Hyderabad – As part of its environmental sustainability program, Park Hyatt Hyderabad partnered with WaterHealth India to set up a water purification cum glass bottling unit at its hotel premises. The state-of-the-art unit will provide purified WHO i.e. IS 10500 standard quality water in recyclable glass bottles to the hotel guests. This initiative, a fully automatic and IoT [Internet of Things] enabled glass bottling cum purification unit providing water in ‘super flint’ glass bottles, is the first of its kind in India and is expected to reduce single-use plastic waste at Park Hyatt Hyderabad.
Over 50 lakh tonnes of plastic waste are generated every year in India which are mostly disposed in landfills or water bodies. One of the biggest contributors to this waste is the use of PET bottles. “WaterHealth International is addressing this problem in two important ways. We are eliminating the need for single use plastics through our innovative safe drinking water services but equally importantly we are also enabling reverse logistics for plastic waste in the thousands of communities we work in”, said Mr. Sanjay Bhatnagar, CEO, WaterHealth International, USA.
The automated bottling plant uses IoT based technology to monitor [on a real-time basis] several key parameters i.e. cleanliness of water, pH and TDS [Total Dissolved Solids] of water, batch number, date of filling, etc. This technology also helps to predict plant maintenance frequency, thereby reducing the possibility of plant ‘down-time’.
Other than monitoring the water chemistry parameters at the plant, the QR code on the glass bottles (when scanned through a mobile phone) helps the consumers/users check the pH and TDS values of the purified water including the social, health, economic and environmental impact (by consuming a bottle of water).
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