What is Guerrilla?

Guerrilla is a highly efficient device meant for membrane-less removal of pollutants from surface water runoff.

Problem

Polluted Runoff enters the drainage network every time it rains. This end’s up in our rivers untreated.

30% of all particulate pollution in our water bodies is mobilised by road-runoff from weather events.

— US EPA.

30% of all ocean pollution is mobilised by surface water runoff, making it the single largest mobiliser of city pollution into the environment. When it rains, debris of human activity washes away from our impervious built environment and roads. With toxicity comparable to sewage, this runoff is a cocktail of road, tyre, and brake wear, microplastics, toxic hydrocarbons, heavy metals, pathogens etc. and is discharged into water bodies untreated, damaging aquatic ecosystems and human health.

Proof of Concept Prototype

Solution

Guerrilla extracts contaminants passively using no membranes, moving parts or electricity and operates at high flow rates and high efficiency, while fitting into the current maintenance regime of cities.

Guerrilla is versatile and retrofittable into various sized existing roadside drains as an array of individual units which can independently perform highly efficient phase separation (98% with simulated runoff) without reducing the throughput capabilities of the roadside drain.

Impact

Based on predictive analysis: In a city such as London, with the installation of Guerrilla in ****just 250 strategic roadside drains, the instantaneous local turbidity of the river Thames after a rain event can be brought down by 37% at less than the cost of a London double decker bus.

With Guerrilla, we’ve demonstrated a 98% efficiency in capturing particulate matter from simulated runoff in a controlled environment.

Team

As a multidisciplinary team with backgrounds covering business, engineering, data science, user experience, product design and sculpture, we believe that our particular collection of skills enables us to work effectively independently while complementing each other in our combined efforts. With the interpersonal bonds we’ve developed, our teamwork and ambition have been streamlined towards mitigating the problem of surface runoff with Guerrilla.

Summer Chen Co-founder & COO

Adhesh Shenoy Co-founder & CEO

Hunaid Nagaria Co-founder & CPO