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Waterco Receives Environmental Products Awards at Splash


SPLASH! Environmental Awards Winners Announced

Waterco and Gosford Olympic Pool major winners

The SPLASH! Environmental Awards - the world's only environmental awards for the swimming pool, spa and aquatics industry - were presented at a gala dinner on the Gold Coast in late July.

In total, 19 winners, finalists and encouragement awards were handed out to all sectors of the industry - from pool designers and builders to pool shops, from local council pools to theme parks, from humble inventors to large international manufacturers.

The main awards were won by Waterco for their MultiCyclone pre-filter, taking out the SPLASH! Environmental Product of the Year Award; and Gosford Olympic Pool, which won the SPLASH! Environmental Project of the Year Award for its water and energy-friendly refurbishment.

The event was hosted by world famous Olympian, Steven Bradbury - the speed skater famed for being the "last man standing" in the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics.

Simon Cooper, organiser of the SPLASH! Trade Shows and publisher of SPLASH! Magazine, expressed his great pleasure at the success of this edition of the Awards.

With 57 entries, it was clear the Awards are gaining substantially in popularity, and it was also clear that many great advances had been made in that time, particularly with manufacturers.

Cooper also thanked the expert judging panel of Peter Seebacher, consultant for the Department of Climate Change, Julian Gray, CEO of Smart Approved WaterMark, David Hallet, General Manager of Archicentre and Alan Lewis, pool consultant for Aquazure.

He also thanked the sponsors, including Foundation Sponsor Sunbather who had supported the Awards from the very beginning; AstralPool, ClevaQuip, Phoenix Pool Equipment and Supreme Heating.

Foundation Sponsor, Simon Boadle of Sunbather Technologies, said over the past two years since the first SPLASH! Awards, the issue of environmental sustainability in the industry has gone from snail's pace to a gallop.

Boadle said that the attendance of nearly 170 people showed that support for the concept and the Awards is growing - and it is set to be a permanent event on the calendar.

The Awards: The aim of the SPLASH! Environmental Awards is to encourage and recognise environmental achievements in the Australasian swimming pool, spa and aquatics industry. The hope is that the Awards will encourage others to emulate the great work done by the winners and finalists; and also project a better image to the wider public though this recognition. For more information on the Awards: http://www.splashmagazine.com.au/Awards.aspx

SPLASH! Environmental Product of the Year

The major product award went to Waterco for its MultiCyclone pre-filter.

MultiCyclone is an Australian innovation which filters the water prior to it going to the main filters, reducing the load on the filter and therefore the amount of backwashing required.

An average sand filter may use more than 8000 litres for backwashing each a year. This can be vastly reduced by using the cyclonic pre-filter, which itself only needs 15 litres of water to purge. Potential water savings are estimated at about 7000 litres per year for an average pool.

The judges were impressed that this product is economically priced and as such is something that most existing and new pool owners could benefit from. The judges also wanted to make sure Pentair received a special mention for its Intelliflo VF pump

Lighting Product

Winner: Waterco for Britestream

The Britestream provides ample illumination for swimming pools which only use 15 per cent of the energy of an equivalent halogen light. The super bright LEDs are capable of delivering up to 352 lumens of light (for the white LED) while operating on only 15 watts of energy. Additionally, each LED has a lifespan of more than 70,000 hours (up to 35 times longer than a halogen light), reducing replacement needs and associated costs.




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