A restaurant in Singapore highlights the growing trend of luxury establishments opting for on-site purified water systems instead of traditional bottled water. Nordaq, a Swedish company, provides these systems, aiming to reduce the environmental impact of single-use plastic bottles in the hospitality industry.
A restaurant charging nearly $500 per person for dinner only serves water from the Swedish company Nordaq . Executive Chef Martin Öfner said dishes and drinks at the restaurant are also made from the water, from its stocks to the juices in its non-alcoholic beverage pairings. The water, which is purified and bottled on-site using local tap water, is also present in more than 700 luxury hotels, casinos and cruise ships.
The company aims to reduce single-use water bottles in the hospitality industry — both the cheap plastic variety commonly found in hotel rooms, to glass-bottled European mineral water served in higher-end restaurants. Nordaq's bottles are free from plastic labeling so that they can be easily washed and reused, and they come with wide mouths so that they can be cleaned in regular dishwashers. Mandarin Oriental Singapore has had Nordaq's water system on tap since 2023, with bottles present in the hotel's rooms, restaurants, spa and gym. Hotel Manager Cindy Kong let CNBC Travel tour its bottling facility to see how the bottles are washed, inspected, filled and sealed. She said the facility can produce 500 bottles of purified water in an hour. Nordaq is one of many companies in the premium sustainable water business. Castalie water is present in more than 700 hotels in France, according to its website, while Purezza water is served in more than 5,000 venues across 13 countries, according to the company's LinkedIn page. The Indian hospitality company ITC Hotels created its own brand of'zero-mile' water called SunyaAqua to reduce single-use plastic bottles in its 140 hotels. 'Every guilt-free sip is bottled in-house, eliminating the need for transport,' New Delhi's ITC Maurya posted on Facebook in July
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