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More buying today than selling, not by ton, about 100K.
If this is "lots of selling". bring it on.
Pretty blessed to find this undervalued company when I did.
Its going to be a very nice short term and long term run. imo
I did ask that question a while back, management feels confident we will see revs from water toward the end of summer. I expect overall revs to continue to rise this fiscal year, just a wild guess,above 30 million would not surprise me.
I got a few filled under .03.
GLTU
The 5 million in funding that stws pr'd this afternoon is non dilutive. Just confirmed it with the company, the lenders will get a small % of each well. Not sure why it was not mentioned in the pr. The lenders feel confident they will get well paid in royalties.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/stw-resources-closes-initial-5-184000275.html
Got to love it 5 million non dilutive. Great news!
I take offense to your sarcasm, thats me sitting at .0296. lol
Do you have L2, how does it look between here and 50dma?
I think it will move pretty fast btw it acts when buyers come in.
GLTU
I am bid sitting, for now at .03, we shall see.
THe sky is the limit, once it breaks.
ME !!!! lol
"Which people are you referring to? "
Real company, real rev's and a huge market.
IMO we are bouncing along the bottom, once we break upwards, buying shares will become very hard.
GLTA Longs
There was a lg seller selling shares at whatever price he could get.
There was also some very deep pocketed investors who bought shares in lots of 10 and 20k in the .60's. The seller through everything he had imo at the market in a period of a few days and the price is now higher(15%) than what he sold at. Very nice and firm support in the .60's. Those investors are not selling for the 15% as they know what they own.
We go up from here. imo
Very cool, it a matter of time now.
Much cheaper and only solid waste.
Form 4's??????
IR seemed pretty confident that they would be on time with the Q,
I suspect it will look very good, I would not be at all surprised to see over 30 million in rev's this year.
The company is for real ,has a very small public float, a lot of money behind it, great products, drilling wells into a huge aquifer, has many irons in the fire and is in a area that will become very profitable, will garner attention and is necessary for all forms of life!.
I think we are very blessed to have bought in at these levels.
GLTA Longs
Love to see it form a base at .03 for a few days.
I have a feeling the 100k at .03 will be gone in the next three minutes, Yum yum
Thanks for the welcome,
Will buy more if the price stays in this range.
Hey thanks,
I will flip some, but the more I learn the more I think holding some for the long term may be wise.
In yesterday,
Split funds between pxyn and stws.
Yes, I believe within the next two weeks.
Rev's are climbing very rapidly, the water revs will hit later this summer.
LOL.
Its hard when you see such prices to not buy.
I sold a little portion of a stock that I have done very well with and have held for a long time. I really think stws will do very very well long and short term. Interesting when the larger asks started rolling in so did some Lg bids. IMO what ever shares are being sold are being bought by Lg buyers, most likely long term investors, not traders, they would not buy like that. The float is going to be locked up very tightly imo. On the stock I mentioned above it went up well over 1000% over a year ago and held about 300 plus % for well over a year. STWS is poised to make a huge move like that imo.
GLTU
I also pick up a very nice size chunk THursday, with the bulk being at .60, then a little at .61 and .64.
I will not pass up the opportunity if it happens again today,
GLTA Longs
BREAKING THE HYDRO-ILLOGICAL CYCLE
Previous droughts have been met with a cycle of response illustrated below.
However, the California water crisis has highlighted the huge economic costs associated with water shortages and this "cycle of denial" is not expected to be repeated.
The word is out: "Water is a precious and irreplaceable commodity that has a value beyond current costs."
And with this new appreciation for water supply and delivery comes increased business and investor interest to invest in sustainable solutions to providing that water in the future. No industry participant nor observer believes that water will be in less demand going forward.
STW Resources is well positioned by both its geographic location (see map below) and technological solutions to build on its business plan to pursue the myriad opportunities to meet the demand for water reclamation and desalination.
The cycle has been broken. Whether or not the current droughts across the US are alleviated by rainfall, municipalities, and industries such as energy and agriculture, have been put on notice that making the investment to assure future water supply is necessary and there is a significant negative economic impact if ignored.
Reference: http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/expert_assessment/sdo_summary.html
Really loaded up today in the .60s.
IMO a great price.
