“Hi Friend, Do You Have Enough Drinking Water or Food Insurance?”

“Do you have enough insurance?” asks any insurance salesman you meet at a party. Do we?  

Right now, with a few clicks of a button you can buy insurance for your

• ·     Car
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• ·     And our favorite, “Change of Heart” insurance, in case right after an expensive wedding, you change your mind.

But, we don’t have Food Insurance or Drinking Water Insurance. The two things we just can’t do without, no one has figured out a way to offer us insurance.

Well, here at the Beneficial-Use Water Alliance and Encore Green, we think we have created the first ever insurance policy for food and water. Well, sort of.

The aquifers for drinking water need to stay replenished, right. You will get thirsty later today.

The hard-working farmer is growing enough food for us all, but he can’t do it without water. And we want him to keep at it, because we will get hungry later today.

We need to know we will always have food and water. Well, follow the below for a moment:

The oil industry creates by-product water from pumping oil and that water is disposed of by injecting it back into the ground or letting it evaporate. We’re talking billions upon billions of gallons of water each year.

Encore Green has developed a methodology to take that by-product water, clean it up, and put it right onto crops and for livestock to drink. 

That way the farmer and rancher have a new source of water for lands and herds.

And, if the water needed for agriculture use is coming from a brand-new source, then the water for drinking in the aquifer is not being drained and therefore there’s more water.

See, turning by-product water into beneficial-use is an insurance policy for food and drinking water. 

So, do you have enough insurance?

#beneficialusewater #BUWA #water 

Beneficial-Use Water is Like a Can of Peas.

At the market, you pick up a can of peas and put it in your basket. But wait, how do you know it’s peas? Well, obviously, it says “Peas” on the label. 

But let’s say you had a flood in the bottom shelf of your pantry and all the labels were soaked off. You couldn’t tell what was in which can for dinner. Tonight, are you having peas? Beans? Dog food? 

You need to be careful because labels tell you what’s inside. That’s why BUWA makes such a big deal over calling the oilfield by-product water “beneficial-use.” Not only is that an official designation, it tells you what it is.

You see beneficial-use water is not just better than by-product water. Its very core DNA has changed – it is a brand-new thing. 

See, the label tells you what it is. Beneficial-use water means you can use it for ag or all sorts of conservation applications. It has lost the stigma of by-product water because it has changed.

That’s the power of a label. Without a label, you’re having Alpo for dinner.

Crude Oil’s Not For Your Gas Tank, Right?

Here at BUWA, we keep trying to come up with all sorts of analogies to help us collectively change our minds and see the potential for transforming oilfield by-product water into water for beneficial-use like ag or conservation.

Analogy #432:

So, when the crude oil comes out of the ground, nobody puts it right into their gas tank, right? Of course not. The crude oil has to be sent to a refinery where it then becomes useful for us. It has to be made “beneficial-use oil.”

Same for the water that comes out with that crude oil. It’s not ready either to be put to immediate use. The by-product water can be cleaned right there in the field and then put right back out onto the land. 

So, why do we get excited about crude oil but not by-product water? 

Well, because until now, we haven’t had a proof of concept and a viable economic model. But now that we do, let’s see the produced by-product water as being a good thing!

Of course, all analogies break down and refining crude oil is way more complicated and expensive than cleaning up by-product water. That’s the problems with analogies, they aren’t the real thing. 

Want to talk about the real thing? Drop us a note: director@beneficialusewateralliance.com

The Word About Beneficial-Use Water Spreads!

The Wyoming Tribune Eagle and Wyoming Business Report just published a story profiling Encore Green and BUWA. We appreciate them helping to spread the word about beneficial-use water!  Read it for yourself here: 

http://www.wyomingbusinessreport.com/newsletter_am/encore-green-looks-to-repurpose-wyoming-oilfield-water/article_893823d0-8a9e-11e8-8dff-07541e069652.html

What About By-Product Water Liability? Well, What About It?

Encore Green, the company who works with BUWA to transform the by-product water into beneficial-use water gets this question all the time: Who’s taking responsibility and is liable for the beneficial-use water matching the required specs when it goes on the land

The person asking the question is ready for an army of lawyers, who all will say, “Not me.

Well, the way we look at it is that if Encore Green is doing the testing and cleaning, then they are responsible.

In fact, their patented methodology simply eliminates the whole liability issue because Encore Greens pre-tests and post-tests on a continual basis. It’s not a “one and done” test. The soil and water are matched and the water goes onto the land. Then, both soil and water have monthly tests to make sure that all is as it should be. If not, then adjustments are made. Soil needs will change over time, so we eliminate the liability by constant monitoring.

So, Encore Green will take the liability. Any more questions?

You see, sometimes it seems like questions like this are just reasons to toss rocks at the whole beneficial-use water concept. Liability is a non-issue. So, let’s get started getting the right water on the land!

But we do like questions, though. If you have ‘em, we want to hear ‘em.

Director@beneficialusewateralliance.com

It’s Kind of Like an Empty Milk Jug

By-product water is kind of like an empty milk jug. Here’s what we mean.

In many states, especially in suburbs and cities, you get colored-coded trash cans provided by the city. Often, black is regular trash, green is the grass trimming, brown is for if you have horses (do we have to give the details?), and then there’s the blue can.

The blue can is for recycling. You walk out of your house and you have that empty, plastic milk jug to throw away. Which can do you put it in?

Now, you can throw it in the black trash can and it ends up in the landfill. Or you can put it in the blue can and somebody, somewhere turns it back into another plastic jug, ready for milk.

