Homegrown innovation offers lifeline in water emergencies
Amid water outages that present a full-blown operational crisis affecting hospitals, schools, businesses and households, South African company Damsak Reservoirs offers a rapid-to-install drinking-grade water storage solution.
Practical, fast-acting solutions are required amid rolling water shortages and stretched municipal resources.
One such solution is the Damsak Water Storage, a homegrown innovation offering a 500 000 ℓ bladder tank designed for emergency deployment and commercial-scale resilience.
“The demand is urgent. Businesses cannot operate without water – it is that simple. Damsak was engineered for exactly this type of scenario,” says Damsak Reservoirs cofounder Dawid Bredenkamp.
Damsak’s bladder system can be rapidly installed, requiring minimal setup time and no major civil works, and can be deployed in virtually any open space.
“This makes it particularly useful for sensitive sites such as hospitals and clinics needing safe water for patients and hygiene, schools where learning has already been disrupted by sanitation issues, manufacturing plants and office parks that rely on uninterrupted operations and residential complexes and estates left without reserve supply.”
Damsak requires no municipal approval, can be transported anywhere and is environment-friendly, owing to its UV-resistant, reusable structure.
The bladder’s half-a-million-litre capacity is equivalent to about 200 households’ daily water needs, or a week’s worth of operations for many mid-sized businesses.
“Water is no longer a guaranteed municipal service – it has become a resilience issue. That means business owners, facility managers and school administrators must start thinking in terms of backup infrastructure. Damsak is that infrastructure,” Bredenkamp concludes.
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