Cool Water

The Gazette: Manuel Desrochers didn’t set out to design an award-winning piece of utilitarian sculpture.
“I’m not even a designer,” is the first thing Desrochers, the 34-year-old Montreal creator of the Ovopur water-filtration unit, says about himself.
“But I’ve always been preoccupied by water and how underappreciated it is in our society. We open the tap and let it pour, or we buy it in plastic bottles and then throw them away.
“In our society, water is taken for granted or hidden away.”
It’s that sentiment that prompted him to come up with an eco-friendly water-filtration system for the home or office that is at once functional, environmentally friendly and aesthetically pleasing. His Ovopur, which retails for about $690, is an egg-shaped water-filtration system of handmade porcelain and mouthblown glass that filters tap water through a reusable glass filter and keeps it cool without electricity.
The water trickles down from an upper reservoir, through a glass filter containing four layers of filtering materials, and into an 11-litre egg-shaped porcelain reservoir whose thermal properties keep the water cool.
Cool water [The Gazette]