Water Supplier of 127 Municipalities Gives Award to WISY AG.
OVAG- Environment-Award appreciates rainwater-harvesting as sustainable and future-orientated

The OVAG (Oberhessische Versorgungsbetriebe AG, Germany), water supplier for the city of Frankfurt and more than 126 municipalities and villages, granted its environmental award on July 8, 2009 to WISY AG. This award is prestigious for WISY AG, a rainwater harvesting company since 1989, because water supply companies often see rainwater harvesting as competution. On contrary to many of their colleagues the chief executives of the OVAG, Rainer Schwarz and Rolf Gnadl, view rainwater-harvesting neither as a competition nor as an endangerment for the potable water supply. They are convinced that the future-orientated developments of the WISY AG are to be commended as an important contribution for a sustainable and environmental-friendly water management strategy.

The OVAG selection committee, who chose WISY AG from a set of applicants, views the work of Norbert Winkler, WISY AG President, as "an epoch-making achievement; providing innovative, maintenance-free, and user-friendly rainwater-harvesting products for domestic use." It was also noted during the award presentation that "based on a unique, patented filter-system, which the company founder Norbert Winkler brought to the serial production", new jobs were created at WISY AG and their partners' and customers' businesses.

Above all, the ecological and innovative aspects of the company's activities were appreciated. WISY AG not only set technical standards in rainwater harvesting with its high-quality products, but also developed long-life systems for world-wide, environmental-friendly water supplies. In this sense the OVAG Environment Award should be acknowledgment enough for WISY AG, but it also stimulants the company to find further practical and innovative solutions for future water problems.