What's bad with most water

Take the “Changing Your Bottled Water” Quiz

Would you change from bottled water if:

• Water was delivered precisely as you needed it so you didn’t have to maintain a large stack of bottles in your break room?
• Your bottled water company changed your bottles so you and your employees didn’t have to lift the 40 pound bottles?
• All your empty bottles were removed immediately, so you didn’t have a huge stack of empties clogging up your break room?
• Your cooler was sanitized multiple times a day so there wouldn’t be any scum build up in the cooler?
• The bottle company sanitized the outside of every bottle before putting it on the cooler to make sure no contaminants from the bottle got into your cooler?
• You weren’t charged by the bottle so you could freely drink all the water you wanted at one fixed cost?
• The bottle company had someone on site to clean up the water you spilled when changing the bottles?
• You didn’t have to pay a deposit on every bottle you received?
• You were provided fresh purified water that wasn’t sitting in a bottle for weeks or even months?
• You had water quality monitors so you could be sure that every drop you drank was actually purified?
• Your water could be delivered without delivery people interrupting your day and wandering through your office?

Of course you would – who wouldn’t?

Bottled water has many problems that people have learned to overlook:

• Every time your cooler runs out of water, someone has to lift that heavy 40-pound bottle to replace it
• The risk of injury for employees (as well as a possible worker’s compensation claim for your company) when lifting the heavy bottles
• Spilling as the awkward bottles are put in place
• Bottle delivery person tracking through your business, disrupting work
• Storage of bottles – taking up valuable storage, not to mention the unsightly stacks of bottles
• Running out of water
• Added work of counting bottles and reconciling invoices
• Uncontrolled rising costs and bottle deposits
• Non-biodegradable plastic water bottles disposed in landfills 
• Contamination of water

What Uninvited Guests are Making Themselves at Home in Your Bottled Drinking Water?

The water in bottles may have been pure when it left the bottling plant, but once opened in your business it becomes an open system, exposed to a variety of airborne contaminants.  Everything that comes into contact with the bottle ends up in your drinking water.  Once introduced, these organisms find a welcome home in a pool of untreated water.  Everyone knows that an un-chlorinated swimming pool will turn green – the same thing can happen in a bottled water cooler.