As we move into the new millennium, water has become one of our most precious commodities. Governments and companies spend millions of dollars to protect, store, and supply this valuable resource. However, the world's waterways have come under increasing pressure from the effects of urbanisation and industrial growth. Water pollution is now arguably the biggest environmental problem facing society today. One cause is urban stormwater run-off, which is not generally filtered before entering rivers and seas.

The 1992 Rio de Janeiro world environment summit provided the vision for both our future and our survival. Each attending country gave an assurance that the protection of the environment would be a priority. Key to this aim was the cleanup of our waterways and the establishment of a range of measures to prevent pollution in the future.

Government action has now increased in almost every industrialised country and environmental agencies have been charged with cleaning up our waterways. The aim is to restore those waterways to the way nature intended.

Ecosol has successfully developed a range of products that filter pollutants from not only stormwater but also sewage, another major contributor to the degradation of our waterways.

Ecosol began operations in Adelaide, South Australia in January 1996 with the aim of developing an at-source method of filtering gross pollutants from stormwater side entry, and grated, stormwater pits. Once that aim was met with the award-winning RSF 100 unit, Ecosol began development of in-line/end-of-line systems that resulted in the company's flagship products, the RSF 4000 and the RSF 1000.

In 2007 Ecosol acquired the Net Tech technology and recently released the a unique fully-contained rainwater storage and re-use system, the RST 7000, to safely and efficiently treat and store our valuable rainwater run-off and reduce dependency on mains water.