BY CHRIS ALEX
New Zealand-based company KlipTank is here at the 9th Pacific Water and Waste Ministers Forum and the 16th Pacific Water and Wastewater Association (PWWA) Conference, currently taking place in Honiara.
The company is showcasing its game-changing, flat-pack modular water tanks, designed specifically for the unique geographic and environmental challenges faced by island nations across the Pacific.
Speaking to Island Sun, Duheine Myburgh, KlipTank’s water market manager, emphasised the company’s mission to deliver practical and sustainable water storage solutions to remote communities.
“We’re a small company based in New Zealand, the company is called KlipTank and we manufacture flat-pack modular water tanks.
“Our tanks vary in size from 20,000 liters up to 6 million liters as a single tank storage. We can provide supervision, training and installation resources should it be required but we like to empower the community,” Myburgh said.
Myburgh encouraged local authorities, like Solomon Water, to consider involving communities directly in tank installations.
“We suggest empowering the local community. Let them install the tanks themselves. We can provide training, manuals, YouTube videos, and online supervision. If really required, we can send supervisors to assist or train installers,” Myburgh said.
What makes KlipTank’s products particularly suited to Pacific Island conditions is their robust, corrosion-resistant design and logistical flexibility.
“Getting water storage into remote areas is very difficult,” Myburgh explained.
“Steel rusts, concrete cracks and is costly. Our tanks are designed to handle New Zealand’s high earthquake standards, so they’ll do very well in the Solomon Islands too.”
KlipTank tanks are constructed using anti-corrosive aluminum and HTPE (high tensile polyethylene) materials, with options for both hard and soft PVC roofing. Most notably, the tanks require no concrete foundations, instead sitting securely on compacted coral bases ideal for island terrains.
“The flat-pack design is a major benefit,” Myburgh added. “You can load multiple tanks into a single 40-foot container between 20,000 and 50,000 liters each. The amount of storage volume you can get per container is immense.”
One of KlipTank’s key reference projects is in the Marshall Islands, where they have delivered over 140 tanks, each ranging from 34,000 to 55,000 liters.
“All of these tanks were shipped flat-pack and assembled locally. It’s a testament to how scalable and effective our solution can be for Pacific communities,” said Myburgh.
Manufactured in Tauranga, New Zealand, KlipTank’s systems are engineered not only for efficiency and durability but for empowerment providing communities with the tools and training to manage their own water needs sustainably.
As the Solomon Islands and other Pacific nations look to strengthen water resilience amid climate and infrastructure challenges, KlipTank’s approach may offer exactly the kind of locally driven, smart solution that’s needed.
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