Clean drinking water harvested from tomatoes at Los Banos processing plant
A gadget capable of extracting evaporation from tomato pulp is producing 120,000 gallons a day of “new water” clean enough to drink in Los Banos in Merced County. The “water harvesting” unit was developed by Australian company Botanical Water Technologies, which moved to the United States around five years ago. The Ingomar Packing Company in Los Banos processes tomato products such as tomato paste and diced tomatoes. … Greg Pruett, Ingomar CEO, says in a promotional video about the program that the company had a large volume of condensate water from the tomatoes that was “…not being used in a valuable way.” So when it learned about Botanical and its work extracting and purifying such water, it was a good fit.
