FAQs - PaquaVida
Poor quality water has the potential to cause gastro-intestinal diseases which can quickly spread. Our systems do not use any hazardous chemicals and can draw from any fresh water source, such as lakes, rivers, streams and ponds, even those that are heavily contaminated, to give safe, fresh drinking water and sanitation where they are needed most.
All our sustainable water purification systems have potent bactericidal and extractive properties, offering a wide range of natural and highly effective applications to the farming industry.
PaquaVida improves soil quality and growing conditions, increases crop quality and yield, safely disinfects grain and prevents disease, prolongs shelf life of vegetables and fruit, purifies irrigation water for crop spraying, and controls pests.
By providing fresh, clean drinking water, our system ensures a healthier better quality livestock, and helps to reduce disease.
The unit eliminates physico-chemical and bacterial contamination through a combination of pre-filtration and the main PaquaVida unit technologies. The PaquaVida process generates an onboard disinfection product called PaquaLyte, which provides a disinfectant solution that kills bacteria as water passes through the unit and minimises biofilm formation using ultra-filtration membrane technology. Our unit produces clean drinking water, meeting local drinking water standards such as EU98/83.
PaquaVida has very low energy requirements and can be run from solar and/or wind turbine power, so will operate completely off-grid or in remote locations.
The PaquaVida system eliminates the biofilm and scale within the system and the residue Paqualyte in the cleaned potable water will over time clean the existing infrastructure pipework our systems deliver to.
Running costs are a fraction of the cost of buying water in, so people can move away from transported tanked water, or move their current water treatment system to this more sustainable option.
Maintenance requirements are minimal as the system is completely autonomous. It just needs the occasional top-up of salt for onboard disinfection production. The system produces a – biocide disinfection solution called PaquaLyte, which is automatically injected into the water flow in the unit that eliminates biofilm in the pipework and membranes that is the major cause of water filtration systems.
Yes, our sustainable PaquaVida system employs electrolysis and filtration for water purification, without the use of any hazardous chemicals. PaquaLyte is produced automatically as part of the PaquaVida water purification process, therefore reducing the need for additional transportation to the system. Paqualyte will revert back to water and small amount of salt if spilt. Additionally, our PaquaLyte bottles and containers are refillable to reduce waste.