Water infrastructure that earns and protects.
South Africa's tap water trust is declining. Bottled water is expensive and wasteful. AquaNode is the third option.
The context
The South African water situation
Trust in municipal tap water has fallen sharply over the last decade. Residents have responded by buying bottled water and home-delivered 5L jugs at significant cost and environmental footprint. The market for bottled water in South Africa has grown year-on-year — but it remains an expensive, inconvenient, plastic-intensive solution.
AquaNode is the third option: in-building, hospital-grade purified water, sold per litre at a fraction of bottled prices, with zero single-use plastic.
Industry data
Bottled water: 2% of global beverage sales in 1990.
Now 20%.
A 10× increase in three decades. The market keeps growing — AquaNode redirects that spend into something that benefits the building and the planet.
Quality standard
Hospital-grade. Tested. Certified.
Ongoing monitoring
In-house TDS & pH testing, logged to your dashboard.
Quarterly SANS
Accredited laboratory water quality testing aligned with SANS 241.
Predictive filter replacement
Litre counter triggers filter replacement before quality drops.
ESG reporting
Every Water Bar generates exportable ESG data for your reporting.
Bottles displaced per building per year (worst → best case)
Plastic produced — residents bring their own containers
Quality benchmark every quarter
All metrics exportable for stakeholder reports