The Austrian-based fluvicon GmbH has developed ionosmosis, a continuously operating, extremely robust membrane process that redefines the status quo in the field of water treatment. Unlike any other membrane or filtration process, ionosmosis can be used to produce clean drinking water or industrial water from raw water of almost any composition, i.e. dissolved constituents (e.g. salts, carbohydrates, pharmaceutical ingredients, other ions) and undissolved constituents (e.g. oil, organics, suspended solids) are almost completely separated. Fouling and scaling – the two major problems of membrane separation technology – play no role, allowing extremely long membrane service lives. The range of applications extends from water recovery through seawater desalination to wastewater treatment and the concentration of valuable substances.