Wataire Industries Distributor Featured On Belize Channel 7 News
Tuesday June 13, 8:30 am ET
VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 13, 2006--Wataire Industries Inc. (Pink Sheets:WTAF - News) is pleased to announce on June 8, 2006 AWC Blue Lagoon Wataire Industries distributor in Belize was featured on the evening news in Belize City, Belize. The article in part posted on Belize Channel 7 website is as follows:
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Sky Juice Now For Sale in Belize
posted (June 8, 2006)
H20, it is colorless and odorless but taste does matter when it comes to purified water and that is what sent us investigating our next story. It is about water falling from the sky and today 7NEWS got a taste of the real sky juice.
Keith Swift Reporting,
What is the difference between these two five-gallon bottles of water? It's hard to tell by just looking but this one came from a river somewhere and this one ... well it came from the air.
We got the river water from the store but the air or humidified water came from this address on Mopan Street in Belize City. There is no reservoir, no river, and no large production facility there. In fact all they have in the yard is this machine valued at US$120,000. It's called an atmospheric water generator.
Walter Brown,
It takes the humidity and it converts the humidity into water. What it does there is, as you can see, we have to filter the air to make sure there are no particles and then it goes on to the coils. The coils then produce the water with the compressor. We save the water in a drip pan and then we treat the water with the filters.
If we use the water, it will make some more as long as the machine is running. However, if we do not use all that water, every two hours it will go through that cycle and it will always give you clean pure drinking water."
A large unit like the one operating on Mopan Street can produce about 700 gallons of water per day. And on a day like today -- when the humidity is high -- it can probably produce more.
Walter Brown,
"These machines are mobile and I think in terms of hurricanes when we don't have water, I think this is the ideal thing to make sure we have it."
Brown and his business partner Ted Dowse have no immediate plans to expand nationally. They are marketing these mini atmospheric units. The companies also retail to customers like Christian Whyte who we met today filling up two 5 gallon bottles.
Ted Dowse.
"What we do is probably produce the finest drinking water that you can produce."
Christian Whyte, Customer
"I tried this water and I just keep coming back 'cause the water is good. The taste is unique. The water is very good." And while this is water from air, believe me that doesn't make it any lighter!!
Max Weissengruber, Wataire Industries President stated that "The Belize experience underscores our company's belief that, for many parts of the globe, using the abundance of moisture in the air is a new and often better way to meet drinking water needs. With surface and ground water sources increasingly contaminated and difficult to treat, atmospheric water generation makes sense and can produce safe drinking water efficiently and economically." |
