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A modern water-saving shower, without compromise In a modern world where water is generally taken for granted, smart solutions to help reduce water usage are in high demand. One such solution is a circular shower that saves up to 90 per cent water without compromising on comfort. It sounds almost too good to be true, yet this is precisely what Orbital brings to the table. By Emma Rodin |
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Nudging the traditional shower off its pedestal, Orbital is shaking things up in the bathroom with a new design, ground-breaking technology and a splash of innovation. The Orbital Shower’s digital closed-loop system is the only one of its kind and was developed to tackle humanity’s over-usage of water, while helping people to make a positive 58 |
Issue 144
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July 2022
change on a personal level. “We’ve taken water for granted for too long and it is time to use it smarter,” says marketing director Pål Katsler. Described by Forbes Magazine as ‘the Tesla of showers’, the Orbital Shower is built from the simple idea of using less water – but from far-from-simple tech-
nology. “In layman’s terms, the shower is using water from the past, for the needs of today, to reshape the future. And the best part? Users can still shower however long they want to,” explains Katsler. From Mars to Earth It all started some years ago when Orbital’s founder Mehrdad Mahdjoubi studied industrial design at the university of Lund in southern Sweden. Back then, he was working on a project with NASA to explore the possibilities of water usage and sustaining life on Mars. It led him to consider water usage on Earth, and to ques-
