CINTEP Aims to Prevent Water Scarcity Seen in Other Countries With Its Innovative Electric Shower Systems
Brisbane, Australia (PRWEB) April 24, 2014 -- CINTEP, designer and manufacturer of the most efficient shower systems in the world, recently underscored the need for developing countries to take a closer look at how it is managing its water systems. The cleantech company aims to help countries avert water shortage with its line of multiple award-winning electric shower systems for commercial and residential use.
Water scarcity, according to the World Health Organization fact files, affects one in three people on every continent around the world (http://www.who.int/features/factfiles/water/water_facts/en/index1.html). In developing countries like China, the lack of water has become an everyday reality, as some villagers in Western China only bathe once a month or even not at all because of water scarcity. Meanwhile, China’s Ministry of Water Resources reveals that 300 rural residents have insufficient access to safe drinking water (http://www.mwr.gov.cn/english/sdw.html) and 400 out of 663 cities are dealing with water shortage (http://www.mwr.gov.cn/english/cpws.html), with the affected 40 million people coming from the urban population.
Water crises like these only strengthen CINTEP’s goal to continue to innovate and build efficient shower systems. The Brisbane-based cleantech company’s patented recycling shower technology has shown reductions in water consumption by 70 percent.
Invented by industrial designer Peter Brewin, who is also co-founder and director at CINTEP, the patented shower system also uses less energy than traditional showers without having to reduce flow rate at the showerhead, water pressure, and water temperature. Essentially, the CINTEP shower system, while only using about 2.7 litres per minute, does not diminish the simple pleasure of showering.
CINTEP’s patented system captures shower water before it reaches the drain then pumps it through a recirculation circuit, which features three separate types of filter and a pasteurisation system. The entire filtration and pasteurisation process happens in less than 25 seconds.
Nick Christy, co-founder and chief executive officer of CINTEP, further explains, “Every shower starts with three litres of fresh drinking water. When it is running, it recycles your shower water from right now. This can never be more dirty than you were when you stepped in the shower. The recycled water is filtered three times, heat pasteurised, diluted with 30 percent fresh drinking water, and then immediately reused.”
The CINTEP CEO adds, “When you turn the shower off, it will drain completely and cannot be restarted until it has drained. The next user gets three litres of fresh drinking water to start their shower. We never store water in the shower. You never get someone else’s shower water.”
In addition to the 70 percent water reduction that CINTEP’s shower system provides, the cleantech company’s patented technology also reduces running costs at 70 percent lower than traditional showers.
In spite of being a water-rich country, the levels of pollution and the uneven distribution are projected to bring a water crisis in China. CINTEP says that this impending problem is why showering in China cannot possibly be the same as how westerners would shower — with their power showers and long hot baths. With 95 percent less water per person than in the US, developing countries like China need to start using efficient means to distribute water to cities and rural areas.
While using better means to shower may sound like the simplest approach to China’s water scarcity, CINTEP believes that the simplest step backed by sound technology could deliver a positive impact.
As hundreds or thousands of litres are wasted by inefficient shower systems and resources becoming barely sufficient for everyone, highly industrialised nations like China need to start implementing water saving strategies today.
For more of CINTEP’s patented and efficient showers for commercial use and residential use, visit the Brisbane-based cleantech company’s website — and join in CINTEP’s effort to prevent water scarcity and save a billion litres of water by 2016.
Nick Christy, CINTEP, http://www.recyclingshower.com.au/, +61 416495351, [email protected]
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