On top of all of this... we're hoping to keep this leg up because our technology is already patented. THE MARKET$280 billion annual market opportunityIn 2021, the global oil & gas and industrial process community generated a $280 billion per year problem: their wastewater. OUR TRACTIONPatents acquired and first purchases received!The technology was invented by scientists and engineers at the world-renowned Los Alamos National Laboratory in a unique collaboration with the University of Texas and New Mexico Tech, and then productized and commercially tested by the IX-Force.After acquiring our patents, we spent years designing, developing, and testing our commercial products. We’ve won multiple grants and competitions in the startup and produced water worlds, and after validating our product with industry, we began our commercial sales program in the summer of 2019. Since then we’ve received initial orders, begun the services division, and made strides in the industrial and oil and gas spaces by landing key partners in the industry.IX Water portable demonstration units (1/5th scale) WHAT WE DOWe make recycling produced water both economically and environmentally feasibleWe manufacture and sell multiple products predicated on our proprietary technology. Our systems remove 99.81% of all contaminants from water (meeting US EPA, European Union, and Chinese regulations standards) at less than 50% of the cost of traditional treatment methods — all the while minimizing waste.The proof is plain to seeBelow is a chart showing a typical IX Water pre and post treatment analysis.IX Water does the job!THE BUSINESS MODELSale of Treatment MachinesGas and Oil, manufacturing, and industrial process companies buy our machinesEach one of our modules costs from $200,00 to $450,000, and can be connected in a system with up to 25 modules — meaning sales can range up to $12 million per order.We also generate revenue through the sale of replacement products and maintenance of our machines.Those same customers can now have IX Water Reclamation treat and recycle their waterOur new service division is starting out in Bakersfield, California to service Kern County.IX Water Reclamation is created to meet the following objectives:· Operate IX Water wastewater treatment systems as a service for industry and charge for treatment of unconventional sources of water on a volume basis.· Provide a showcase for IX Water wastewater treatment systems.· Provide immediate and on-going revenue to the Company.· Enable a new source of water for agriculture.· Provide a model for how unconventional sources of water can be treated and deployed to water stressed regions around the world.Initial Location for IX Water ReclamationThe initial location of the Reclamation division will be in Bakersfield, California to serve the Southern Central (San Joaquin) Valley, including Kern County.Kern County is home to $8 billion of annual agricultural production and 119 million bbl (42 gallon barrels) of oil and 129 billion CF (cubic feet) of gas annually from some 47,750 wells. The oil wells in the region are in many cases integrated within farm acreage or in a nearby field, providing a natural place to discharge treated oil & gas produced water.Tens of thousands acres of farmland amidst tens of thousands of water producing oil wells.OUR PROJECTIONSManagement has taken a conservative approach to our operating plan.Given the very large market for our products, sales projections take into account many factors. This includes the size of the market, geographic proximity of targeted customers, the number of IX Water machines that can be built using existing our resources, supply chain, and sub-contracting capabilities, the number of units that can be reasonably sold per salesperson per year, and the “contact to contract” steps and time required.The use of authorized representatives, marketing partners, as well as formal manufacturers' reps provides IX Water with a “force multiplier” for its internal sales team and marketing efforts, greatly expanding our ability to sell our products world-wide.Overhead may appear low, but that is because Management includes the cost of manufacturing labor in Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) given our “just in time” manufacturing model.IX Water product manufacturing relies on many out-sourced components. These include reactor casks, pumps, piping, as well as control and monitoring software and hardware. The Company has a supply chain where at least two sources within each geographic market can supply our components and raw materials.Adequate cash flow is achieved because industrial customers are used to paying 50% of the cost of such products as a down payment, and international customers normally provide a letter of credit through an internationally recognized bank with which IX Water’s bank can determine credit-worthiness and milestone-based payments.Below is the updated four-year projected business plan, commencing 1 December, 2022 (see the section of Offering Memorandum included in the Form C titled "The Company and its Business: Updated Projected Operating Plan").