Never thought I would have this size position here, but I am very comfortable with it.
GLTA Longs
Yes cttc looking very strong, also buying stws in the .60s today.
IMO someone knows something on cttc.
I am waiting for a little base, then I will load up.
I know I may miss out but would take out some risk.
I will gamble with a bit if we hit .01s.
Hey thanks for the reply,
Really nice story, but I don't have nay idea where the bottom might be.
Kind of reminds me of mdnt, several % loss everyday. But I think it turns.
Will continue DD,
Any thoughts on potential for dilution, Share structure and need for cash.
Looking at jumping in.
Also potential pr's?????
CTTC, going to break out as soon as we see news.
Until then I think we keep the very nice uptrend.
Nice chart.
Any thoughts, will this news cause follow through or a one day pop????
pilgrim. Once STWS starts announcing contracts for the Salttech desalination technology, I expect alot more interest in the company and what they are doing. It's obvious that the current desalination methods have alot of problems as mentioned in the article below. If the Salttech approach to desalination is as good as advertised, STWS should be getting a contract or two for desalination. If the numbers per acre foot of water comes in less than, and the brine waste is really not as big as a problem, STWS could become a big player in a big industry.
But that will take time. In the meantime, these prices are ridiculous. You get some impatient shareholder deciding to move on and wants to do it all at once, it surprises the potential buyers. All of a sudden, it hits .65 and THEN the buyers wake up and jump in. When STWS gets more average daily volume, this stuff will not happen again. But I missed the Blue Plate Special Stock Sale yesterday too.
Desalination plants aren't a good solution for California drought
Los Angeles Times
michael.hiltzik? @latimes.com
As surely as the hot, dry Santa Ana winds bring blue skies to the coast and wildfires to the hills, severe California droughts bring calls to build desalination plants up and down the seashore.
All that ocean water, begging to be converted to fresh and pumped into our pipelines, would solve our water supply problems instantly and permanently, boosters say. In the coming months, the drumbeat will only get louder. That's not only because the current drought is the longest and most severe in memory, but because a $1-billion desalination project scheduled to start operating in Carlsbad this fall will be attracting lots of attention. The plant, the largest of its kind in the U.S., is designed to provide San Diego County with about 50 million desalinated gallons a day, about 7% of its water needs.
"A lot of people are watching what's going to happen in Carlsbad," says Peter MacLaggan, the executive overseeing the project for its developer, privately held Poseidon Water. "They're going to base their future decisions on the success of this project."
That could be a mistake. MacLaggan himself doesn't expect desalination to be "a major component in our lifetime" of the state's overall water supply, although Poseidon has proposed to build a second desalination plant, in Huntington Beach. That plant is still awaiting approval from the California Coastal Commission.
Enthusiasm for desalination tends to overlook its high costs, which stem in part from its enormous energy demand and weighty environmental footprint. The modern process, known as reverse osmosis, involves forcing seawater at high pressure through a membrane that screens out the salt, leaving behind a heavily brackish residue.
In Southern California, which has become more dependent on fossil-fueled electric generation since the shutdown of the San Onofre nuclear power plant, Carlsbad arguably will be moderating the effects of climate change on the region while also contributing to the greenhouse gas emissions that help cause it. (MacLaggan says Poseidon will buy carbon credits and restore local wetlands to offset the plant's environmental impact.)
"There are definite advantages to seawater desalination," says Heather Cooley, water program director at the Oakland-based environmental think tank Pacific Institute. "It's a reliable supply, independent of weather conditions like drought. But it's still among the most expensive water supply options."
Let's take a look at the hard realities. As big industrial facilities, desalination plants can't be plunked down just anywhere on the coast without destroying the qualities that attract people to the shoreline. Yet the plants need to be close to customers, with room for pumps, pipelines, inflows and outfalls.
Poseidon rejected three locations before settling on the Carlsbad site, which is next to NRG Energy's Encina Power Station. That allowed the new plant to share the seawater-cooled power station's water lines, which reduced its cost and its impact on marine life. Even so, according to a 2012 state appeals court ruling, the plant had to install extra equipment to reduce its marine impact in periods when Encina isn't running; if the power plant shuts down permanently, the desalination plant may have to submit a new environmental impact report.
