Home and Garden Awards 2020

5 2020 Home And Garden Awards BUILD Jan20212 Best Water Purification Technology Company 2020 It’s becoming widespread knowledge that our oceans are polluted, but what about the water that we drink? Bluewater Group, recently awarded Best Water Purification Technology Company 2020, has the solution to ensure that fresh, pure and unadulterated water can now be available to everyone, everywhere! ew of us spare much thought to how the water spouting from our taps has gotten there. Yet existing water delivery and treatment systems around the globe, in developed and developing nations alike, are under threat from fast growing urban populations, decaying infrastructure and climate change, putting our quality of life on the line. By 2025, the United Nations says there will be over 37 megacities globally with populations well over ten million. Four of those cities will be in North America – Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City and Washington-Baltimore. However, in most countries around the world the drinking water delivery system is growing old fast. In the USA, as much as 30 percent of pipes in systems that deliver water to over 100,000 people are between 40 to 80 years old, according to the EPA. And about 10 percent are even older. The U.S. Water Quality Association (WQA) says ‘water that leaves the treatment facility can become contaminated by the time it shows up at your tap’. The WQA view is supported by Consumer Reports that says ‘dangerous contaminants such as lead, chloroform, arsenic, nitrate, nitrite, radon, and E. coli bacteria are common in tap water’. The truth is that municipal water treatment plants, just about anywhere in the world, do not remove all the chemical and pharmaceutical residues that are building up in our water supply. Bluewater is a world leader in innovating, manufacturing, and commercialising water purification technologies and solutions for residential and public use. Launched in 2013 by founder and executive chairperson Bengt Rittri, one of Sweden’s leading environmental entrepreneurs, the Bluewater philosophy is driven by the desire to innovate the world’s best water purifiers because, in Bengt’s words, ‘everyone is entitled to drink water free of contaminants.’ Bluewater has put providing clean water access to everyone on the planet and ending reliance on single-use plastics at the heart of its business vision. Bengt, who founded the Stockholm-based company, has made it Bluewater’s mission to reimagine point-of- use water delivery. Believing the health of the planet demands imaginative thinking to halt the vast tide of plastic waste that sees over one million plastic bottles sold every minute, Bluewater has committed to harness human ingenuity to provide more people globally with on-demand clean drinking water in ways that can help end to the need for throwaway plastic bottles. The firm’s water purifiers F and public hydration stations are today available in Europe, the United States, China, South East Asia and South Africa, where they are helping to shape a more sustainable and water-wise future to safeguard human and planetary health. Bluewater uses a world-leading, patented next-generation reverse osmosis technology, called SuperiorOsmosis™, meaning that its water purifiers remove virtually all pollutants, including chemicals, microplastics, toxic metals, and limescale from drinking and washing water. This reverse osmosis technology delivers unmatched powerhouse clean water delivery performance with up to 80% less wastewater compared to traditional systems. Apart from cleaning tap water of all known water contaminants, Bluewater’s advanced solutions are also able to purify water that is considered undrinkable and turn it into pure water, and then re-mineralise it for good health. In just over two years, Bluewater hydration stations have become a common sight at a growing number of sporting, music and other events around the world that have made a commitment to promote sustainability. At The Open golf tournament in Portrush, Northern Ireland in July 2019, Bluewater hydration stations helped the organiser, the prestigious R&A, avoid the need for over 100,000 single-use plastic bottles over the four-day tournament by serving purified water on demand to visitors. Bluewater hydration stations also helped the Volvo Ocean Race significantly reduce, if not completely eliminate, single-use plastic in the Race Villages of the 12 host cities, ensuring the need for over 388,000 plastic bottles of water was avoided. With regards to the future, Bluewater shows no signs of trickling out as public awareness, and the demand for clean, pure water, grows. Contact Details Company: Bluewater Web Address: www.bluewatergroup.com Battling single use plastic bottles. Bluewater hydration stations and bottles help keep visitors to events around the globe well hydrated.