**For the above chart, please see the forward-looking statements disclosure in Part I of Addendum 1 to the Offering Memorandum included in the Company's Form C. HOW WE ARE DIFFERENTWe reduce the complexity of traditional water treatment while lowering the costWe believe that traditional water and sewage treatment methods just don’t cut it when it comes to industrial wastewater. Large construction and service firms have been trying to solve the problem of oil & gas produced water for years, and in our opinion they have failed. The reason these other companies have failed in our view is because they bring to bear traditional water treatment tech — lots of land, chemicals, additives, and old fashioned methods. In fact, some of our competitors literally bid plant cost based on how much concrete they can pour, and how many of their people they can sell to operate the plant.IX Water is different. Our machines provide real-time treatment in a modular fashion, that integrates with existing equipment, are easily scaled, and can be operated by a single person.Our systems are much cheaper to buy and operate, and leave a dramatically less amount of waste than our competitors. We Use our Own ProductsIn addition to IX Water Reclamation, as part of our commercial testing and product refinement, we processed millions of gallons of water at a facility near Denver. The water intake was the nastiest produced and industrial water imaginable.IX Water machines worked at such a high efficiency and efficacy that we secured a permit to put the treated water back into the South Platte River Basin.THE VISIONOnce the industry catches wind of us, there won’t be another choiceSince we believe our product to be superior to our competitors on both the grounds of environmental sustainability and economic efficiency, we believe we will become the default choice for produced water treatment of companies within the gas and oil extraction industry. OUR TEAMWe know how to solve big problemsOur team has over 25 years of success commercializing Department of Energy innovations.We are a group of innovators with experience commercializing solutions for some of the world’s most intimidating problems, such as pandemic modeling and safer nuclear reactors.The original lead inventor of our tech, Dr. Jeri Sullivan, remains on board as well. Dr. Sullivan is a giant in the wastewater management field, and her expertise and experience are considered world class. WHY INVESTJoin us in the marriage between economic efficiency and environmental sustainabilityWe know that the best way to create real change in the way our private industries handle the environment is to make the sustainable solution the only economically viable choice. That is what we have done with IX Water.You should invest in IX Water if you believe that we need to protect our planet, and one way to do that is through innovative and economically feasible market solutions.MEET OUR TEAMJohn R. (Grizz) Deal, CEODirector, Executive Chairman & Chief Executive OfficerJohn R. (Grizz) Deal has nearly thirty years of experience in technology commercialization, tech-based startups, fast-growing ventures, and product development.Grizz was CEO and a co-founder of Hyperion Power Generation, a Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) spinout developing a Small Modular Reactor (SMR). He has also served as the chief marketing officer for Space Imaging and was the founder and CEO of LizardTech, one of the more successful LANL spinouts. Additionally, Grizz has served as Entrepreneur in Residence for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) at Technology Ventures Corporation and as Visiting entrepreneur at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Grizz founded seven firms based on U.S. DOE technologies and holds graduate and undergraduate science degrees in geography from Texas A&M University.Grizz is on the Board of the Riga Innovation Centre (RIC) in Latvia, the former Product Development Sensei for GVA Launch Gurus in Russia and Kazakhstan, a former adjunct faculty member at the Moscow School of Management Skolkovo, a member of the Texas A&M University College of Geosciences Advisory Council, a Mentor at the University of Northern Colorado BizHub Collaborative, and a Steering Committee member of the JeffCo Energy Action Project.An Eagle Scout, Grizz spent nine summers working at Philmont Scout Ranch in Northern New Mexico as a guide and conservationist.Grizz is a frequent speaker and writer on energy technology and policy, product development, starting and growing advanced technology-based ventures, and issues in raising capital for such ventures.Grizz is full time with IX Water.Randall WilsonDirector & Chief Financial OfficerRandall Wilson is one of two key founders and was Chief Financial Officer/Chief Operating Officer of Technology Ventures Corporation (TVC), a private foundation funded by Lockheed Martin Corporation to commercialize national laboratory-developed technologies. He was instrumental in growing the business from a single-site, five-person enterprise into a multi-site, multi-funded operation with more than 40 employees. He served in this capacity from 1993 to 2011 and remains active in the technology commercialization community.In addition to his work at IX Power, Mr. Wilson serves as the CFO and Secretary/Treasurer of the Sandia Science & Technology Park Development Corporation, chair of the Sandia Science & Technology Park Tenant Association, and Treasurer of the New Mexico Angels (a private investment group).Mr. Wilson was named a Top Performing CFO by the NM Business Weekly and served on New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson’s Business Advisory Council. A graduate of Emory University, he also holds a Master’s in Business Administration from Rollins College, and has completed numerous C-level professional development courses.Randy works mostly at IX Water until Company development requires his full-time attention.Deborah Deal-Blackwell, APR Vice President and Chief Marketing OfficerMs. Deal-Blackwell serves as the Vice President of Marketing for IX Power Clean Water and as the CEO of the IX Power Foundation. The sibling Deals have worked together as founders and executives of several firms over the last 20 years.Before IX Power, Deborah co-founded Hyperion Power Generation. She served as the V.P. of Marketing & Public Relations for the company and as the top executive in Hyperion’s Washington, D.C. office directed interaction with the U.S. Congress and all other federal agencies. Prior to Hyperion, she served as the CEO of the medical transportation charity Angel Flight Southeast, and before that worked around the globe as a marketing executive in the computer software, real estate, and hospitality industries. Her degrees in journalism-public relations and radio-TV were earned at the University of Central Florida. She is an accredited public relations specialist (APR) and member of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA).Deborah the founder and chair of the annual “Jeffco International Women’s Day” celebration, Vice President of the Foothills Art Center, and Chair of the Jeffco Library Foundation’s “Whale of a Used Book Sale.” She is also a graduate of the Leadership Golden class of 2015/2016 and the Leadership Jefferson County class of 2015/2016, and has served terms on a number of local government-appointed and chamber of commerce committees. She recently concluded her term as a Trustee of the Jefferson County Library.Deborah has been recognized as one of the Denver Business Journal’s “Top Women in Energy in Colorado,” and with The Elena Joyce Grissom Lifetime Achievement Award from the Jefferson County Library Foundation.Deborah is full time with IX Water.Dr. Otis (Pete) Peterson, Ph.D.Chief Technology OfficerAs Chief Technical Officer of IX Water, Dr. Peterson supervises the review of all water and power technologies and the coordination of research efforts in the public and private sectors. Among his many career accomplishments, Dr. Peterson is the inventor of the original design for the unique Hyperion Power Module. He holds six patents including those for his inventions of the cw Dye Laser and Alexandrite Laser, which earned R&D 100 awards. In the 1990’s he served as science attaché at the American Embassy in London for environmental preservation and nonproliferation issues.Dr. Peterson served as a group leader at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and held management positions at Eastman Kodak and Allied Chemical where he co-founded the laser-induced chemistry program. He was also a co-founder of the laser isotope separation program (AVLIS) at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, which continued for 26 years. His inventions and many publications have been cited by other authors in the technical literature well over 1000 times. He is a fellow of the Optical Society of America. He earned his Ph.D. in physics at the University of Illinois.Pete is full time with IX Water. Dr. Robert Libutti , Ph.D.Director & Chief Product StrategistDr. Libutti is responsible for Market and product development planning of our insanely great products.Dr. Libutti is a co-founder and the former VP of Engineering and Strategy for Hyperion Power Generation and for the software company LizardTech. He is the author of the book “IBM’s Systems Application Architecture.” After working in the industry as an electrical engineer and as an officer in the U.S. Army, Dr. Libutti began a 32-year career with the IBM Corporation. He held various positions ranging from the IBM Applied Science representative to NASA Langley during the Project Mercury space shots to IBM Group Director, holding executive marketing and executive product development positions in the U.S., Europe, and Japan.Dr. Libutti created the corporate business