The Oberoi Hotel Lombok

The Oberoi Hotel Lombok is located on a smaller island nearby Bali in southern Indonesia. This Oberoi Hotel is considered as one of the most luxurious and best hotels in the world. Guests from Europe or the US, think they have reached paradise, when coming there. In such places it is even more important to have the highest standards if it comes to the quality of water.
Unfortunately, the water supplied to the Hotel complex is not of the best quality, using bore well water is no option either, so the engineers had to constantly fight corrosion and microbiological problems in the water storage tank, and as well the pipe network feeding the different bungalows and buildings at the resort. Having such an unstable situation with the water, management recommended their guests not to use tap water as drinking water, not even using  for brushing teeth.
Merus Rings have been installed at several different locations and pipes in order to get control over the entire water system. Regular monitoring of the water was even taking place even before Merus Rings were installed. After the installation of Merus Rings water was controlled even more frequently and engineers from Merus regularly took samples to measure the iron content and the micro organism in the water.

Both values started to diminish a short time after the installation. The colour and the turbidity in the water got back to normal. The micro-organism in the water  went down and stabilized below the required values of 100 cfu. Seeing this results, adding of water treatment chemicals was stopped. The water quality continued to be monitored and checked closely, because  the management like to see how stable the results of Merus were, and specifically if the bacteria remained constant below the required limits.  Now, more then a year after the installation, the values are still stable. The management is now considering, allowing their guests to use tap water again for brushing teeth.  Using tap water instead of expensive bottled water which have to be brought from far away as well stopping the chemical additives to the water, is not only reducing costs, but is extremely benefitial to the environment as well.