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Among the major breakthroughs that the clean technology movement can be credited with are several that take on the problem of water pollution.   Visiting the Clean Tech Open last week in San Jose, The Real Story talked to Sharad Hajela, Chief Science Officer, and Alison Wellsfry, Product Development, of Crystal Clear Technologies.

The team talked to The Real Story about the creating not just clean water, but EPA-certified quality water by passing streams through their process, which involves an absorptive material that is readily and abundantly available. They described how to take water polluted with arsenic, selenium and the like, and turn it into low-cost, clean drinking water— taking off the table one of the big uncertainties in big questions in California’s future.

They even told a wonderful story about “mining” for copper by using the water running water through the mine, and accumulating the heavy metal through the Crystal Clear absorptive material—a completely different energy equation in an industry that is thousands of years old.

For more information about the technology behind the interview, visit www.simplyclearwater.com. More from Clean Tech Open tomorrow.