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By Chris Eccles, Seawater Solutions Environmental Coordinator What a week it has been! With the completion of our first visit to Malawi and the pilot site now operational, we have now arrived in Namibia for a project scoping exercise and feasibility study on the beautiful Walvis Bay coast line…and it looks like the West coast […]

By Mario Ray, Seawater Solutions Global Project Manager (UK and Pacific Regions) How do you grow sea-vegetables 300 miles from the sea? You’ll need one piece of unused land, an abundant source of saline water, one of Seawater Solutions’ automated and renewable-powered farming systems, several late nights and long days digging in the hot sun,

By Lam Quoc Nhut, Seawater Solutions Nha Be district farm manager My name is Lam Quoc Nhut, I am 26 years old. I grew up in Ca Mau Province, the southernmost province of Vietnam, and I am now farm manager for Seawater Solutions in Nha Be district, Ho Chi Minh City. I first came to

By Chris Eccles, Seawater Solutions Environmental Coordinator So it’s February 2nd, and the world certainly looks different today compared to this time last year! But one thing hasn’t changed… it’s World Wetlands Day! This year the focus is on Wetlands and Water which is centred around wetlands as a source of freshwater and encourages actions

By Nicholas Shell, Seawater Solutions Global Project Manager (Asia) 2020 You would be forgiven for thinking Seawater Solutions was a Salicornia farming company, but in reality, we’re developing solutions for a much wider range of environmental problems around salinity – one of them is creating market opportunities for other naturally salt tolerant halophyte plants. In

By Yanik Nyberg, Seawater Solutions Founder & Director 2021 is well under way for us at Seawater Solutions, with seven of us now all over the world, from Ghana to Malawi and Vietnam. The end of 2020 felt like a rush to the finish line to get our current projects launched in light of Covid-19

By Mario Ray, Seawater Solutions Global Project Manager (UK and Pacific Regions) Driving towards dark, towering cumulonimbus clouds, it was not long before the wind picked up and heavy rain drops started to fall. We stopped the car, and waited for it to all blow over, as flashes of lighting lit up distant fields. Chikwawa,

By Yanik Nyberg, Seawater Solutions Founder & Director Deltas like the Volta Region in Ghana play a vital role in ecosystems, farming, and transport. Not just that, but deltas manage the interaction between our seas and the environments upriver, for wildlife and the livelihoods of its inhabitants. Crucial to deltas are it’s wetlands that regulate

By Chris Eccles, Seawater Solutions Environmental Coordinator What a pleasure it is to be here in Malawi, such a beautiful country with the most hospitable people! At first glance it might seem odd for a company with “Seawater” in the name to be operating in a landlocked country, however, deep under all that soil are

By Nicholas Shell, Seawater Solutions Global Project Manager (Asia) 2020 was an arduous journey for all, and for Seawater Solutions Vietnam that was no exception. In one year we operated a total of 6 different sites, completed 3 production cycles, and went through two separate lockdowns on our farms. While the journey has been turbulent,