Press coverage Bluewater in the media Categories Archive 2019 2018 2020 MEET THE ENTREPRENEURS REIMAGINING A WATER-RESILIENT FUTURE August 14, 2019 | Medium Urban communities are at the frontlines of the global water crisis. While Chennai grapples with a worsening water shortage, Day Zero has become a reality for a majority of the city’s 10 million residents. Cape Town averted the unthinkable in 2018, but conservation measures remain in place and long-term resilience uncertain. As recent as 2014, São Paulo, Latin America’s largest city, almost ran out of water. The pressures faced by cities will continue to build. By 2050, the UN estimates that an additional 2.5 billion people will be living in urban areas. Read more HOW THE R&A ERADICATED SINGLE-USE PLASTIC WATER BOTTLES FROM THE OPEN 2019 August 1, 2019 | The Sustainability Report The connection between golf’s oldest major and the coast made tackling marine pollution ‘a very fitting topic’. Philip Russell, the governing body’s assistant director of sustainability, explains how it was done. Golf is facing a fight for its future. Increased rainfall, extreme weather events, coastal erosion and rising sea levels are either resulting in extended periods of course closure or posing an existential threat. Read more BRITAIN’S OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP GOES PLASTIC-FREE August 1, 2019 | CNN The Open Championship became the first of men’s golf’s majors to end the use of single-use plastic water bottles for players and spectators alike. NEW STUDY REVEALS INCREASED THREAT FROM MICROPLASTICS IN TREATED WATER July 26, 2019 | Green Living Guy Bluewater, a global leader in water purification technology and solutions. They are calling for urgent new strategies to tackle plastics pollution. Because after a UK university study revealed water treatment processes exacerbate plastics. They help to break down microplastics into nanoplastics. Read more BRITAIN’S OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP GOES PLASTIC-FREE July 22, 2019 | CNN The Open Championship became the first of men’s golf’s majors to end the use of single-use plastic water bottles for players and spectators alike. Read more BRITISH OPEN 2019: YOU MIGHT BE SURPRISED AT WHAT’S MISSING AT THIS YEAR’S OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP July 21, 2019 | GolfDigest Gaze to the north of Royal Portrush Golf Club and there’s water as far as your eyes will take you. At least, that is, when your head isn’t stuck under an umbrella dodging the rain that comes and goes almost daily in these parts. Water, water, everywhere. But at this year’s Open Championship, there is one place you won’t find it: being sold on the Dunluce Links. Read more THE OPEN AND BLUEWATER REDEFINE HOW MAJOR EVENTS CAN SHAPE A MORE SUSTAINABLE FUTURE July 21, 2019 | Golf Daily The R&A has taken the initiative to demonstrate a here-and-now solution that will redefine how major events can shape new business models that help shape a sustainable future that’s good for the planet and humans alike Visitors to The 148th Open golf championship in Portrush, Northern Ireland, will notice a remarkable new addition to the prestigious event – cool looking personal stainless steel refillable water bottles that are being carried by thousands of visitors to Royal Portrush instead of previously used single-use plastic water bottles. Read more THE OPEN AND BLUEWATER REDEFINE HOW MAJOR EVENTS CAN SHAPE A MORE SUSTAINABLE FUTURE July 20, 2019 | Benzinga Visitors to The 148th Open golf championship in Portrush, Northern Ireland, will notice a remarkable new addition to the prestigious event – cool looking personal stainless steel refillable water bottles that are being carried by thousands of visitors to Royal Portrush instead of previously used single-use plastic water bottles. Read more SVENSKA FÖRETAGET SAMARBETAR MED THE OPEN July 19, 2019 | Svensk Golf Över 237 000 åskådare kommer i veckan befinna sig på Royal Portrush under The Open-veckan. Ingen av dem kommer dricka vatten ur plastflaskor. Detta tack vare svenska företaget Bluewater. Det är inte bara de svenska spelarna som är en del av årets Open Championship på Royal Portrush. Tusentals åskådare njuter under veckan av iskallt, renat, vatten som produceras av svenska företaget Bluewater. Read more COULD THIS BE THE GREENEST OPEN? R&A ANSWERS THIRST FOR CHANGE BY COMMITTING TO FUTURE-PROOF ENTIRE SPORT July 19, 2019 | The Telegraph The most observant of viewers will have noticed a subtle but groundbreaking change at this year’s Open. The players can all be seen sipping on their own rather stylish, laser engraved and personalised stainless steel water bottles that have been introduced for the first time as part of a push to make this the greenest of all major golf events. Read more 1 … 3 4 5 … 16
MEET THE ENTREPRENEURS REIMAGINING A WATER-RESILIENT FUTURE August 14, 2019 | Medium Urban communities are at the frontlines of the global water crisis. While Chennai grapples with a worsening water shortage, Day Zero has become a reality for a majority of the city’s 10 million residents. Cape Town averted the unthinkable in 2018, but conservation measures remain in place and long-term resilience uncertain. As recent as 2014, São Paulo, Latin America’s largest city, almost ran out of water. The pressures faced by cities will continue to build. By 2050, the UN estimates that an additional 2.5 billion people will be living in urban areas. Read more
HOW THE R&A ERADICATED SINGLE-USE PLASTIC WATER BOTTLES FROM THE OPEN 2019 August 1, 2019 | The Sustainability Report The connection between golf’s oldest major and the coast made tackling marine pollution ‘a very fitting topic’. Philip Russell, the governing body’s assistant director of sustainability, explains how it was done. Golf is facing a fight for its future. Increased rainfall, extreme weather events, coastal erosion and rising sea levels are either resulting in extended periods of course closure or posing an existential threat. Read more
BRITAIN’S OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP GOES PLASTIC-FREE August 1, 2019 | CNN The Open Championship became the first of men’s golf’s majors to end the use of single-use plastic water bottles for players and spectators alike.
