the landscape of bottled water is changing
SolarRain • straight from a cloud
Challenges to our planet’s natural ability to care for itself are ever-present.
And water is an issue in the forefront of sustainability efforts.
Freshwater supplies are diminishing, and clean water for an increasing world population is not universally available. Water rights are being fought over as access to supplies becomes more critical and disputes continue to increase.
We at SolarRain are doing our small part by drawing ocean water as our source,
and by
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• conserving freshwater resources
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• using renewable solar thermal energy
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• using BPA free 100% recyclable and biodegradable bottles
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• staying local to reduce our carbon footprint
To further care for our planet, we promote environmental responsibility, conservation and restorative efforts through education and through support of local organizations within our San Diego community.
We at SolarRain strive to apply sustainable principles wherever we can, saving what resources we can, today. We realize there is a long way to go to reach that “perfect day.” However, we are built on innovation, and are always in search of more efficient and effective ways to improve our product as well as our process.
Working for a more sustainable planet
is important.
Energy generated by fossil fuels is becoming an issue of greater concern.
That’s why SolarRain uses solar-generated thermal energy in its evaporative process.
Traditional desalination plants use reverse osmosis, an energy intensive process, and much of the energy
delivered to San Diego originates in coal.
Spring waters are pumped out of the ground at boreholes, then bottled and shipped for miles,
some even across oceans.
Purified waters or tap waters are extracted from municipal water reserves, challenging local water supplies.
These reserves are collected from watersheds, pumped for miles, and processed at water treatment plants which draw on traditional fossil fuel energy resources.
SolarRain uses highly efficient, evacuated solar tube technology to provide over 80% of our energy.
...a renewable energy resource, and a clean energy at that.
Our fresh water resources are becoming ever more scarce.
As San Diegans, we know our supply of fresh water is threatened; alternative water sources are becoming more attractive.
The bottled water landscape consists of spring / mineral water, purified / tap water, and now SolarRain, vaporized and purified ocean water.
(but the question is)
What water is best? Spring water or purified tap water?
Well actually, ocean water is best.
Spring water is groundwater, and represents only 1.7% of the earth’s water.
It is pumped from groundwater/spring sources that are being depleted at a rate faster than the earth’s aquifers can replenish themselves. Our population, and therefore demand, is increasing, but our fresh water resources are not. Spring water companies are often at odds with municipal authorities that want to protect resources for their local population instead of allowing these resources to be withdrawn and shipped to far-off places.
What about purified tap water, you ask? Tap water would be best if it were consistently clean and energy-efficient, but this is most often not the case. San Diego was even listed on the Environmental Working Group’s (EWG) list of 10 cities with the worst tap water. Tap water or municipal water, often travels a long way to get to us. It evaporates along the way, is pumped over mountains, and needs to be treated, which includes the addition of chlorine and fluoride. Tap water is partially filtered before it is delivered to you, although it’s not always as clean as one might think. Then there are those 100-year old (and often leaky) pipes through which it travels; this doesn’t help the contamination problem, either.
OK, so what about ocean water? Well, ocean water doesn’t deplete the aquifers and there’s plenty
of it. SolarRain water is local (no cross-country transportation), and it’s purified with vapor distillation by using an efficient type of solar thermal energy as its energy source. The system emulates nature’s water cycle of evaporation and condensation, converting salt water to pure fresh water, ready to be bottled and sold locally – by, for and in support of the San Diego community. Yeah! Go San Diego!
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Climate change will likely decrease the [Colorado] river’s flow by 5 to 20 percent in the next 40 years, says geoscientist Brad Udall, director of the University of Colorado Western Water Assessment.
Higher overall air temperatures will mean more water lost to evaporation.
People need a “fundamental, cultural attitude change about water supply in the Southwest,” says Patricia Mulroy, a board member of the Colorado-based Water Research Foundation.
“It’s not abundant, it’s not reliable, it’s not going to always be there.”