case, led the development team, and introduced the personal computer in Japan. He has served on several corporate boards, including Sapiens International, a publicly-traded, Israeli software company where he became co-CEO.Dr. Libutti holds a BS in Engineering Physics from Lehigh University and an MBA and a Ph.D. in Business Administration. Dr. Libutti is also a graduate of IBM’s Systems Research Institute, earning the equivalency of a Master’s degree in computer science.Bob is part-time with IX Water.Dr. Jeri Sullivan -Graham, Ph.D. InventorDr. Sullivan-Graham is the lead inventor of the IX Water technology. She received her Ph.D. in Hydrology from New Mexico Tech in 1997. She also holds an M.S. in Geochemistry from UNC-Chapel Hill, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry from the University of Virginia.Jeri’s entire career has been concerned with innovative techniques for cleaning contaminated water. Her current work includes the geochemical evaluation of water and media for growth of algae for biofuel production; experimentation for and design of water treatment methods for removing silica and organics from contaminated waters prior to use or desalination; and system model development for treatment and costs of water produced from Carbon Sequestration operations. She has over 12 years of expertise in adsorption and filtration water treatment methods for cleanup of oil and gas produced waters and the costs of treating these waters. Her other work includes statistical analysis of background groundwater chemistry on the Pajarito Plateau in northern New Mexico. She has worked as a chemist for radioactive waste characterization and disposal, hydrologic characterization and tracer studies, geochemistry of oil and gas industry disposal sites, saltwater contamination sites, and as an environmental consultant in characterization and remediation of air, soil, and water at hazardous waste and Superfund sites.Jeri works on an as-needed basis with IX Water.INVESTOR RESOURCESThe links below provide information on IX Water and the enormous need for our products.Michael Burry is Investing in Waterhttps://www.killik.com/the-edit/why-michael-burry-is-investing-in-water/Why California is Running Out of WaterSouthern California Drought • The End of Tomatoes?https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/17/us/california-drought-tomato-farmers-climateWater: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) (27 June 2022)NSFW LANGUAGE WARNING — because it is John Oliver.

## FAQ
1. **Hello. What progress have you made / challenges have you overcome since your last crowdfunding campaign? How do you compare to Avivid Water (https://republic.com/avivid-water)? Thanks**
   - Hi Felix: First of all we think Avivid has some really neat tech great products that compliment, not compete with IX Water. There are so many scenarios one must consider in water treatment. As you know, we are focused on dissolved metals, hydrocarbons, NORM, etc. I dare say we will engage Avivid soon on a couple of pending deals we have. As for progress, in general we have 1) a nice book of business in-house (builds, testing etc); 2) we've been recognized by two international organizations as...
2. **Why hasn't the China customer paid up? That's 80% or so of the firm's ST liquidity.**
   - Hi David: One word: pandemic. We are only now packing the unit for shipment to China in a couple of weeks. We worked with the customer, given that they are an entry point to a lot of other business, and delayed shipping until they could receive the unit. Thank you for the great question. Cheers, Grizz
3. **Will be adding a video about the company, vision, how the product actually works, benefits trial etc...**
   - YES I'm completing it now. We won't spend investor dollars on videos and promos, so I had to work it in to my schedule.
4. **What about desalination of sea water?**
   - Hi Dan: Excellent question. IX Water Machines can be used as pretreatment for reverse osmosis. Especially near shore where surface run off and motorized water craft leave behind hydrocarbons and other nasty stuff. On industrial salt water treatment IX Water can increase RO efficiency by as much as 50%.
5. **Hi John, this looks like a good solution for a pressing problem. I have a few questions I hope you could answer. 1. Is the 280B based on the demand side, or on the supply side? 2. I'm assuming WIP means actual PO's for orders, correct? 3. The sales pipeline of 30M, is that wei...**
   - Hi Eric: All excellent questions! 1. Demand side, half is unfulfilled each year due to high cost. IX Water Machines are at least 50% LESS total cost to treat than other methods. 2. Yes, WIP is the IX-Force building machines. 3. It's weighted. As I am sure you can see we have "unlimited" opportunity...the pipeline is potential customers that have identified a need we can meet. Timing, change resistance, and cap cost/cost of money all play into turning those potentials into leads and then custo...

