UV-C water sterilisation system: how does it work!

July 4th 2025

Water sterilisation with UV-C lamp is getting more and more popular, here’s why.

UV or Ultra Violets exists in 3 types: UV-A, UV-B et UV-C. The first two are responsible for sunburns and sometimes cancers.
UV-C however are pretty much entirely filtered by our athmosphere. It’s a good thing too because they can destroy living tissue’s DNA at the cellular level.

It is now possible to reproduce those UV-C on smaller scale with UV-C lamp, and it’s very useful to kill bacteria such as E.Coli. Hospitals have been using this technology more and more, to sterilise operating rooms and patients’ room since UV-C light kills nearly instantaneously any bacteria or viruses who are exposed, rendering them dead or inert at 99.99 % rate. This consitute a major game changer in terms of time compared to manual clean up which implies a full team, lots of chlorine and time.

This sterilisation process is now available, safe to use, for drinking fountains, bottle fillers, water dispensers, water coolers and even ice machines.

When it’s important to sterilise drinking water 

It’s a difficult feat to avoid all bacterial and viral contamination, being microscopique life forms, they are often moved around through air via dusts and microparticles. It’s how they’ll end up in open bodies of water and eventually, in our drinking water sources. Since most water filter can’t stop them, as soon as they land in water, they multiply.

So for work places dealing with already fragile clientele such as medical clinics, dental clinics, hospitals, long term care facilities and eldery care centers, it is mandatory to thoroughly control bacterial and viral propagation.

Schools and campuses where thousands of ppl transit through, students, teachers and visitors, changing classrooms several times a day; you can easily imaging the size of a contamination should we give bacteria and viruses and point of entry. That’s why more and more educational establishment are choosing contactless drinking fountains and bottle filler with filtered water. UV-C sterilisation is just one more tool in their arsonal to keep contamination under countrol.

It’s perfect for businesses such as food transformation where bacterial control is paramount and any business really who wish to avoid a contamination affecting a majority of its working staff and protect their production capacity, would benefit from a UV-C drinking water sterilisation system.

If water is filtered, do we really need sterilisation?

Currently, there are a lot of efficient water filters available, capable of filtering solids that are well known for causing health problems such as lead, chemical agents, PFAS (Forever Chemicals) and microplastics. But even when the water looks clean after a good water filtration process, if there were bacteria or viral cells in it to begin with, they will still be there after.

UV-C water sterilisation system does not replace a good water filter, in fact: they are made to work as a team!

For the UV-C light treatment to do a proper job, it’s important that the water be cleaned of any microparticles, as they could generate shadows prventing light from destroying bacteria and viruses efficiently.

An advanced filter teamed up with a UV-C sterilisation system ensures exceptional quality drinking water and will keep your staff, your patients, students and visitors, well hydrated and protected!

An inexpensive and simple solution

A UV-C light water sterilisation system is quite easy to add to an existing drinking fountain or bottle filler. It’s not expensive and easy to set up. Our Innest system is good for 5 years and requires no yearly maintenance, no change of lights.

More and more water coolers and ice machines now comes with UV-C treatment options such as offered by BLUPURA, or are already included like on all the LULIA’s products, who offers and advanced 5 stages RO (reverse Osmosis) water filtration and the UV-C lamp sterilisation on top for really exceptionnal drinking water.

Drinking water more than just clean!

You now have at your disposition several solutions that allows you to offer exceptionnally clean fresh drinking water with advanced water filters which will be free of solid contaminents such as dirt, sediments and more and now also 99.99% free of bacteria and viruses thanks to UV-C water sterilisation treatment!

By offering the best and safest drinking water there is for a really healthy hydration at work, you ensure optimal performances from your staff or students and you keep everyone safe.

BONUS:

A drinking fountain or a bottle filler offering fresh clean drinking water is the best incentive to encourage all users to bring their own canteen for a refill instead of reaching for yet another disposable water bottle;
WHICH IS EXCELLENT NEWS FOR THE ENVIRONMENT!

WOULD YOU LIKE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT UV-C STERILISATION SYSTEMS?

Contact us to learn more about this inexpensive and easy solution for water sterilisation.
By phone 1 866 660 2858, or send us an E-mail about it, we’ll contact you at your convenience [email protected]