The San Diego County Water Authority has committed to purchasing the plant's entire output for 30 years — a deal that was crucial for Poseidon's financing — for about $2,100 to $2,300 per acre-foot, plus inflation. An acre-foot is 325,851 gallons, or about a year's usage for one or two five-member families. The county agency, therefore, will be paying at least $110 million a year, whether it needs the plant's water or not. San Diego water bills are projected to rise by an average of $5 to $7 a month to cover the cost.
The county judged that it might pay about that much in the future for other imported water, which makes the commitment look like a long-term hedge against a continuing water crisis. But desalinated water is far more expensive than other existing sources. San Diego currently pays $923 per acre-foot for treated water from the Metropolitan Water District. The Pacific Institute reported in 2012 that San Diego could obtain recycled water for as little as $1,200 per acre-foot, and that the marginal cost of water obtained through conservation and efficiency measures was as little as $150.
San Diego is making a risky bet that may be ill-advised in a crisis. "Investing in desalination is not a good way to address a drought," says Henry J. Vaux Jr., an emeritus water economist at UC Berkeley, "because by the time you finish it the drought is over."
That's what happened to Santa Barbara, which began building a $34-million desalination plant during the drought-stricken 1980s. By the time it was completed in 1992, the rains had returned; the facility went through a few weeks of pilot testing, then was mothballed and partially dismantled. The city is now contemplating restarting it at a cost of $40 million, plus $5 million a year in operating costs. That would place the cost of desalinated water at about $3,000 an acre-foot and drive up average monthly household water bills to $108 from $78 today.
Santa Barbara's experience has been replicated on a much larger scale by Australia, which after 2006 invested more than $12 billion in six desalination plants — the largest of them twice the capacity of Carlsbad's — only to mothball four in 2012, after returning rains overfilled the country's reservoirs.
The least visible cost, of course, is environmental damage. Ocean inflows suck up and kill larval marine organisms. At the other end of the desalination cycle, the salt extracted from seawater produces a heavy brine to be pumped back into the ocean, potentially destabilizing the ecology around the outflows.
"Dumping water that is saltier than seawater into the ocean isn't harmless," says Vaux, who contributed to a 2008 blue-ribbon study of desalination for the National Research Council. "Some organisms can't survive, others move in — the ocean isn't a great big garbage can."
Few studies have tracked the environmental impact of dumping on Carlsbad's scale for a long period. It may be premature, at best, for MacLaggan to say that it "truly is a benign impact" compared with that of diverting water from waterways in Northern California to send south.
San Diego, which is more dependent on outside water than most populous California communities, may be the best location in the state for a big desalination project. Other jurisdictions, including Santa Cruz and five Northern California water districts, have taken a look at the technology and backed off because of its expense and environmental implications.
Assertions that desalination is an easy answer to California's water crisis should be taken with more than a grain of, well, salt.
Boy I think you could be correct.
Ir was very clear that STWS has a bunch of irons in the fire. We will not hear about any of them specifically until the deals are signed. But if one is waiting to invest when deals are done, they will pay a much much higher price and not be able buy a very large position. imo
STWS: The Future of Water as an Investment
STW Resources (OTCQB:STWS)
Market Capitalization $24.7 Million (@ $0.78)
2013 Revenue $1.9 Million
2014 Revenue $18.6 Million
The link below accesses an informative video from Future Money Trends on the Global Water Crisis and the investment opportunities in the Water sector. Although the video does not reference STWS specifically, it is a good overview of the future business opportunities in the sector that STWS is expanding in.
http://media.futuremoneytrends.com/the-coming-global-24.7water-crisis-futuremoneytrendscom_213f79f0a.html
Separately, Earth Day Texas is being held this weekend in Dallas where STW Resources will be exhibiting and Alan Murphy, President of STW Water, will be participating in a Panel Discussion on Water Infrastructure.
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150414006442/en/STW-Resources-Exhibit-Water-Remediation-Reclamation-Services#.VTkT0cItGM9
FYI
Paul DiFrancesco, 432-296-3000
Took sometime yesterday to call ir.
I feel very comfortable with my position in stws.
It sounds like they have a lot of irons in the fire, and are in communication with multiple entities on multiple fronts. Got the feeling they feel like the stock is suffering as the companies in the water business on the otc have been less than honest, thus a credibility problem.
