“Our mission is to be a leader in water control technology by designing and building products that assist and improve the environment.”

“Our mission is to be the leader in water control technology by designing and building products that assist and improve the environment.” Richard Quintana, founder of AquaOne Technologies set this as his mission statement when he first began the company in 1999. The company was originally to be called WaterSave Inc. and was begun for the purpose of designing, manufacturing and selling a device to stop toilet overflows.

The idea for the device came as the result of a slip and fall injury of a 90 year old man named Mr. French. Mr. French was a resident at the assisted living care facility where the Richard Quintana was the Director of Facilities. Mr. French often caused toilet overflows, as do many older people with differing stages of demenitia. This time, Mr. French slipped and fell on the water and broke his hip. Several months later, he died of complications directly resulting from the fall.

Richard, at that time had been looking for a product that would eliminate the overflows and not allow any water to leave the bowl. There were none on the market. Several products existed that would shut the water off eventually but all of them allowed water on the floor. So Richard began the design and development of a device that would stop address the problem.  In 2001, the FlowManager was born. The next few years were a testing ground for the FlowManager. After many trials and errors, the FlowManager was in the market and the company, now called AquaOne Technologies, was manufacturing and selling overflow devices that also incorporated a tank sensor for recognizing leaks and toilet mechanical malfunctions that could cause potential property damage and tremendous water waste.

Never one to slow down on development, in 2004, Richard began development of a newer, more compact device, the H₂Orb. Over the next 4 years, development and testing of the H₂Orb was completed and in June of 2009, the first production H₂Orb’s arrived at AquaOne.

Also during those four years, AquaOne developed and manufactured a toilet tank aquarium called the Fish n Flush. The Fish n Flush was developed as a trade show gimmick to attract people to the AquaOne booth to see the H₂Orb. Using the same clear toilet tank concept that the company used to demonstrate the water conservation capabilities of the H₂Orb, the two piece toilet tank aquarium was a huge success and demand for the product prompted AquaOne to develop and manufacture the real Fish n Flush. With the assistance of the talented mechanical designer David Millar, The Fish n Flush was designed, developed and manufactured and hit the market in November 2006.

Then in 2010 Richard, never one to stop improving put together a team of engineers to make a device that would work in even the worst water conditions. Ceramic disks and a NASA engineer help us launch our now flagship product, the Toilet Guardian

While innovation and design is our bulwark, we also recognize other innovators and as such, we assist in launching and promoting other innovative water technology products. In addition, we also license our developed technologies for uses outside our core competencies.

For additional company information, please contact us at our home office in Westminster, Ca.

Gregory W.  Irvin, President

Greg Irvin joined the company in February 2009. Greg is a native Californian and a graduate of the University of Southern California. As president of a family owned company he helped grow it to one of the largest in its industry. The entreprenurial and management skills learned while driving the family business to a an over half billion dollar company have been integral to building a second successful business that may have the  potential to substantially reduce US water use.

David M. Parrish, Chief Operating Officer

David has been with the company since 2005. David is part of the design and engineering team for the Toilet Guardian and  that first launched the H2Orb and also helped conceptualize and design the Fish n Flush.  Three and half years of engineering study before switching disciplines to finance and economics has helped him to fill the multiple roles needed with any start up company.

Prior to joining AquaOne David was President of a day trading firm, owned his own marketing company, and held general manager positions in the hospitality industry. He is a graduate of Memphis State University and holds an Master of International Management from Thunderbird, The American Graduate School of International Management where he studied international finance and Mandarin Chinese.

Richard Quintana, Founder

Richard is Chief Inventor, Chief Engineer, and Chief of QC and QA. Richard spent four years in the US Marine Corp as an engineer where he gained substantial experience in computer technology. Following his time as a Marine, he worked for several companies as a computer hardware trouble shooter until those well honed skills led him to facilities management. For over a decade he was a facilities director for senior and asssited living buildings. He also help design and build several new, state of the art complexes as well reburbish existing properties.

It was at these new facilities that RQ (as he is called by many) felt the frustration and realized the high cost of toilet overflows and leaks.  Following his father’s inventor streak, Richard has designed, patented and has patents pending on multiple devices from the practical and useful to the fun and whimsical.

RQ now chooses to spend his time doing what he loves best, inventing and manufacturing. You can usually find Richard testing, improving, re-testing, improving again and re-testing again one of his many patented or soon to be patented designs.