Q&A JIM SHUBAT
Jim Shubat
Chief Technical Officer
SanEcoTec
Jim Shubat tells Sustainable Business Magazine about how SanEcoTec is trying to bring sustainable water treatment to North America and beyond.
Can you tell us a little about the history of SanEcoTec? We started with a vision of better ways to treat water. Understanding how important water was to us as individuals and society as a whole, we felt that instead of the standard notion of water that won’t make you sick in the short term, we could treat water in a way that had clear and demonstrable long term benefits, and was suitable to put back into the environment. And that’s a giant leap from the status quo. How has SanEcoTec changed during your time as Founder and President and now as CTO? We’ve gone from a simple idea to advanced patents-pending processes. We have a better way of treating water in different applications. We’re currently in municipal drinking water treatment 12 | SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS MAGAZINE