Vesi Water dispenser trial

Image: L-R Jerick Perez, Matt UNE SMART Region Incubator and Professor Amir Karton, Associate Dean Research for the Faculty of Science, Agriculture, Business and Law at UNE.

UNE has entered into a trial with New England’s ‘Outstanding Startup’ award winner (2022), Vesi Water, to deliver pure water at the Armidale Campus.

Vesi’s technology efficiently harvests pure water from the air. It mimics the earth’s natural water cycle, transporting water as a vapor and enabling a sustainable solution.

Did you know? …

“At any moment the atmosphere contains more than 142 trillion litres of water or 6 times more than all the freshwater rivers and lakes on the planet and it is replenished every 10 days!”

Vesi’s water dispensers take the air through a 3-stage air filtration system before condensing the water. The water is then passed through a 4-stage filtration process and final UV treatment in the storage reservoir to ensure the water is of the purest quality and balanced pH. No chemicals are used in the process. The water is ‘soft’ and as such tastes very refreshing.

This is a UNE sustainability initiative, and we encourage everyone to ‘bring your own bottle’ (BYOB) and try the pure water from Vesi’s dispensers located on the ground floor of Dixon Library and in the Lazenby/UNE Life foyer next to the vending machine.

The dispensers are easy to use, with instructions located on the top of the machine, along with a brief outline of the Vesi Water quality and AWG process. We encourage feedback which can be accessed by scanning the QR code on the top of the dispenser.

This story originally appeared in Pulse News, by UNE.