Water Environmental Treatment Ltd (W.E.T), a specialist Legionella and water hygiene service company, are developing an innovative and intelligent water storage solution in collaboration with its tank manufacturing business PFG, to prevent the growth of harmful pathogens commonly present in building water systems. The project mission is to protect the health of UK, European and the World's citizens from contaminated water, whilst improving the cost efficiency of managing water compliance for UK businesses and the public sector. In Europe, around 330,000 cases of water related disease are reported per year to the WHO and over 300 cases of the deadly Legionnaires' disease occur in the UK alone. The costs of H&S compliance and maintaining healthy water systems in the UK is increasing as legislation becomes more onerous. Current methods of prevention are either labour intensive using basic technology or at the other end of the scale using high energy capital equipment or chemicals. As a result, there is an ever increasing environmental impact as 1000s of water hygiene engineers travel the UK, water is wasted through cleaning regimes and chemicals are produced. An R&D project delivered by W.E.T is to bring together current best practices, existing new research and leading edge emerging technologies as a means to meet all these challenges under one cost effective product. Specifically, W.E.T will use its technical capability, manufacturing facilities and scientific knowledge to research the use and impact of antimicrobial coatings, anti-stagnation geometry, material thermal performance and electromagnetic shockwaves at a molecular level to suppress target pathogens. The project will evaluate the proposed technologies and provide scientific evidence of their effectiveness that will subsequently lead to the development of appropriate technologies, launched into an industry where product design hasn't changed for several decades.