NEW STUDY REVEALS INCREASED THREAT FROM MICROPLASTICS IN TREATED WATER July 26, 2019 | Green Living Guy Bluewater, a global leader in water purification technology and solutions. They are calling for urgent new strategies to tackle plastics pollution. Because after a UK university study revealed water treatment processes exacerbate plastics. They help to break down microplastics into nanoplastics. Read more
BRITAIN’S OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP GOES PLASTIC-FREE July 22, 2019 | CNN The Open Championship became the first of men’s golf’s majors to end the use of single-use plastic water bottles for players and spectators alike. Read more
BRITISH OPEN 2019: YOU MIGHT BE SURPRISED AT WHAT’S MISSING AT THIS YEAR’S OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP July 21, 2019 | GolfDigest Gaze to the north of Royal Portrush Golf Club and there’s water as far as your eyes will take you. At least, that is, when your head isn’t stuck under an umbrella dodging the rain that comes and goes almost daily in these parts. Water, water, everywhere. But at this year’s Open Championship, there is one place you won’t find it: being sold on the Dunluce Links. Read more
THE OPEN AND BLUEWATER REDEFINE HOW MAJOR EVENTS CAN SHAPE A MORE SUSTAINABLE FUTURE July 21, 2019 | Golf Daily The R&A has taken the initiative to demonstrate a here-and-now solution that will redefine how major events can shape new business models that help shape a sustainable future that’s good for the planet and humans alike Visitors to The 148th Open golf championship in Portrush, Northern Ireland, will notice a remarkable new addition to the prestigious event – cool looking personal stainless steel refillable water bottles that are being carried by thousands of visitors to Royal Portrush instead of previously used single-use plastic water bottles. Read more
THE OPEN AND BLUEWATER REDEFINE HOW MAJOR EVENTS CAN SHAPE A MORE SUSTAINABLE FUTURE July 20, 2019 | Benzinga Visitors to The 148th Open golf championship in Portrush, Northern Ireland, will notice a remarkable new addition to the prestigious event – cool looking personal stainless steel refillable water bottles that are being carried by thousands of visitors to Royal Portrush instead of previously used single-use plastic water bottles. Read more
SVENSKA FÖRETAGET SAMARBETAR MED THE OPEN July 19, 2019 | Svensk Golf Över 237 000 åskådare kommer i veckan befinna sig på Royal Portrush under The Open-veckan. Ingen av dem kommer dricka vatten ur plastflaskor. Detta tack vare svenska företaget Bluewater. Det är inte bara de svenska spelarna som är en del av årets Open Championship på Royal Portrush. Tusentals åskådare njuter under veckan av iskallt, renat, vatten som produceras av svenska företaget Bluewater. Read more
COULD THIS BE THE GREENEST OPEN? R&A ANSWERS THIRST FOR CHANGE BY COMMITTING TO FUTURE-PROOF ENTIRE SPORT July 19, 2019 | The Telegraph The most observant of viewers will have noticed a subtle but groundbreaking change at this year’s Open. The players can all be seen sipping on their own rather stylish, laser engraved and personalised stainless steel water bottles that have been introduced for the first time as part of a push to make this the greenest of all major golf events. Read more