Water treatment, a virtuous practice that increases the value of the house while preserving the environment

Italy is no stranger to the consequences of climate change and the variations in the water cycle that affect the supply of water resources. While on a global scale, estimates indicate that over 40% of the population lives in areas with water shortages and about ¼ of the global GDP is exposed to this challenge, our country is undergoing the effects of climate change in terms of strong hydrological: rainfall is in fact increasingly unpredictable and extreme phenomena such as floods and droughts are increasingly frequent.

Responsible consumption

Faced with a scenario of this magnitude, it is important to adopt sustainable solutions that guarantee access to clean and safe water for current and future generations. Responsibility begins with each of us, in the awareness of how much we consume, how much we could save and how we can make our home or work environment efficient right away.
In short, the sustainability of a building does not pass only through the choice of construction materials and energy efficiency, but also affects the optimization of the water aspect. Every Italian consumes an average of 250 liters of drinking water a day, an enormous volume which, while guaranteeing a high standard of quality of our life, involves huge management costs.

The help of technology

For over 65 years, the companies that are part of the Aliaxis group have been supplying products for the correct management of water resources, from the supply to the adequate discharge of domestic and industrial wastewater. Thanks to the technologies of the Aliaxis group, today it is realistically possible to build a house capable of saving 50% of the average annual need for drinking water with standardized technologies, already available on the market and destined to pay for themselves over time thanks to economic savings, as well as the ecological advantage .

Rainwater, condensation from air conditioners and gray water from showers, washbasins and bidets can be reused for watering gardens, washing cars and flushing toilets, allowing you to preserve drinking water and reduce the impact of our homes on the environment. In particular, rainwater, free of mineral salts, can be used for washing machines, protecting them from the effects of limescale and reducing the amount of detergent.

Systems for the recovery of rainwater and the reuse of waste and waste water are the strengths of Aliaxis Italia’s capabilities, capable of responding to the need generated by the critical issues of our age linked to water. Aliaxis Italia technicians assist their customers from the system design phase to its installation and activation, making their know-how, qualified personnel, consultancy and continuous training available.

Strengthened by the experience in the field and the know-how gained over the years, today Aliaxis Italia offers the market innovative systems that look at the needs of both large users and small domestic users. The new Aliaxis REDI-branded systems for gray water recovery or those for rainwater recovery, for example, are characterized by their compactness and factory pre-assembly.

Installation is easier and safer, the machines are designed for very low maintenance and very low running costs, thanks to the presence of an automatic backwash system and easily accessible construction. The technological heart of the plant is the system used for fine filtration, defined as “ultrafiltration” thanks to the use of filtering micro-tubule filters capable of intercepting any pollutant including viruses, bacteria and colloids. The absence of mechanical stresses, present on the other hand in traditional mobile membrane filters, ensures a greater filtering capacity over time and the maintenance of the flow rates with less maintenance, which is in any case programmed during the installation phase.

The advantages, from those who design to those who buy

Each plant responds to a unique need, because the surrounding situations are unique: the territory with its hydrogeological characteristics, state and regional regulations, local regulations.

The ability to develop integrated and customized projects thanks to turnkey solutions is a guarantee for those who design, for those who install and for the end user.

The benefits for designers are manifested in the possibility of evaluating the most suitable solutions to simplify the design phase, have access to a level of energy certification and offer their customers the certainty of a property with a green soul also from a water point of view . Installers are guaranteed success and customer satisfaction thanks to the pre-assembled system ready for installation with reduced intervention times and site cleaning.

For the owners, a rainwater recovery or gray water reuse plant is an item destined to become increasingly important in the increase in value of the property, in the best level of energy certification and in the reduction of consumption, leading to a economic savings destined to grow over time. From the research on cost growth in the provincial capitals commissioned by the Ministry for Economic Development, it emerges that in 2021 the average increase in Italian tariffs for drinking water stood at 2.6% compared to the previous year, confirming the upward trend which in the decade 2010-2020 recorded an average increase of 54%, with peaks of 97.4% in central Italy. In terms of family budget, this means that a group of three people with an annual consumption of 192 cubic meters of water which in 2011 spent an average of 290 euros a year, in 2020 found itself spending 448 euros.

These projections demonstrate how even the choices to adopt technologies for water recovery, like those for the self-production of energy, can guarantee savings over time that immediately encourage the choice to make the place where you live or work more and more green .

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