About Derceto - Company Background

San Francisco, CA (April 22, 2009) - Derceto Inc., today announced that it has been chosen by The Artemis Project™ as a Top 50 Water Companies Competition winner. This award distinguishes Derceto Inc., as a leading company that is helping to build one of the great high-growth industries of the 21st Century. Derceto Inc., was selected by a panel of industry experts based on an integrated matrix of four criteria: technology, intellectual property and know-how, team and market potential .

“The Artemis Project’s Top 50 Water Companies Competition winners have excelled in key strategic areas in the emerging advanced water technology sector,” said Laura Shenkar, Principal of The Artemis Project. “We are excited to spotlight these innovative companies for the first time on the world’s stage and congratulate them for their achievements in introducing the solutions that will reinvent the water landscape.”

“We are thrilled to be recognized by our peers for the innovative product that is Derceto Aquadapt,” said Simon Bunn, Chief Technology Officer of Derceto Inc. “The uptake globally of our operations optimization software has seen many utilities achieve significant energy cost savings, often slicing 15% to 20% off their costs, while simultaneously reducing their carbon footprint.”

Please visit www.theartemisproject.com/competitionpage.html for a full list of the 2009 Top 50 Water Companies Competition winners .

Mike Espejo brings over 20 years experience in the Water / Waste-Water Industry to his role at Derceto, with 18 years of that spent in the Operations Department of the 5^th largest Water Company in California.

Based in Riverside County CA,  Mike utilizes his operations expertise to manage and provide in-country support to existing Derceto Aquadapt installations in North America. He also strengthens the delivery process for new Aquadapt installation projects with a particular focus on managing the essential operator input to project design and then deliver appropriate training during and after the installation.

Mike has previously supervised the Control Room at Eastern Municipal Water District. There he managed the Potable and Recycled systems along with System Control Operators, Dispatch Team and Planner / scheduler staff in a 24/7 operation.

Mike is certified by the California Department of Public Health and maintains T-3 Treatment Operators’ certificate and a D-5 Water Distribution System Operators’ certificate.

K Water, the bulk supplier of water to nearly all of Korea, has awarded two feasibility projects to Derceto.  These two studies are being undertaken in collaboration with our in-country partner, EnE System who have already supplied technical specialists for the projects to work in the Derceto New Zealand office. The first study is for an area covering about 1/4 of Seoul.  With 2000 ML daily demand for this sub-system and the capacity to deliver 20,000 ML per day to the whole of Seoul this is the largest single distribution system every analysed by Derceto.  The second study is for the city of Ulsan in the south of Korea. It has a daily demand of 1200 MLD making it similar in capacity to some of the US reference sites.

Derceto Inc. responding to increased business in the Canadian market opened up an office in Toronto, Ontario earlier this year.  This office will provide closer contacts for our many Canadian customers and act as a springboard for increased future growth in the Ontario and wider Canadian market. 

Press Release San Francisco Dec. 17th, 2007

Energy management company Derceto, Inc. is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Wes Wood Jr. to the role of Vice President of Sales effective from January 1st 2008. Wes Wood has a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering Technology and 23 years of control systems experience working in the water and wastewater industry. During this time, Wes has held a number of positions ranging from Design Engineer and Project Manager through to Regional Sales Manager and President & CEO of an Instrumentation and Controls company in the Southeastern U.S. In joining the Derceto team, Wes will add considerable experience and strength to sales, delivery and support activities in North America.

Derceto is pleased to announce that we have been chosen by California based AlwaysOn as one of the GoingGreen 100 Top Private Companies for 2007. The first-annual elite GoingGreen 100 list was compiled by the AlwaysOn editorial panel. In order to be eligible for the GoingGreen 100 list, companies had to be peer-nominated, with AlwaysOn receiving more than 500 nominations from venture investors, investment bankers and other industry experts.

We are delighted to see that WaterOne were selected as having the second best tasting water in the nation at this years 2007 AWWA national conference in Toronto. Congratulations WaterOne!

Derceto Aquadapt was installed into WaterOne in July 2006.  It controls the entire distribution system including setting selections for the raw water intake pumps from the Kansas and Missouri Rivers.

Derceto Inc., is pleased to report that Eastern Municipal Water District (EMWD) was chosen by the California-Nevada Section AWWA as the recipient of the 2007 Outstanding Energy Management Award for their Derceto Aquadapt software implementation. Congratulations to EMWD on a successful project and a well deserved outcome

A copy of EMWD's press release can be found here

Derceto's Chief Technical Officer, Simon Bunn, won the Entrepreneur of the Year Award at the New Zealand Engineering Excellence Awards held in Wellington in December 2005.

At the 2002 ACENZ* Awards Derceto took one of the two gold awards for the most outstanding projects of 2002.

"The software has proved to be robust, user-friendly, flexible and reliable, and since its introduction into the system in June 2000, has effected substantial savings for the client."