Same with by-product water. Toss it into the black can and inject it back in the ground or let it evaporate in ponds. Or, put it in the blue can and that somebody, somewhere can turn it into water that you can water crops, manage soil, raise herds, or use it for other conservation applications.

So, you see, the choice is right before us. Are we going to keep throwing away the by-product water? Or recycle it into something beneficial-use?

The solution is ready. Which will you choose?

#BeneficialUseWater #EncoreGreen #Water

Cancel the Crusades. We Found the West’s Holy Grail

Not THAT Holy Grail. 

No, we’ve found the thing that Buffalo Bill, Brigham Young, Francis Newlands, and even Teddy Roosevelt tried to find out here in the West: Water.

You think your State has water? Maybe ask them. Most States are facing aquifers that are in critical danger now OR have some pretty scary projections about the coming few years. 

But the Beneficial-Use Water Alliance has discovered water – the thing that turns our semi-arid land into farms, ranches, towns and cities. And, turns out, we had the water along. It’s the water gushing out of the oil wells at a pretty brisk pace. 

The only trouble is, that water is by-product water and it needs processing before it can be used for anything beneficial. To clean it, it has to get trucked to an expensive facility, so, the easiest thing to do is inject it back into the land or let it evaporate. Sure, you could clean it, but it will cost a zillion or so to do that. 

Until now.

Beneficial-Use Water Alliance, working with Encore Green, has a new methodology to turn this by-product water into beneficial-use for ag and other conservation applications – inside an economic model that doesn’t cost more. And could cost less.

If we aren’t having to use the aquifer water for ag, what do we end up with – the Holy Grail of any dry climate: bountiful water in the aquifer. 

We just have to get all the stakeholders to the Round Table and talk. Let’s start with you, visit us at BeneficialUseWaterAlliance.com/contact

#beneficialusewater #BUWA  #WATER 

Who's Fault Is It Anyway?

Man, oh man, let’s not forget about the whole issue of liability for the buy-product water that comes out of the oil wells. 

Our whole society is ridiculously litigious and many seem to have a “lie-ability” when it comes their skill to get money from someone without warrant. (See what we did there with “liability”?)

But, let’s ask this question – which has more risk: Putting by-product water into the ground and spinning the roulette as to what will happen. Or, making it beneficial-use for ag and other conservation applications where, as part of the workflow, the water is carefully monitored.

Injection you have all sorts of weak links like trucking, earthquakes, pipeline issues, and no one is monitoring that water from a scientific standpoint to see what it’s going to do in the ground.

The reality is that many days, you are only a few steps away from a class action suit. 

But, turning it into beneficial-use establishes a process where the water is monitored to avoid any problems. 

Come on over to the beneficial-use water side. Because, we figure you have other things to do with your money than pay insurance premiums.

Farmer Roger's Neighborhood

Mr. Oil Industry, I’m your ag neighbor. I live all around that oil well of yours. A little wheat over here. Alfalfa over there. Those cows? That’s me, too.

I know that a lot of folks like to toss rocks at you, but I always stand up for my neighbor because I think we all are better off buying gasoline from you instead Iran or Russia. Nothing personal, but they haven’t always good neighbors to us. 

I see that you work hard at this business of getting oil to come out of the ground. I hear the large, noisy rigs, trucks, and shouts of the workers. I see the regulators look over your shoulder, doing their job, but maybe making it tough to do yours. 

I see the placards about how you’re evil. I’ve never been sure if they are all mad at you about the environment or just mad at you for making money. But, I’m just an ag neighbor, trying to get some food grown.

Here’s my request. I also see barrels and barrels of gunky water coming out of that well. Last year in Wyoming, 71 billion gallons of that mire was injected or evaporated.

Could I have it instead? 

I’d work with some other ag neighbors of mine who can clean it up for my crops, my soil, and my herds. You can even use it for fracking the next well, too. You don’t use a lot of it for that.

Your by-product water could become beneficial-use water. Maybe they wouldn’t throw quite so many rocks at you, if you do. It won’t cost you more than you’re paying to inject or evaporate. And then, the water in your kitchen sink won’t run out because the aquifer isn’t being drained for ag.

I’m just trying to be neighborly. And, to quote our hero, Mr. Rogers, “Won’t you be my neighbor?”

#BeneficialUseWater  # Water

Want to be neighborly? Director@BeneficialUseWaterAlliance.com

Meet The World’s First Agricultural Midstream Company

Most of us who live near oil wells know the terms upstream, midstream, and downstream. The more “down” the stream, the closer to the end user who is filling their gas tank. The more “up” the stream, the closer to the exploration and drilling for oil.

In the middle, the midstream, are where the moving of the oil happens. They’re the logistics folks who make things move from point A to point B with great efficiency.

So, today, we’re declaring ourselves to be the world’s
 first “Agricultural Mid-Stream Company.”

“What was that again?” you say.

When we say “we,” we are talking about two separate companies that do different things. Together, the two companies (with the ranchers, farmers, oil companies, and state government), take the billions of barrels of by-product (i.e. unusable) water from the oil well and turn it into beneficial-use (i.e. usable) water for ag and other applications.

•    The Beneficial-Use Water Alliance is the matchmaker, seeking to pull all the stakeholders together and work out a customized plan for each land parcel where everyone wins. Win-Win-Win-Win-Win has been our mantra since the beginning.

•    Encore Green, LLC does hands-on logistics of cleaning it and then working with the stakeholders for ag or other applications.

See, we’re like the midstream oil companies in function.

Come talk to us. We won’t be able to solve any real headaches – for that we suggest Tylenol. But, we can solve your headache of what you do about having too much by-product water or not having enough good water for your crops, herds, or municipalities.

#beneficialusewater #water