## Team
- John R (Grizz) Deal (CEO & Executive Chairman)
- Randy Wilson (CFO)
- Deborah A Deal (VP Marketing & Sales)

## Q&A
- Q: Hi John, this looks like a good solution for a pressing problem. I have a few questions I hope you could answer. 1. Is the 280B based on the demand side, or on the supply side? 2. I'm assuming WIP means actual PO's for orders, correct? 3. The sales pipeline of 30M, is that weighted or unweighted? 4. Could you do a back-of-the-envelope calculation for the business case of a typical client? 5. Do you also make the connection between the supplier of this treated water, and the demand side? Maybe act as intermediary and take a commission on each litre 6. How big would you estimate the market to be in Kern County alone? Thanks in advance! With kind regards, Eric
  - A: Hi Eric: All excellent questions! 1. Demand side, half is unfulfilled each year due to high cost. IX Water Machines are at least 50% LESS total cost to treat than other methods. 2. Yes, WIP is the IX-Force building machines. 3. It's weighted. As I am sure you can see we have "unlimited" opportunity...the pipeline is potential customers that have identified a need we can meet. Timing, change resistance, and cap cost/cost of money all play into turning those potentials into leads and then customers. 4. Top level: cost to treat (CapEx+OpEx) is somewhere between $1.25 and $3.50/bbl for conventional methods in typical O&G applications. IX Water Machines are $0.125 to $0.62/bbl. 5. We will in Reclamation, but none will want us to get paid a commission. We can make sufficient revenue off treatment as a service and selling machines without putting that kind of blocker into the customer relationship. If we did treatment for "free" and then took a commission on water sales...maybe, but we'd have to have tens of millions of dollars in capital up front to do that. We have found over the last 30 years that your product or solution is enough disruption for most markets without attempting to change other things too...so we focus on what we know how to do, not try and change the entire buy/sell relationship. You can do that say with travel, social media, etc. but look at all of the dead companies created along the way to changing a market. We've seen perfectly good techs and products fail because the company made customer ROI too complicated or risky. Counting bbls treated and machines sold eliminates most of the financial risk for us, and it's something our markets can easily understand. 6. Well let's see, if we treated every bbl of produced water in Kern County each year, that would be 119 million bbls of oil producing from 8 to 90 bbls of water, ranging in price from $0.125 if customers purchased machines to $0.62/bbl if we treated the produced water via IX Water Reclamation. This gives us an annual direct market opportunity of from $119 million to $6.64 billion. I know, right? Silly high numbers. Honestly all we need to do is generate solid predictable revenue and a large firm will purchase IX Water and provide our investors with a nice return. "In 2019, Kern was ranked the #7 oil-producing county in the nation (Figure 1), yielding 119 million bbl of oil and 129 billion CF of gas annually, according to U.S. Energy Information Administration data." SOURCE (KEDF-Economic-Contribution-of-the-Oil-and-Gas-Industry-in-Kern-County_-2021. Apologies, I could not find a direct link on the Kern EDC website.) Cheers, Grizz
- Q: Hi John, how are the waste products from the different filtration processes disposed? Barbara
  - A: Hi Barbara: It depends (I hate that answer too). What IX Water Machines do is concentrate waste, and what is contaminating those waters is, by weight, very very small. So, for example if you run 200,000 units through MetalClear, you'll end up with about 200 units of waste and, depending on what metals were in the water, it may have to be processed at a special facility. So in this example, what we've created is 1/1,000 the amount of waste. Other IX Water Machine reactors, such as OrganiClear, which removes VOCs and other hydrocarbons, completely destroy the contaminants so...no waste at all. Less waste + less expense and New Water! Cheers, Grizz
- Q: Hi! I'm curious about what the use cases are for your purified water? Is it fully potable or can it only be used for grey water?
  - A: Hi Andrew! Excellent question. IX Water Machines are prescriptive so we could let water run to the point that it would be acceptable as a starting place for drinking water. Keep in mind municipal drinking water is not just clean water. Depending on your location, it may have added chlorine to ensure no bacteria or viruses show up, plus the neverending debate over fluoride (which BTW occurs naturally in a lot of source water anyways). SO, we tell our customers will will design and configure their IX Water Machine to produce "fit for purpose" water. That way they can balance cost against intended use.
