Quooker eco-friendly boiling water tap saves time and electricity

(09/01/2009)

Envirowise, funded by the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, reveals that more than 30 billion cups of water are unnecessarily boiled each year in the workplace. Making tea in a cup with hot-water from a kettle increases greenhouse gas emissions, it is also costly and wasteful of precious water resources.

‘Office workers getting rounds of hot drinks should only boil the water they are going to use,’ they advise. Their resource-saving initiatives include appointing tea monitors to ensure that no-one overfills the kettle, using a teapot instead of adding teabags to cups and resurrecting the old-fashioned tea urn.

But even more efficient would be to install a boiling water tap that dispenses the precise amount of filtered water where and when you want it. The only brand to supply instant boiling water at 100ºC, the Quooker provides the perfect solution for offices small or large with three-, seven- or eleven-litre vacuum tanks that sit snugly under a sink and a tap, which is situated above on the worktop, that features a childproof push-and-turn mechanism. Unlike a kettle, the Quooker is impossible to pull down or knock over, so it also helps to reduce the risk of health and safety incidents in the workplace.

‘We are delighted that there’s a growing awareness of energy-saving in the workplace,’ says Quooker MD Stephen Johnson. ‘Our eco-friendly boiling water tap is as useful in an office environment as it is in a domestic situation. It allows employees to save time, electricity and money and no-one can argue with that!’

Available from high-end kitchen studios nationwide, The Quooker starts at £790.

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