Visitors guzzle 105,000 tons of purified H2O at Expo

• Source: Global Times
• [08:54 September 08 2010]
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Visitors at the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai have consumed an incredible 105,000 tons of water provided by direct-drinkable water supply devices since the six-month gala began on May 1.

The amount of water guzzled by visitors surpassed expectations due to  soaring temperatures during the sultry summer days over the past two months in city, said Expo organizers yesterday.

The water used was the equivalent of 210 million 0.5-liter plastic bottles, estimated Zhu Xiangjun, a senior manager with the Litree Company, the authorized direct-drinkable water device provider based in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen.

Theoretically, this means that the pollution that might have been caused by more than 200 million plastic bottles has been avoided, said Zhu. Organizers approximated that over the past two months, every visitor to the Expo drank two liters of water each day. They forecast that visitors will drink a total of 165,000 tons of water provided by direct-drinkable water devices inside the Expo Park for the entire six-month show.

According to Expo organizers, direct-drinkable water provided at the park has been treated with the same super-filtering technology used during the disaster relief work that followed the 8.0-magnitude earthquake in southwestern Sichuan Province in 2008, and for the water provided for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

Xinhua