Humanity’s water pollution is killing fish, wildlife, and ecosystems.
Zinc, copper and other heavy metals
Petroleum and oils
Sewage and Wastewater
Our vehicles, homes, farms, businesses, and industries generate runoff and effluent containing toxic heavy metals, oils, sewage, nutrients, and chemicals. This is a threat to fish, wildlife, ecosystems, and people in most industrialized regions worldwide. These pollutants seep into precious water sources, soils that grow our food, and habitats that nourish animals.
Our Model
- Identify polluted hotspots with the greatest impact to fish and wildlife using real water quality data. Determine who is polluting toxic heavy metals, petroleum, and chemicals into the watershed. Prioritize the need.
- Search the world for best management practices (BMPs) and innovative technologies to capture, slow, reduce, and reuse stormwater, wastewater—all water.
- Determine the most relevant for the target pollutants and regional or site situation.
- Engage industrial/commercial and municipal water managers, transparently discuss pollution or sustainability status, prioritize needs, and set wise water goals (if not already done).
- Facilitate projects; supports the water manager or property owner to improve their water management practices by connecting them to BMPs, technologies, solutions teams, and allies.
- Share results of projects by communicating to more water managers, property owners, solution providers, funders, allies, and volunteers.
PureBlue Unites
Solutions, Innovation, Projects, and People
Where We Work
Our activities are location-agnostic.
We have focused implementation in the Puget Sound and Pacific Northwest. However, water quality and supply issues occur in water basins that include the Salish Sea, Columbia River, Colorado River, Pacific, Atlantic, Gulf, Great Lakes, and Bay Area.
We find and work with solution teams primarily from North America and Europe. Our global contact network extends to more than 30 countries across 6 continents. We are looking for new partners to help bring our network of solutions to their local municipal and industrial water managers.
We hope to work with volunteers around the world that are also passionate about water, people, and Earth’s vitality.
Initiatives and Projects
Clean Waterways: Puget Sound
Helping Polluters Become Water Protectors
Identifying and prioritizing polluted hotspots most affecting fish and wildlife.
Finding and introducing Best Management Practices (BMP’s) and technologies to industrial and municipal water managers to treat, monitor, and managing stormwater and wastewater, with the goal of reducing pollution and restoring the Puget Sound and the Salish Sea.
Collaborating with communities of partners and allies within and outside the region.
Ports Water Quality & Stormwater
Clean Water Practice Meets Global Transport
Finding and supporting the world’s leading ports to improve water quality and stormwater management
Identifying BMPs and technologies for stormwater management
Facilitating port peer-to-peer relationships, learning, and sharing.
On November 2, 2020 we hosted the first Ports Water Quality Meeting where the Ports of Seattle (sponsor), Long Beach, Los Angeles, Maryland, San Diego, Vancouver BC, and Virginia shared their respective water/stormwater situation, needs, goals, approaches, and results. Future meetings will cover micropollutants, monitoring, energy efficiency, tenant engagement, and other key sustainability topics.
Aqualyst
Water Innovation at the Speed of Thought
The water industry is one of humanity’s oldest and most physical industries. It is the last frontier for innovation to take hold as it is traditionally risk-averse. Aqualyst exists to shift the adoption speed of new solutions.
Aiding ports, utilities, agriculture and aquaculture farms, property owners, manufacturers, and industrial processors to improve water management practices and achieve net zero water footprint.
Helping bluetech startups access projects and partners.
Supporting investors, foundations, and donors to find and evaluate projects and companies with measurable results to society, ecology, and economy.
Wellspring Conference Series
Water Solutions, Community Workshops
A congregation of water managers, leaders, and innovators across the Pacific Northwest and North America. More than 80 people participated in a 90-minute workshop geared towards prioritizing regional water management challenges, discussing tangible technology and programmatic solutions, and proposing the next steps toward our Puget Sound recovery.
Contact us for the integrated summary conclusions resulting from the group workshops.
Sustainable Dairies
Transforming Waste to Resource
Finding, evaluating, and introducing innovative wastewater and lagoon treatment technologies for small dairies with hundreds of cows or large dairies with thousands.
These solutions reduce runoff, nitrogen, and ammonia while transforming manure into a resource.
