SAWI Water Innovation
ABOUT
STOP POLLUTION BEFORE IT BECOMES AN ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS.
SAWI Water Innovation helps governments, councils and industry identify where pollution enters water, intercept it before it spreads, measure what is removed and prove the environmental outcome.
Pollution entering your water?
HAB or low-oxygen risk?
PFAS, hydrocarbons or microplastics?
Need to prove an environmental outcome?
We identify it → intercept it → recover it → verify what changed.
SAWI Water Innovation, an environmental consulting leader, is an environmental systems company built on three integrated innovation frameworks: PAGE™, PEA™, and SHIELD™. Together, these frameworks power our disciplined test, modify, and deploy platform — addressing environmental challenges, modifying media and process design to mitigate risks and enhance performance, then deploying controlled, measurable, and retrievable systems. PAGE™ optimizes environmental media, while PEA™ engineers each deployment as a managed process. SHIELD™ integrates diagnostics, interception, recovery, and environmental intelligence into a scalable resilience platform. From stormwater pollution and harmful algal blooms to hydrocarbons, PFAS-associated particulates, and microplastics, SAWI Water Innovation offers sustainable solutions that protect waterways, recover value, and support a circular economy. Our focus is on prevention at the source, ensuring clean water and valuable waste.
Saving the Oceans, One Step at a Time
Engineering a sustainable prevention first solution
SAWI Water Innovation was founded on a simple belief: prevention is better than cure. As a liver transplant recipient, our founder understands the critical role a healthy liver plays in filtering and protecting the body. The same principle applies to our oceans, rivers and waterways. If the ocean is the liver of our planet, then we must stop pollution, nutrients, microplastics and contaminants before they overwhelm its natural ability to heal itself. SAWI exists to develop practical solutions that intercept pollution at its source, helping restore the health and resilience of the ecosystems upon which all life depends.
Prevention at Source
We focus on stopping pollution before it becomes a problem, protecting waterways, communities and ecosystems through practical, scalable solutions.
Science-Led Innovation
Our team combines real-world experience, independent testing and innovative technology to deliver solutions that work where they matter most—in the field.
Measurable Impact
From stormwater to marine environments, we deliver evidence-based outcomes that improve water quality, enhance ecosystem resilience and support a cleaner future.
Saving the Oceans, One Step at a Time
Harmful Algal Bloom HAB
Urban Stormwater Filtration
Urban stormwater is one of the largest and most persistent pathways through which pollution enters rivers, estuaries, and coastal environments. During rainfall events, runoff from roads, car parks, industrial areas, and urban landscapes carries sediments, hydrocarbons, nutrients, microplastics, heavy metals, and emerging contaminants such as PFAS into waterways. Without interception, these pollutants accumulate in estuaries and marine ecosystems, contributing to degraded water quality, harmful algal blooms, and long-term environmental damage.
SA Water Innovation (SAWI) is at the forefront of providing sustainable solutions for this issue by developing practical interception systems designed to capture pollutants before they spread through receiving waters. Utilizing Gyroid™ advanced filtration media integrated into engineered boom and cartridge systems, SAWI water innovation solutions passively filter contaminants from flowing stormwater while maintaining natural hydraulic flow. These systems are tailored under SAWI’s PAGE™ (Pollutant Adaptive Gradient Extraction) framework and PEA™ (Process Engineering Application) engineering architecture, making them suitable for stormwater outlets, canals, urban wetlands, marinas, and estuarine inflows.
The effectiveness of these environmentally consulting approaches has been demonstrated in real-world deployments. Stormwater interception trials conducted in the Tuggerah Lakes system on the NSW Central Coast, with the support of Central Coast Council, successfully captured hydrocarbons, debris, and urban pollutants before they entered the estuary. Similar demonstrations in India have showcased the adaptability of the technology for urban drains and canal systems, where pollution loads can be significantly higher due to increased population density and industrial activity.
By intercepting pollutants at the point of discharge, SAWI’s stormwater systems help prevent contamination from spreading through waterways and coastal environments. Captured materials can be directed into SAWI’s circular end-of-life recovery pathways, ensuring that pollution removed from waterways is responsibly processed rather than sent to landfill or incineration.
