Treat water to standard, recover what you can, waste less.

Environmental services are one of Glorinda’s core activities. We provide industrial and municipal water and wastewater treatment, seawater desalination, sludge management and waste management — as engineering, procurement, integration and turnkey packages.

Our focus is maximising water recovery and minimising environmental impact by avoiding outdated methods and using advanced, efficient systems. We design each process around the real stream: its volume, its contaminants and the client’s discharge and reuse goals.

The economics usually turn on how far up the recovery curve it is worth going. Minimum Liquid Discharge recovers around 85% of a stream using conventional RO, closed-circuit RO and high-efficiency RO — a cost-effective alternative to thermal evaporation, and the right answer for most sites. Zero Liquid Discharge takes recovery close to 100% and leaves essentially nothing to discharge, but it costs more to run. We size that decision against your permit, your water cost and your expansion plans rather than defaulting to the most complete solution available.

Two capabilities sit underneath most of our work here. Our adsorbent systems remove up to 90% of COD through a simple flow-through process without electricity, take out heavy metals including up to 99.5% of lead, and address cyanide, pesticides, silica, ammoniacal nitrogen and colour — while producing under 1% waste against roughly 30% for RO, and regenerating on site for hundreds of cycles. And Glorinda Resins, our own subsidiary, supplies the ion exchange, mixed bed and EDI media that take recovered water to ultrapure quality for reuse in boilers, cooling and process.

Typical applications

• Boiler feed water treatment
• Cooling tower blowdown recovery
• Condensate polishing
• Demineralised & ultrapure water
• Process water treatment
• High-COD industrial wastewater
• FGD & ash-handling wastewater
• Landfill leachate treatment
• Seawater desalination
• Municipal sewage treatment
• Water reuse & recycling
• Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE)

Common challenges we solve

• Discharge limits tightening faster than existing plant can meet
• No room to expand because water intake or discharge is capped
• High-TDS or high-COD streams that conventional treatment can’t handle
• Rising cost of freshwater, chemicals and waste disposal
• Sludge volumes growing as treatment improves
• ESG and water-footprint targets with no clear route to reuse

Water and wastewater is deep enough to warrant its own space. Explore the full pre/main/post offering, sludge and the technology set — with links onward to our water subdomain.

A dedicated water subdomain hosts the deep content.