Queensland’s Konia Australia has established a new international benchmark for high quality drinking water for the office and home through cutting-edge technology that extracts water from air.
It was invented in Queensland and the systems can provide either hot water or cold.
Managing director Len McKelvey said the company was now developing large commercial models for the international market, with smaller models for the home or office already available.
Mr McKelvey said any technology that relieved the pressure on water supply systems and simultaneously produced high quality drinking water would be widely accepted.
“These air-water filters have the potential to save six to eight per cent of every Australian household’s water consumption,” he said.
“The air-water purifiers do not need to be connected to the water supply because they extract the moisture from the air, process it through a sophisticated operation and then dispense pure hot or cold drinking water.”
Mr McKelvey said the largest model in the current range produced about 19 litres of water a day in an environment with a temperature averaging 25 degrees and humidity of 60 per cent.
“That’s more than enough to satisfy the requirements of an average family, small office or locations such as doctors’ surgeries,” he said.
Last reviewed 15 March 2006