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Climate Leaders

How to preserve our planet’s resources by using inno­v­a­tive and sustain­able water treat­ment

At BWT we are proud to be able to contribute with our sustain­able tech­nolo­gies and prod­ucts to preserve our planet’s most precious resource: water. Our slogan “For You and Planet Blue” perfectly expresses our mission and our recently defined “BWT Innovations4Future” Strategy – with Fuel Cell Membrane Tech­nolo­gies and the BWT Aqua Pearls For You & Planet Blue Foun­da­tion – which under­lines our focus on sustain­able prod­ucts and solu­tions to change our plastic planet into planet blue again.

BWT has been elected along with 49 other inter­na­tional compa­nies to partic­i­pate in the “50 Sustain­ability & Climate Leaders” initia­tive, hosted by Bloomberg, the world­wide leading busi­ness and finance network, and the United Nations. This campaign uses inspiring documentary-​​​style films to iden­tify and cele­brate the leading orga­ni­za­tions and pioneers in their respec­tive indus­tries around the globe, who are recog­nizing the sustain­able chal­lenges we face on our planet.

Wood and River
Wood and River
Water is our elixir of life and one of the major chal­lenges of the 21st century. Since its foun­da­tion in 1990 BWT’s mission is to ensure the highest level of safety, hygiene, health, and well-​being in daily contact with water with economic and ecolog­ical water treat­ment tech­nolo­gies. Today, the Best Water Tech­nology Group is Europe's leading water tech­nology company. Around 5,000 employees work towards the goal of providing customers from private house­holds, industry, commerce, hotels and munic­i­pal­i­ties with modern and sustain­able treat­ment systems and service for drinking water, phar­ma­ceu­tical and process water, heating water, boiler, cooling and air-​condi­tioning water, and swim­ming pool water with optimum water quality for all areas of appli­ca­tion - from the source to the leachate.
70%
of the Earth is covered by water
97.5%
of our natural water is salt water
0.8%
is drinking water, without being treated
"Water is the common elixir of life and one of the mighty chal­lenges of the 21st century, we like to contribute and make the world a little better sip by sip by using local water resources."
Andreas Weißenbacher, CEO BWT

Use local Water – avoid single-​use plastic bottles

BWT's declared goal is to provide water of perfect drinking water quality every­where in the world. With inno­v­a­tive, patented BWT tech­nolo­gies, it is possible to filter local water and at the same time enrich it with valu­able minerals and trace elements such as magne­sium, zinc, and sili­cate. Thanks to BWT, great-​tasting, miner­al­ized water of the best quality comes directly from the tap, the water dispenser, or the table water filter. This saves the time-​consuming trans­port, storage, and disposal of water bottles and thus helps reducing trans­port, CO2 emis­sions and plastic waste.

Lokales Wasser Lokales Wasser
"For me fuel cell is not only the energy converter of the 21st century, it is also the most effi­cient solu­tion to produce in the sustain­able way energy and heat. It is our common respon­si­bility to fight for this tech­nology instead of the battery and I am proud that BWT Fumatech with its world­wide best performing membranes is able to contribute to the break-​through of this sustain­able energy converter and thus help to decar­bonize our planet"
Andreas Weis­senbacher, CEO, BWT

Membranes for Fuel Cells

The sustain­able energy converter of the 21st century

For more than 20 years, BWT is investing into the devel­op­ment and produc­tion of mate­rials and compo­nents for the produc­tion of clean water, for the produc­tion of hydrogen by elec­trol­ysis of water, for the conver­sion of energy in fuel cells and finally for the conver­sion of carbon­dioxide and hydrogen into green fuels. BWT is a global supplier of membranes for the entire cycle from water to hydrogen and from hydrogen to elec­tricity and to water again.

BWT hydrogen fuel cell concept car
"We hope that we can build bridges all over the world. We take care alto­gether that every­body, sooner or later, will have safe, healthy drinking water on our globe.”
Andreas Weis­senbacher, CEO, BWT

We share every sip

BWT has always been committed to helping people in need and supporting projects that make a demon­strable contri­bu­tion to the sustain­able devel­op­ment of regions affected by poverty. As part of the b.water­MIS­SION project, a total of 10,000 wells are being built in The Gambia, Tanzania and surrounding areas with the help of BWT to give local people access to clean drinking water.