Minairal

The bottle that is never produced.

The case for producing water where it is drunk is arithmetic, not a slogan. So the arithmetic is published, with what it assumes.

Two hands on a marble table, one holding a glass of water, the other a plastic bottle

What a site stops buying.

Every litre produced on site is a litre that was never bottled, never shipped across the country or to an island, never chilled on the way and never collected afterwards.

The figures below assume two litres per person per day, in half-litre bottles. Change the format and they change.

What it means in practice: drinking water systems for hotels and resorts, drinking water for offices, and how air-to-water compares with reverse osmosis and bottled water.

1,460bottles per person, per year
730litres per person, produced on site each year
73,000bottles a year on a site of fifty people
0deliveries for an Air system

Beyond the bottle.

Transport removed
An Air system takes water delivery off the site entirely. On an island, where every litre arrives by boat and then truck, that is the largest effect.
Built to be repaired
Systems are serviced, refurbished and returned to use. Consumables are replaced on schedule, not the unit.
Parts in country
Three centres inside Thailand, several hundred parts in stock. No shipping equipment abroad.
Less handling
No bottle storage, no delivery coordination, no stock-outs.
Spare parts and filters on the shelves of the Minairal workshop
A glass of water on a restaurant table

Reusable glass.

For guest-facing areas, a 500 mL glass bottle replaces single-use plastic on the table, in the room or at the desk. Optional, and it can carry your own branding.

From the blog.

  • Beach covered in plastic waste with fishing boats offshore

    Plastic water bottles and pollution

    The environmental cost of single-use bottles and the greener alternatives.

    Read the article
  • Rows of plastic water bottles with blue caps stacked in a shop

    Sparkling Water at Home vs Bottled Soda: Cost per Litre and Plastic Saved

    Sparkling water at home or bottled soda: cost per litre worked out from shop prices, the bottles a household stops buying each year, and what to check first.

    Read the article
  • Plastic bottles floating on polluted water

    How air-to-water is replacing bottled water in Thailand

    The plastic problem, and what one system replaces each year.

    Read the article

Put your own numbers on it.

Tell us how many people drink water on your site. We come back with the bottles, the litres and a system sized to match.