- Q: Hello, This is transformational. Who is your target audience, what industries? What are some of the biggest incentives for them to implement/integrate the IX Power Clean System as part of their operations? In other words, what are some of the big ‘wins’ for them in addition to what you’ve shared here, what’s the ‘why’ vs what they do currently? Thanks
  - A: Hi! IX Water is focused on industrial wastewater recycling, so that's water from extractive industries (mining and oil & gas), chemical and petrol refining, general manufacturing, and landfill leachate. Most of our prospective customers already have a solution but it’s incomplete, too costly, or both. IX Water offers modular, scalable machines that treat virtually all classes of industrial contaminants: metals/heavy metals, scalants, hydrocarbons/PFAS, suspended and dissolved solids, sulfur compounds, and even radioactive materials. Our customers can save 50% to 95% off the cost of treating and even just disposing of their contaminated waters, so that’s the key to our success right there.
- Q: Are you aware and prepared to leverage the M+A activity setting up in the permian basin? Can water that is recovered and processed be reused by the same fracking company? Water is what adds significant cost to fracking.
  - A: Hi Michael: We can't recycle frack flowback (used frack fluid) because the completion companies won't disclose what chemicals are added to water to make the proppant carrier. The good news is that frack flowback is less than 1% of O&G wastewater so there's plenty of room for us in the market. Cheers, Grizz
- Q: Can you share with us any (recent) interactions with Avivid and how you see your products comparing, competing, or complementing? Also, your recent updates have said that you are busy building and selling IX machines. Can you share more details? How is Q1 progress in comparison to initial projections?
  - A: Greta questions! Avivid and IX Water are working on three potential deals together, two in mining and one in landfill leachate. Our products solve different problems in treating wastewater, so we are not competing with each other. While we're on track sales-wise, we don't yet run the business on a quarter to quarter basis, given the newish nature of our products and that turning a prospect into a customer always comes with unexpected issues. For example, one prospect we have now may want to increase their order, but we are delayed whilst they go sort out the capital necessary to do so. Another factor that delays sales for the new service division is the speed in which we raise capital. I've raised capital for nine of my startups, and assisted another dozen or so. I have been here before. While I'm confident we will raise our $2 million goal, the sooner we do that the sooner we'll have revenue from the Reclamation division. That's why we encourage all of our stockholders to get involved in promoting this capital raise using our new IX-Force social media tools. I can tell you I am happy with our sales process this year and expect us to be jammed up in manufacturing by year's end. Cheers, Grizz
- Q: Hi Grizz, I invested in IX Water in 2021 via StartEngine. So I’m a fan of the company… 😊 However, I would suggest that your minimum investment set at $250 is rather on the high side for the Wefunder platform. It seems the mean and the median both for minimum investment is more around $110 -$120 on this platform. And that coupled with the current change in the investing space in general, to me argues against setting such a high minimum. Perhaps you could reconsider the limitations placed on Non-accredited investors (read 'small investors') by the SEC . If I make less than $107K/year I cannot by law invest more than 5% of my income - regardless of how much I need (or don't need) to "live on". Thus if I make $50K/year, by law I can't invest more than $2,500 in Reg-CF startups. To set your minimum this high seems to ignore this constraint. For anyone to put 10% of their total available funds for investing into just one (1) startup is rather significant. Many small investors will NOT put all those eggs into just one basket, as it were. I’m convinced that rather than invest in only 10 startups in one year, most small investors would rather invest in 25 startups across multiple sectors to hopefully produce a diversified portfolio. So I'm saying if you lower the minimum investment amount, you can perhaps attract many more small investors who otherwise would not be able/willing to participate in your raise because of the high hurdle you've set. Please consider lowering the minimum. Thanks for listening. Blessings
  - A: Hi Kim: Wow you really know your stuff regarding crowdfunding! We basically just kept the $250 minimum we had over at StartEngine. In that round two years ago our average investment was about $650. Here on Wefunder so far it's $1,173. Unfortunately we can not change any of the terms on this round without closing it and starting the approval process all over again. BUT! I do take your comments seriously and you have given us some real facts to think about. Cheers, Grizz
- Q: What about desalination of sea water?