Any one with a lg investment in stws should give them a call, very informative about well drilling processes/timing, THe fort stockton wells (water from these wells will need very little processing) will be huge imo.
GLTA Lngs
Conix
Re: STWS
I noticed the BB are really pinching when you look at some chart time frames, and other time frames not so much. What time frame do you look at to consider the BB as a good indicator of a likely move.
GLTA Longs
I agree, one contract will make a huge difference, not just because of the money from that contract, but I believe many will follow. STWS has a better exchange written all over it.
For now there is a seller in the mid .80s, we will need volume to take him out. I believe the person or entity is selling at the floor for the stock price. THose buying in are getting a very nice value. imo
GLTA Longs
"So Pfizer wants to buy a 20 cent stock- yeah makes sense LOL!
Good point it will never happen, Elite is way undervalued, and will be bought out at many multiples of the current price.
GLTA Longs
"So Pfizer wants to buy a 20 cent stock- yeah makes sense LOL!
Good point it will never happen, Elite is way undervalued, and will be bought out at many multiples of the current price.
GLTA Longs
The article below is good background for the business opportunity that STW Resources (STWS) has with the challenges municipalities and many Western states have and will have in the future.
Note the"Predicted Water Shortages" map which illustrates that STWS, based in Midland, Texas, is operationally located in the middle of major regional water shortages. And the prospect for more shortages going forward bodes well for STW Resources business plan of water reclamation and desalination.
For your information.
California's Drought Grabs Headlines, But Other States Face Water Woes Too
Pew's Stateline | By Elaine S. Povich
This piece comes to us courtesy of Stateline.
Stateline is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news service of the Pew Charitable Trusts that provides daily reporting and analysis on trends in state policy.
With all the attention focused on California’s water woes, an observer might conclude that the Golden State’s drought is the exception. It isn’t. Forty states expect to see water shortages in at least some areas in the next decade, according to a government watchdog agency.
In a 2013 survey by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), state water managers from around the country said they expect freshwater shortages to continue into the next decade, even under what they described as “average” conditions. If those conditions change—whether because of rapid population growth, unusually low snowfall or rainfall, or accelerated economic growth—the situation could worsen.
“As far as other states, if they haven’t seen it in the past, it’s something they will see in the future,” said Ben Chou, a water policy analyst in the Los Angeles office of the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental group.
Late last month, Democratic California Gov. Jerry Brown implemented mandatory water conservation rules. The rules ban all restaurants, bars and hotels from serving water unless customers ask for it, ban the watering of lawns and landscaping within 48 hours of measurable rain, and require municipalities and private companies to limit lawn watering to two days a week.
The lawn-watering limits are likely to have the most impact, since outdoor irrigation makes up 44 percent of water use in the state’s urban and suburban communities, according to the state water board. The past three years have been the driest three years in California history dating to the 1849 Gold Rush, the board said. Low snowpack, combined with 2014 being the hottest year in history in the state, exacerbated the situation.
Residents of other states should take a lesson from California, Chou said. “Attention on California is due to the size of the state and the fact that we grow about half of the nation’s produce,” he said. “Other states have started looking at it, especially where water supplies are at a premium.”
Montana, for example, was listed in the GAO report as the state most likely to have a statewide water shortage in the next decade. Many other western states are in a similar predicament.
Tim Davis, Montana Water Resources Division administrator, said his department told the GAO that in any given year, any part of the state could have a water shortage. He said that last year, most of the state was fine, but the southwest corner was dry. Entering this irrigation season for farmers, Davis said the southwest region remains dry as is “much more of the state.”
Under direction from the Montana Legislature, Davis said his department has begun to plan for water shortages.
“Drought is one of those disasters that you have to plan for,” he said. “You can’t just immediately go out there and change how you’re using water on the ground or invest in efficiencies unless you have been doing it all along.” He said the state is making plans to share water between communities during times of drought, along with changing field irrigation methods to save water.
great read for all investors.
STW's Desalination Technology from Salttech, Ltd.
Presentation accessible here: http://www.stwresources.com/files/5414/2316/6536/_STW_Water_Summary_added_2.5.14.pdf