If in 2010 there were only 213, today their number has increased tenfold. They allow saving and protecting nature, avoiding the production of millions of plastic bottles and the consumption of carbon dioxide for their transport
They deliver chilled and controlled water, smooth or sparkling, and reduce plastic consumption. The water houses in Italy are more and more numerous: today, as Aqua Italia tells us, the association of water treatment plant manufacturers, in view of the UN World Food Day (scheduled October 16), there are over two thousand.
Water houses on the territory
The spread of these plants has been increasingly rapid: if in 2010 there were only 213, today their number has increased tenfold. The regions with more kiosks are Lombardy, which was the first to offer them, and which has 574, Lazio with 271, Piedmont with 233, Emilia-Romagna with 181 and Tuscany with 150. But the plants are more and more numerous also in the center and in the south: in Abruzzo there are 90, in the Marche 79 and in Umbria 67. The kiosks are more common in the North than in the South, and generally more in small municipalities than in the big cities.
How much you save (even in environmental costs)
Water is distributed free or at a low cost: in 36% of the plants, the cost is 5 cents per liter, for chilled and sparkling water. The kiosks draw on the municipal aqueduct: the one they distribute is safe water, which often improve further filtering any corpuscles, sand and chlorine and disinfecting it with ultraviolet lamps. They can add carbon dioxide and refrigerate it.
But the most significant contribution of the kiosks is to protect the environment: each plant, from which an average of 300,000 liters of water is taken each year, allows avoid the production of 200 thousand bottles from a liter and a half in Pet (the plastic that is used to bottle water and drinks), which correspond to 60 thousand pounds less (each bottle weighs 30 grams), and save 1380 kilos of carbon dioxide for their production and 7800 kilos for bottle transport. For the benefit of nature, and therefore also for ourselves.
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