
Industry: Restaurant
Problem: The establishment on average spent over $2.00 per litre for bottled water including transport and empty bottle disposal.
Regular water supply interruptions due to breakages in municipal water supply.
Solution: A CWM300 unit was installed resulting in astronomic drop in cost to $0.20 per litre, an astonishing 90% saving, after considering transport and disposal costs!
Prior Solution
Client used 125 litres of bottled drinking water per day for guests and 120 litres of desalinated water per day for staff.
5 litre and 500ml plastic bottled water was ordered monthly, trucked to port and sailed to the island.
Plastic bottles were stored in a hot environment, running the risk of BPA’s leaching into the water.
Empty plastic bottles were sailed off the island to the mainland for disposal.
Average cost for bottled water including transport and empty bottle disposal was $2.00 per litre.
Cirrus Solution
Client uses 245 litres of drinking water per day for guests and staff since the installation of the Cirrus Solution.
A CWM300 unit was installed near the kitchen, with a small bottling plant filling branded reusable glass bottles.
The glass bottles are used throughout the lodge with no transport or disposal issues.
The Total Cost of Ownership over a five-year period was calculated at $0.20 per litre, an astonishing 90% saving, after considering transport and disposal costs!
Logistics
Regular stock counts to determine when to re-order water.
Receiving, storing and distributing of the bottles was cumbersome and time consuming.
Resolutions Logistics
No more stock counts and water reordering is required.
The water is filled in branded and reusable glass bottles on site.
health
Concerns of plastic containers leaching dangerous BPA’s into the water
The supplier’s promises of the quality of the plastic bottled water was questionable.
Health
Cirrus water is freshly bottled into glass bottles, eliminating the concerns of questionable quality bottled water and BPA’s leaching into the water.
Sustainability
Large carbon footprint associated with the transport of the bottled water and from the plastics used.
Sustainability
Because Cirrus water is made on-site, it has a greatly reduced carbon footprint.
Financial
Plastic bottled water is costly due to the transportation and associated disposal costs.
Financial
Fuel costs and disposal costs do not affect Cirrus water as the water is made on site.





ROI AND BREAK-EVEN POINT
Capital Investment: R150,000
Monthly Saving: 56%
Break-even point: 24 months
Nett Savings over five years: R505,000