Refillable drinking water, on every corner of Victoria Falls.
Eco-friendly, sustainable drinking water, cold at 27 stations across town.
The problem is the bottle, not the water.
Every visitor drinks two to three litres a day. Until recently, almost all of it arrived in single-use plastic.
Every refill replaces one single-use plastic bottle.
single-use bottles kept out of the Zambezi through Ecodrop stations.
Counted at the stations since mid-2023, updated every hour. How we count
One bottle. Any station.
Get a bottle or an Eco Tag
At the airport, our shop at Elephant’s Walk, or in the app. Each carries a QR code registered to you.
Hold it to the reader
The station checks your balance and unlocks.
Cold water pours
Purified on site. It keeps pouring until your bottle has 500 ml in it, or until you take it away. That counts as one refill.
27 stations across town.
Open 24 hours, all but our own shop. Hosted by the lodges, cafes and operators you are already visiting.
Victoria Falls Airport
Open 24 hours
Elephant's Walk
Open 24 hours
The Victoria Falls Hotel
Open 24 hours
The Lookout Cafe
Open 24 hours
Safari Lodge
Open 24 hours
Shearwater
Open 24 hours
Hosted by the people who run this town.
Gold, Responsible Tourism, World Travel Market Africa, Cape Town. Host a station
Refills, by the numbers.
Every pour at every station adds one to the count. This is the running tally, and the pace it moves at.
Bottles kept out of the Zambezi
507,850
- 253,925 L
- cold water poured
- 5,028 kg
- plastic never made
- 42 t
- CO₂e not emitted
The pace
…
refills an hour, day and night, averaged since July 2023.
- One every few minutes, across 27 stations.
- Hundreds a day, each one 500 ml of cold, purified water.
- Counted at the stations, updated every hour.