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Paul Wise
Bottleless water coolers are becoming more and more popular as people become more and more concerned with the environmental impact of bottled water delivery. According to non-profit environmental research and advocacy organizations, the production, packaging, and transportation of just a liter of bottled water demands anywhere from one thousand one hundred to two thousand times more energy on average when compared to tap water. This is of great concern when you consider that bottled water has now become a veritable staple of the American and European diet, with sales in Asia and the rest of the world growing at breakneck paces. For instance, in 2007 alone well over two hundred billion liters of bottled water were sold around the world, with the United States making up for thirty-three billion of those liters - that's roughly an annual average of a hundred and ten liters, or nearly thirty gallons, per American! No wonder bottles water coolers are fast catching on as an environmentally responsible alternative to the problem of clean drinking water. Bottled water is so popular now that it outsells even milk and bear in the United States, but much of this water is nothing more than repackaged tap water straight out of the local municipal supply! Unlike tap water, bottled water is very expensive for the consumer and grossly negative for the environment. Moreover, bottled water is not necessarily tested, or tested as rigorously, as tap water must be. And though a lot of bottled water is just tap water, who knows what contaminants may have been worked in on account of the repackaging? Bottleless water coolers are the solution. They are a point-of-use system that uses your existing water supply in combination with a machine that looks just like an ordinary office water cooler. This machine, however, is full of filtration blocks and other purification mechanisms to ensure water that is clean and fresh right before consumption. This way, there is practically no chance of contamination - no dirty dusty bottles to change and no dirty tanks to clean. There is almost no exposure to the outside; certainly no chance of fingers touching anything but the dispensing nozzle, and of course a little care on the part of end-users can take care of that concern. Installation is simple, and comparable to that occasioned by cable television service. Initial costs are about the same as with traditional methods, but over the long haul savings of all kinds add up substantially.
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