NEWS

As a part of our series about business leaders who are shaking things up in their industry, I had the pleasure of interviewing Riggs Eckelberry.

Riggs was once a happy tech executive. In 2005, he helped take a security software company public as its president. Then, he pitched a fund and─long story short─Riggs ended up as CEO of a small public company working to disrupt industrial water, a huge, but slow-moving trillion-dollar global market. Riggs is uniquely qualified to disrupt this industry, having learned management in the nonprofit space, captained oceangoing ships, and achieved several tech exits during the dot-com boom.

by  Lisa J. Huriash

"The trend of increasing chemicals in the groundwater means there could eventually be a problem," said Dan Early of OriginClear, a Clearwater company that creates water treatment equipment.

MCKINNEY, TX / ACCESSWIRE / October 22, 2020 / Riggs Eckelberry, CEO of industrial water company OriginClear, has had nothing short of a life-changing year. With their latest invention the Pool Preserver™, a trailer-mounted machine that uses reverse-osmosis to purify pool water without using any chemicals and only minimal energy, it's clear that innovation is their specialty.

Conceptually it makes a lot of sense to farmers and oil producers alike: Use the latest filtration technology to turn one of Kern's most troublesome waste streams — oilfield produced water — into a safe irrigation source.

There’s nothing better than a rearview mirror, but since you can’t drive backwards, you’re going to have to develop the ability to evaluate in real time. It means being willing to make mistakes — FAST.

What role to do you think more widespread water treatment can play in helping to prevent future pandemics? 

Can it be that more sanitation could drown future COVID-19’s before they surface?  

A genius I know, OriginClear® CEO Riggs Eckelberry, firmly believes it can and to finance it, he has created the ultimate liquid investment. 

By Daniel M. Early P.E.

When a car dealership in Pennsylvania found the perfect piece of land for an expansion project, the price seemed too good to be true. Turned out, it was. Daniel M. Early, PE, senior engineer for OriginClear’s Modular Water Systems and its subsidiary, Dallas-based Progressive Water Treatment, was approached about finding a solution for this real estate development.

Industrial Advancements Widely Vary

If you travel the world (which everyone arguably should do if they can), you’ll quickly discover that various areas of the globe are in massively different places when it comes to specific industrial advancements. As an example that stands out, take water technology.

Article by Chris Cowell
Original Publication: Craft Brewing Business

Debut & First Sale

When OriginClear Inc. debuted its on-site water treatment solution this year, its Modular Water Systems division, the first sale was to a craft brewery. Modular Water Systems is radically different in that it deploys a manufacturing approach totally unique to the water and wastewater industry in North America.

“The only true pleasure is that of human relations”
Interview With Riggs Eckelberry the CEO of OriginClear

Interview & Article by Yitzi Weiner
Original Publication: Authority Magazine

Here’s my favorite quote, I carried it around since my teens. « Il n’est qu’un luxe véritable, et c’est celui des relations humaines. » (The only true pleasure is that of human relations.) Antoine de St-Exupéry (Terre des Hommes). Human relations — there is nothing else.