Through this integrated approach, SAWI is helping cities and coastal communities move toward a future where urban runoff is managed, ecosystems are protected, and pollution recovery becomes part of a circular environmental economy. 🌊♻️ READ MORE
Making ports cleaner and healthier
SHIPPING BALLAST WATER FILTRATION
Urban Stormwater Filtration
Urban stormwater is one of the largest and most persistent pathways through which pollution enters rivers, estuaries, and coastal environments. During rainfall events, runoff from roads, car parks, industrial areas, and urban landscapes carries sediments, hydrocarbons, nutrients, microplastics, heavy metals, and emerging contaminants such as PFAS into waterways. Without interception, these pollutants accumulate in estuaries and marine ecosystems, contributing to degraded water quality, harmful algal blooms, and long-term environmental damage.
SA Water Innovation (SAWI) is at the forefront of providing sustainable solutions for this issue by developing practical interception systems designed to capture pollutants before they spread through receiving waters. Utilizing Gyroid™ advanced filtration media integrated into engineered boom and cartridge systems, SAWI water innovation solutions passively filter contaminants from flowing stormwater while maintaining natural hydraulic flow. These systems are tailored under SAWI’s PAGE™ (Pollutant Adaptive Gradient Extraction) framework and PEA™ (Process Engineering Application) engineering architecture, making them suitable for stormwater outlets, canals, urban wetlands, marinas, and estuarine inflows.
The effectiveness of these environmentally consulting approaches has been demonstrated in real-world deployments. Stormwater interception trials conducted in the Tuggerah Lakes system on the NSW Central Coast, with the support of Central Coast Council, successfully captured hydrocarbons, debris, and urban pollutants before they entered the estuary. Similar demonstrations in India have showcased the adaptability of the technology for urban drains and canal systems, where pollution loads can be significantly higher due to increased population density and industrial activity.
By intercepting pollutants at the point of discharge, SAWI’s stormwater systems help prevent contamination from spreading through waterways and coastal environments. Captured materials can be directed into SAWI’s circular end-of-life recovery pathways, ensuring that pollution removed from waterways is responsibly processed rather than sent to landfill or incineration.
Through this integrated approach, SAWI is helping cities and coastal communities move toward a future where urban runoff is managed, ecosystems are protected, and pollution recovery becomes part of a circular environmental economy. 🌊♻️ READ MORE
FOREVER CHEMICALS
PFAS FILTRATION & PRE Filtratrion
Urban Stormwater Filtration
Urban stormwater is one of the largest and most persistent pathways through which pollution enters rivers, estuaries, and coastal environments. During rainfall events, runoff from roads, car parks, industrial areas, and urban landscapes carries sediments, hydrocarbons, nutrients, microplastics, heavy metals, and emerging contaminants such as PFAS into waterways. Without interception, these pollutants accumulate in estuaries and marine ecosystems, contributing to degraded water quality, harmful algal blooms, and long-term environmental damage.
SA Water Innovation (SAWI) is at the forefront of providing sustainable solutions for this issue by developing practical interception systems designed to capture pollutants before they spread through receiving waters. Utilizing Gyroid™ advanced filtration media integrated into engineered boom and cartridge systems, SAWI water innovation solutions passively filter contaminants from flowing stormwater while maintaining natural hydraulic flow. These systems are tailored under SAWI’s PAGE™ (Pollutant Adaptive Gradient Extraction) framework and PEA™ (Process Engineering Application) engineering architecture, making them suitable for stormwater outlets, canals, urban wetlands, marinas, and estuarine inflows.
The effectiveness of these environmentally consulting approaches has been demonstrated in real-world deployments. Stormwater interception trials conducted in the Tuggerah Lakes system on the NSW Central Coast, with the support of Central Coast Council, successfully captured hydrocarbons, debris, and urban pollutants before they entered the estuary. Similar demonstrations in India have showcased the adaptability of the technology for urban drains and canal systems, where pollution loads can be significantly higher due to increased population density and industrial activity.
By intercepting pollutants at the point of discharge, SAWI’s stormwater systems help prevent contamination from spreading through waterways and coastal environments. Captured materials can be directed into SAWI’s circular end-of-life recovery pathways, ensuring that pollution removed from waterways is responsibly processed rather than sent to landfill or incineration.
Through this integrated approach, SAWI is helping cities and coastal communities move toward a future where urban runoff is managed, ecosystems are protected, and pollution recovery becomes part of a circular environmental economy. 🌊♻️ READ MORE