Centara Grand Beach Resort & Villas Krabi in Thailand, which is set directly on the beach in a small bay that can only be reached by boat or along a pathway through the national park that surrounds the resort, has launched its own water-bottling plant.
The plant uses reverse osmosis, also known as hyper filtration, to remove particles as small as ions from a solution.
“Our bottling plant filters the water, which comes from underground wells, and uses renewable glass bottles rather than plastic bottles,” said David Good, vice president for operations at Centara Hotels & Resorts. “We save on unnecessary use of fuel in transporting bottled water by boat, and we do not have the environmental problem of disposing of plastic bottles.”
This is the first water-bottling plant for Centara in Thailand, and the brand is examining the possibility of a similar system being installed at other resort properties.