  - A: Hi Dan: Excellent question. IX Water Machines can be used as pretreatment for reverse osmosis. Especially near shore where surface run off and motorized water craft leave behind hydrocarbons and other nasty stuff. On industrial salt water treatment IX Water can increase RO efficiency by as much as 50%.
- Q: What is the status of this company, no updates in a very long time
- Q: What is the difference in valuation as compared to your start engine campaign?
  - A: The SE campaign was sold at $1.25 per share. The Wefunder at $2.50 per share.
- Q: How does your system compare with natural water treatment systems as in a permaculture design?
  - A: Hi Mar Lan: Time. IX Water Machines treat water in realtime...it only takes a minute or so for contaminated water to become clean water. All we are doing is speeding up what nature does from months to minutes. We LOVE permaculture and also work in promoting "green" wastewater and stormwater treatment. BUT if you have a daily treatment requirement, that's where IX Water comes in. Cheers, Grizz
- Q: Hey Grizz, I work in the soil erosion industry. Is your treatment process able to filter out sediment from water? Right now they use a flow through system using polymers to filter it out and it’s expensive. Didn’t know if your process would work for sediment removal or if that’s something you have looked into.
  - A: Hi Mical: Excellent question. No need to add polymers and coagulants. A series of screen filters, then an energetic centrifuge should do it. What is the flow rate? TSS? Particle size? HMU on Sales@IxWater.com and we can run some numbers for you. I spend most of my time doing these kinds of scenarios for potential customers so feel free to send on the info! Cheers, Grizz
- Q: Hello, Why extend the closing date to 4/29/24 and how does this correlate with the rolling close? Thank you.
  - A: Hi! We are confident we will raise the entire $2 million we have set out as a goal, so extending to April just makes sense. The rolling closes are about once a month. Cheers, Grizz
- Q: Hi John, I'm trying to connect the dots mostly in the flow of your model. Scenerio 1: IX sells machines to industries who then intergrate them into their systems. They use the reclaimed water. IX services the machines to clean out the contaminates/exchange tanks or whatever you plan to do. Scenerio 2: IX sells machines to an O&G operator. They can hook up machines to be dedicated to a well, or have a mobile unit they use to service several wells. They store the water and reuse it or sell it to nearby agriculture. Again, IX services the machines. Scenerio 3: IX is contracted to service a well in O&G. In this case, who owns the water? What happens to the water? I can't think of any other basic scenarios, but I do have other questions. Another lady asked a similar question about disposal. You explained that, by volumn, the amount of waste is extremely small, approximately 0.001%. You told her that IX has a machine that can destroy hydrocarbons. Is that step one? I failed chemistry, so bear with me. How do you handle the metals, especially heavy metals? Thank you, Deb
  - A: Hi Deb: All excellent questions/statements. You are correct in the first and second statements. Who owns the water is easy as well: It’s the person that brought it up out of the ground or contaminated it (in the case of industry). Keep in mind the water is a liability until it is treated. Then, depending on regulations, the treated water may be sold or given away. At no point does IX Water own any water. Although I imagine if we wanted to be water brokers, we could make an agreement to take possession of the water. We’ve considered this option enough to register the domain “waterfarmer.com.” As for processing, if the body of water requires all these steps, the IX Water Machine is configured this way: 1. PartiClear to remove particles, oil, grease, etc. (with or without a Gaia Water nanobubble generator in front of it). 2. SulfurClear where sulfur compounds are destroyed via oxidation. 3. MetalClear where metals are trapped, and recovery can take place by “mining” the media regeneration backwash. 4. OrganiClear where we not just trap by also destroy hydrocarbons as part of the media regeneration process. 5. And then specialized treatment for scalants via MetalClear++ and salts via SaltClear. Happy to answer any and all questions Dear Readers. Cheers, Grizz
- Q: Hello John, how do you plan to benefit from the recent 3M, Dupont PFAS settlement.
  - A: Hi Gilberto: Good question. If I recall there are thousands of municipal lawsuits and the settlement will be used to pay those cities/towns affected. This is yet more motivation for muni systems to use products such as ours to solve issues around PFAS, and also hydrocarbons and metals. We will be searching fro pending suits as a way of generating new leads. Cheers, Grizz