Washington State Green Economy Water Recommendations
Advising Water Strategy for Economy, Ecology, and Policy
PureBlue, WA Association of Cities, WSU, and HDR developed water recommendations for WA State legislature:
- W-1: Examine a comprehensive new framework for managing water.
- W-2: Establish a clean-water-technology business accelerator and industry engagement program.
- W-3: Engage Washington’s local and tribal jurisdictions in a focused dialogue on water.
- W-4: Support workforce development efforts targeting the emerging needs of public works organizations.
Click here for the full report or contact us to discuss clean water, ecology, and economic development recommendations for your region. We will help bring the right voices to the table.
We are happy to tell you more about the work we do – contact us anytime and let’s talk!
Initiatives and Projects
Clean Waterways: Puget Sound
Helping Polluters Become Water Protectors
Identifying and prioritizing polluted hotspots most affecting fish and wildlife.
Finding and introducing Best Management Practices (BMP’s) and technologies to industrial and municipal water managers to treat, monitor, and managing stormwater and wastewater, with the goal of reducing pollution and restoring the Puget Sound and the Salish Sea.
Collaborating with communities of partners and allies within and outside the region.
Ports Water Quality & Stormwater
Clean Water Practice Meets Global Transport
Finding and supporting the world’s leading ports to improve water quality and stormwater management
Identifying BMPs and technologies for stormwater management
Facilitating port peer-to-peer relationships, learning, and sharing.
On November 2, 2020 we hosted the first Ports Water Quality Meeting where the Ports of Seattle (sponsor), Long Beach, Los Angeles, Maryland, San Diego, Vancouver BC, and Virginia shared their respective water/stormwater situation, needs, goals, approaches, and results. Future meetings will cover micropollutants, monitoring, energy efficiency, tenant engagement, and other key sustainability topics.
Aqualyst
Water Innovation at the Speed of Thought
The water industry is one of humanity’s oldest and most physical industries. It is the last frontier for innovation to take hold as it is traditionally risk-averse. Aqualyst exists to shift the adoption speed of new solutions.
Aiding ports, utilities, agriculture and aquaculture farms, property owners, manufacturers, and industrial processors to improve water management practices and achieve net zero water footprint.
Helping bluetech startups access projects and partners.
Supporting investors, foundations, and donors to find and evaluate projects and companies with measurable results to society, ecology, and economy.
Wellspring Conference Series
Water Solutions, Community Workshops
A congregation of water managers, leaders, and innovators across the Pacific Northwest and North America. More than 80 people participated in a 90-minute workshop geared towards prioritizing regional water management challenges, discussing tangible technology and programmatic solutions, and proposing the next steps toward our Puget Sound recovery.
Contact us for the integrated summary conclusions resulting from the group workshops.
Sustainable Dairies
Transforming Waste to Resource
Finding, evaluating, and introducing innovative wastewater and lagoon treatment technologies for small dairies with hundreds of cows or large dairies with thousands.
These solutions reduce runoff, nitrogen, and ammonia while transforming manure into a resource.
Washington State Green Economy Water Recommendations
Advising Water Strategy for Economy, Ecology, and Policy
PureBlue, WA Association of Cities, WSU, and HDR developed water recommendations for WA State legislature:
- W-1: Examine a comprehensive new framework for managing water.
- W-2: Establish a clean-water-technology business accelerator and industry engagement program.
- W-3: Engage Washington’s local and tribal jurisdictions in a focused dialogue on water.
- W-4: Support workforce development efforts targeting the emerging needs of public works organizations.
Click here for the full report or contact us to discuss clean water, ecology, and economic development recommendations for your region. We will help bring the right voices to the table.
We are happy to tell you more about the work we do – contact us anytime and let’s talk!
Get Involved!
PureBlue is reimagining what it means to volunteer, and we’re training a robust and capable volunteer community
Online Research
Help us create the world’s most comprehensive database of clean water solutions and best practices
FUNdraising
Rally and organize resources for the water mission through relationships and networking
Citizen Science
Collect water samples, take photos, or place sensors in the real world to help catalog water data
Community Building
Unite and lead your community by producing online and in-person events
Communication
Be a voice to motivate people to act on behalf of our water resources
Aqua Artist’s
Promote your creations, leverage your talent, and inspire people