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UltraStrip's Filtration and WaterEye's Homeland Security Monitoring Systems Team Up
Thursday February 2, 8:00 am ET


STUART, Fla., Feb. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- UltraStrip Systems, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: USTP - News), the Stuart, Florida-based homeland security technology company, announced that they have formed an alliance with WaterEye Corporation for monitoring water systems for Homeland Security, military, and industrial applications. WaterEye's patented water monitoring systems will be installed on the filtration equipment manufactured through UltraStrip's wholly owned subsidiary, Ecosphere Technologies, Inc. Ecosphere recently signed a Joint Marketing and Supply Agreement with Pierce Manufacturing, a subsidiary of Oshkosh Truck Corporation, to jointly manufacture a Tactical Water Filtration Truck.
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"This is an innovative solution that can help protect our nation's water supply from both natural disasters and terrorist attacks," said Joe Allbaugh, former FEMA director and UltraStrip board member. "It's a good example of how the private sector can work together to help secure our nation's future."

Tom Wolfe, Chief Executive Officer of WaterEye Corporation, said, "Ecosphere Technologies is the right company for us to partner with to bring our unique monitoring equipment to the homeland security and military markets. Our patented and secure systems can be monitored 24/7 through the Internet or a satellite if the Internet is down to alert our water facilities of contamination issues. Ecosphere's equipment is the only high-volume filtration system to be tested and verified by the EPA through their Environmental Technology Verification Program for a terrorist attack."

Mickey Donn, President of Ecosphere, said, "The Bioterrorism Act of 2002 requires community water systems to have an Emergency Response Plan that includes equipment that can lessen the impact of a terrorist attack. Recent reports of contaminated water in Iraq for our troops could have been discovered immediately with the WaterEye monitoring equipment. With the WaterEye technology and our filtration equipment, we believe we will offer the finest detection and remediation solution possible for our fighting forces."

On December 5, 2005, the Company signed a Joint Marketing and Supply Agreement with Pierce Manufacturing, Inc. (a subsidiary of Oshkosh Truck Corporation, "OSK", NYSE). Pierce will assemble the Company's mobile filtration units into the Pierce truck chassis and body to produce the Tactical Water Filtration Truck and will market the product through its well- established national sales force and international dealerships. UltraStrip produces its filtration equipment through its subsidiary, Ecosphere Technologies, Inc.

UltraStrip is a technology firm that develops and manufactures patented equipment to provide solutions to homeland security, military, and environmental problems. The Company's proprietary Mobile Emergency Filtration Systems and Tactical Water Filtration Trucks, provided through its Ecosphere Technologies subsidiary, are breaking new ground by transforming its powerful water-filtration and purification technology for use in the world's most challenging applications, including the military (e.g., for troop deployments) and Homeland Security (e.g., to areas hit by man-made or natural events that damage vital water resources). The Company's Mobile Emergency Filtration System successfully operated for two months in Waveland, MS following that community's devastation from Hurricane Katrina, providing bulk water for drinking, bathing, cooking, and cleaning purposes. UltraStrip's patented robotic water jetting systems are designed to provide an environmentally safe coatings removal process in both heavy marine, automobile, and above-ground storage tank applications. The robotic systems have been utilized for U.S. Navy ships (including the U.S.S. Cole after its attack off the coast of Yemen), cruise ships, and tankers in shipyards throughout the world. Additional information on UltraStrip can be obtained through its websites http://www.ultrastrip.com and http://www.ecospheretech.com .

WaterEye Corporation is a Web-based technology company based near Sacramento, CA whose mission is to make remote monitoring and data analysis services affordable and available to a broad range of users. WaterEye's flagship patented product is a sophisticated yet very easy to use Web-based monitoring system utilized in a wide variety of applications. The Bureau of Reclamation used WaterEye on their mobile water trailers in the Gulf Coast region after Hurricane Katrina. WaterEye's system is deployed for water system monitoring duties within refineries, nuclear power stations and complex manufacturing facilities. Industrial and municipal water and wastewater treatment plant operators rely on WaterEye to provide the primary alarms and alert functions when they are not physically present on site. Municipal plants also use WaterEye's Web-based analysis and reporting functions to generate state and federally mandated water quality and discharge reports, providing SCADA class performance at a fraction of the normal cost. http://www.watereye.com