Livestock Water Recycling, Inc

Livestock Water Recycling, Inc. (LWR) is a privately owned Canadian company. Our Head Office and Innovation Centre is based in Calgary, Alberta. Our story is a combination of Canadian innovation, entrepreneurialism, and a passion for the environment. For over 15 years we ran a successful business as a designer and manufacturer of systems for the treatment of hydrocarbon contaminated groundwater.  This business was exciting and allowed us to develop a reliable and tested technology.  We worked from the Arctic Circle to Hawaii, from the JFK airport to Brazil.  It sparked our passion for global water treatment and fueled our desire to innovate.

We wanted to continue cleaning the world’s water - in 2003 we discovered the dairy and hog livestock industry.  This huge market was dramatically underserviced in the area of water treatment technology, according to the UN Water Development Report, agriculture accounts for 70% of global freshwater withdrawals.

We felt that with our previous experience in contaminated water treatment, we could have a BIG impact on the world.  Why? Everyone needs food, everyone needs water, and everyone wants a clean environment to live in.

Manure is traditionally stored in massive lagoons the size of football fields fifteen feet deep.  Runoff from storage and spreading activities has the potential to contaminate surrounding land, rivers, and lakes.  We discovered an environmentally sustainable alternative to this practice.

The type of water treatment system we envisioned allows a farm to create a full circle - treating manure to recycle all the nutrients and clean water back to their crops. We want to give back to the earth what we are taking from it.

Farmers are the original environmentalists! Manure is a natural organic fertilizer and is excellent for the environment. Farmers work hard 365 days a year to feed the world. We want to support them in the important role that they have and make their lives a little easier. By 2050 we need to increase world food production by 70% in order to meet the needs of 9 billion people as mentioned by Dairy Herd Network. Innovation will lead us to develop technologies to meet these needs using fewer resources.

The treatment of manure entrained waste water was a lot harder than we thought it was going to be, but we persevered and by 2007 we had a prototype. In 2008, we ran our system at a Manitoba hog facility and the system is still in operation today! By 2010 we had commercialized systems. We now have systems installed and operating throughout Canada and the US.

We set out to invent something unique with wide spread environmental potential - which we have done.  Our team of creative, educated, and dedicated individuals is working hard to continue to shape the way manure is handled in order to protect the environment while reusing resources wherever possible. Please join us on this venture – we’ll be there to support you every step of the way!  Install a system at your site and see the positive impact it will have at your operation. (Not to mention the money it will save you!)

We see the value in manure, the nutrients that can be reused from it and the benefits it can produce when managed correctly – let us focus on the manure management while you focus on your core operations and the animals you support!

Mission

To provide livestock operators with cost-effective and environmentally friendly manure management systems which produce clean potable water and valuable nutrients for re-use in order to sustain and improve livestock operations.

Vision

To be the global industry leader in sustainable manure management.

Our past is just as important as our future! Travel back through our innovative history and see how it has led us to where we are today. Want to know more? Contact us we would love to tell you all about it.

2014 - New Zealand Patent awarded for LWR Treatment System and method

- Finalist in the Imagine H2O 2013 – 2014 Food & Agriculture Competition

- Finalist for the esteemed Ernest C. Manning Innovation Award

2013 - Canadian Patent awarded for LWR Treatment System and method

- First system installation at an anaerobic digester (BioTown, IN)
- Received funding for a research study with Harper Adams University

- Winner of the Globe & Mail and TELUS Small Business Challenge

2012 - System installation in Rosedale, BC (dairy)

- First system installation in the US (Bath, NY - Dairy)
- Exhibited at first international trade show (EuroTier in Hannover, Germany)

2011 - Top 10 Product in the Dairy Herd Innovation Awards 

- System installation in La Broquerie, MB (hog)

- Received funding for a research study with Olds College Centre for Innovation

- Mentioned in 'The Search for Sustainable Agriculture' peer review (Harper Adams University 

2010 - Won the Emerald Award

- Top 10 New Product at the World Ag Expo 

- First US livestock pilot project (Michigan - Dairy)

- Mentioned in 'Summary of Manure Treatment Technologies and their Impact on the Manure Phosphorus Balance' literature review (MLMMI)