In an attempt to raise awareness of the global water crisis, Patagonia will use Source Hydropanels to give customers and employees of its Honolulu store premium and sustainably produced drinking water. Using sunlight and air as the only inputs, the Source technology pulls pure, clean and infinitely renewable water vapor from the sky to produce climate-resilient, mineral-balanced drinking water. The self-contained system works entirely off-grid and delivers water directly to taps and faucets using no electricity, pipes or plastic. According to Source, Patagonia will be the first retailer in the world to offer drinking water from the sky.
Source Hydropanels are used in homes, hotels, hospitals, schools, remote worksites and water-stressed communities across the world, without pumping groundwater from the earth. The company estimates that one panel can save 54,000 plastic bottles over its lifetime; two can meet the needs of four to six people and remove a car’s worth of CO2 from the environment. The Public Benefit Corporation is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, and operates in 48 countries and on six continents.
