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Clearford One

A way to collect, move, and treat all household wastewater in areas with low water supplies.

A way to collect, move, and treat all household wastewater in areas with low water supplies.

Clearford has spent the last 25 years making and installing its unique, patented system for collecting, treating, and recycling sewage in order to deal with this problem. The Clearford One solution is based on the idea of decentralized sewage collection and has three main parts: underground ClearDigest Smart Digester tanks, a network of sealed HDPE pipes called ClearConvey, and a ClearRecover Wastewater Treatment Plant (STP) at the end of the line that is dedicated to recycling as much water as possible and making water security better. This step-by-step decentralized process has many advantages over traditional sewerage collection and treatment systems and allows for effective sewerage coverage, which helps achieve SDG 6.

Positive facts about Clearford One

Clearford One system with a 17 KLD STP in a village of 56 Homes has a OPEX of € 0.50 / Home
In a small village of 1000 people getting 70 L/capita of water supply assuming 85% water captured = 59,500 L recycled daily and 2.17 Million litres recycled annually
85% of wastewater recycled for reuse
100% of all wastewater generated is captured via Clearford One
15 – 50% cheaper CAPEX against comparable alternative
30 -90% cheaper OPEX versus Mechanical SBR/MBR STP

Video about Clearford One

https://www.youtube.com/embed/3ptD-t9RVpM

Clearford One website : https://clearford.com/

Arnaud Michel, founder of Keys for Tomorrow
About the curator

Arnaud Michel is the founder and curator of Keys for Tomorrow. In 2014, his master’s thesis on community currencies and sustainable development won the Prix Recherche at Belgium’s Prix de l’Économie Sociale; the research was later published as Ecological Economics (Elsevier, 2015). He curates this directory to the same standard, cross-checking every project against established certification bodies and directories — including B Corp, 1% for the Planet, and Solar Impulse Foundation — alongside direct research into each project’s own record. Connect on LinkedIn.

Positive impact projects aligning with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals