WATER WORKS
Anthony Bosco is the Managing Director of Espresso Works.
The wild west Anthony Bosco of Espresso Works in Western Australia discusses the importance of water filtration in Australia’s hardest water state.
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he eastern states may be more famous for their booming coffee cultures, but that same quality can be found across Australia. At Espresso Works, we provide maintenance and sales of the finest coffee machines and associated products to coffee shops across Western Australia. We work with some of the biggest brands in coffee, including XLVI, Wega, Rocket, SAB, Slayer, La Marzocco, ECM, Mazzer and Fiorenzato
BRITA’s Finest range is designed to soften total or permanent water hardness.
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just to name a few. Over in the west we have our own unique challenges to the rest of Australia, water quality being one of them. But relationships with partners like BRITA help us overcome them. Tap water in Western Australia comes from a variety of different sources, including desalination plants and above ground dams. Simple groundwater also contains an abundance of minerals – including sodium, potassium, calcium, and magnesium, as well as organic matter – which requires our
drinking water to be treated with chlorine and fluoride, which acts as a disinfectant. This water often goes on a longer journey from the reservoir to the tap than in smaller states, providing more opportunity to pick up the minerals along the way. The mineral content in Western Australian water is relatively high for these reasons, resulting in a level of “hardness” which can cause a build-up of limescale within a coffee machine over time. These minerals can also change the flavour of the
