Since 2010, the owners of Water Future have been researching the most efficient water desalination techniques. The most sustainable technology has been further developed and has led to the establishment of Water Future BV. This technique uses electrostatic desalination instead of the standard electrochemical desalination (better known as ElectroDialysis).

The difference between both processes is illustrated in the following schematic drawings. In the first figure, the desalination takes place through  an electrostatic process (non-Faraday reaction) at the electrode. This is based on capacitive storage.  The salts are electrically driven to the  supercapacitor electrode and stored there. No chemical reactions take place. When the electrodes are full, they are regenerated by reversing the electricity.

The second figure describes the process in an electrochemical desalination process. In this conventional ElectroDialysis process, reduction and oxidation processes take place, whereby harmful and corrosive components (O2, H2O2, HClO, Cl2) are formed. Therefore, it is imperative that expensive electrodes made of titanium, mixed metals, and ruthenium are used here to prevent premature corrosion. The harmful reaction products formed are also often discharged into the environment. The described innovation of electrostatic desalination offers many advantages: cheap electrodes made from natural products (graphite, carbon), no electrolyte needed, safer, no harmful emissions, simpler system construction, lower voltage, less electricity consumption and lower production costs. One consequence of these benefits is that the  developed system has become ideally suited for the smaller-scale water purification applications in horticulture and the cooling tower market.