Around The Water Cooler.

Solid Waste and Recycling –Canada’s Magazine on Collection, Hauling, Processing, and Disposal– reports a recent step Trent University in Ontario has taken towards a greener future.  Responding to student leaders’ calls for a more sustainable drinking water system on campus, the school’s administration has introduced a new bottled water policy.  Effective as of Fall 2011, Trent University will no longer sell individual bottles of water in vending machines, the cafeteria, or the bookstore.  The strategy will be implemented in order to reduce the hazardous corollaries of the bottled water industry.  The project received an 80% backing, according to a TSCA survey, showing that the major sentiment on campus is against the bottled water industry.  In order to sate thirsty students and faculty, the college’s Physical Resource Department will be installing water fountains around campus.

Blue Reserve sees itself as the sustainable, refreshing alternative to bottled water.  With our filtered water systems, we strive to provide the highest quality water with the lowest environmental ramifications. Blue Reserve has provided several universities and colleges with our filtered water cooler service to address the problems of bottled water delivery. Most recently, Blue Reserve installed over 60 filtered water coolers, replacing all of the bottled water coolers at the University of New England. Students get access to clean bottleless drinking water, served hot or cold out of our filtered water coolers. Say goodbye to bottled water delivery service for your office and try a filtered water cooler service today!

EnvironmentalLeader reports that Macy’s, one of the United States’ most popular department stores, has officially curbed its dependence on disposable plastic bottled water with the introduction of Bottleless Water Coolers to its stores.  The company decided that rather than provide employees with the unsustainable, and frankly unfeasible, bottles of water, they would take a step towards a more environmentally-focused agenda.  Along with the installation of Bottleless Water Coolers (also known as filtered water cooler or point of use water coolers), the company has switched to 100% recycled paper, converted to LED lights, and furnished its buildings with solar panels.  This effort has the dual effect for the company, as it not only presents them as a ‘Greener’ and more environmentally-conscious organization, but also in that it helps them save a significant amount of money every year. Bottleless or filtered water coolers are known to be more economical and eco-friendly than 5-gallon bottled water cooler delivery for offices and homes.

Blue Reserve Bottleless Water Coolers is pushing for more companies to follow Macy’s step in disavowing the unsustainable conventions of the past.  The push for environmentally-friendly alternatives like a filtered water cooler is truly a win-win situation! Filtered water coolers for offices are the future for office water, replacing more wasteful systems like bottled water cooler delivery service.

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A new study published in Environmental Health Perspective, conducted by researches at University of Missouri-Columbia, University of California-Davis, and Washington State University, concludes that daily human exposure to bisphenol-A (BPA) is markedly higher than originally estimated.  The scientists measured BPA levels in adult female rhesus monkeys and mice, and contrasted this data with a previous study on BPA in human women.  The comparison showed that not only are we taking in higher amounts of the chemical than before, but also that it is entering our bodies from a multitude of sources.  As Reno News and Review illustrates, “known sources of BPA include hard plastic baby and water bottles (particularly those labeled with the recycling number 7), the linings of canned food and drinks, medical equipment, some dental sealants and, more recently discovered, thermal (carbonless) paper receipts. The study also names children’s books and cigarette filters as other newly discovered sources of BPA.”  BPA, an endocrine disruptor, is most often associated with is hazardous effects on the human body, including developmental and reproductive disorders, heart disease, and diabetes.

Blue Reserve Bottleless Water Coolers reduce human exposure to BPA by purifying the water in a closed system and held in a stainless steel basin. There is zero risk of BPA leaching or contamination from air borne pathogens with Blue Reserve Bottleless Water Coolers. Instead of office water delivery service, try a filtered water cooler by Blue Reserve water for premium bottle free drinking water.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Maine is proud to announce a new partnership with Blue Reserve Water, Maine’s leading provider of purified water coolers for the workplace. Located in Portland and recently awarded the 2011 Portland Maine’s PROPEL Enteverge Award for its innovative business, Blue Reserve offers the ideal drinking water solution for any office.

Whether your workplace or office currently uses bottled water bubblers, pays for bottled water delivery service, or uses filtered water coolers, upgrading to a Blue Reserve bottle-less water cooler system will reduce your costs and provide a superior product. At the same time, you will be supporting the Southern Maine community, as Blue Reserve will donate to Big Brothers Big Sisters for each new client that signs up.

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Blue Reserve Water of Portland Maine and Seabrook New Hampshire provides quality drinking water to offices in the form of a filtered water cooler service. Our filtered water coolers replace the need to pay for bottled water delivery for an office and is a more cost effective and environmentally friendly solution to office drinking water. Learn more about our filtered water cooler service today!

Veronica Pacheco of The Anchor, Rhode Island College’s Newspaper, reports on the small adjustments each of us can make to affect big changes in the environment. She says that it’s not imperative that people attach solar panels to their roofs or go out and buy hybrid cars. No, in fact, she argues that we should focus our purchasing power on items that are reusable, which in most cases will save us money. “The average American spends $800 on bottled water every year. That’s enough money for a weekend getaway!” Generally people counter this argument by raising health concerns over tap or even filtered water, but Pacheco heads them off. She writes that after testing various bottled waters against the available tap water, she found bottled water to contain more heavy metals and almost twice the chlorine. By weaning ourselves off the crutch of bottled water or bottled water coolers, we will be able to save money, be healthier, and reduce the significant emissions that originate in the creation of these bottles. Perhaps it is, after all, easy being green. Filtered water is the best of both worlds.

Blue Reserve works to provide you the highest quality water at the lowest impact to the environment. Our purification system utilizes a nine-step process to ensure that the water you drink is as pure, hydrating, and refreshing as possible. Try out bottle-less water coolers today and experience the benefits of filtered water coolers for your office or home. Our office filtered water coolers are most cost-effective and eco-friendly than bottled office water delivery.

Jennifer Wilkins, of Cornell University, writes for the Albany’s Times Union on a new report published in the October issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.  The study, which utilized data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2005-2006, argues that children in the U.S. aren’t getting the recommended amounts of water.  Whereas this may send some parents frantically racing to the grocery store in search of bottled water for their children’s lunches, Wilkins emphasizes that we must reevaluate the methods with which we intake water.  Water is available in through many sources, such as fruits and vegetables.  Additionally, potable water can be found readily, and cheaply, from public sources rather than bottling companies.  For those who prefer the a crisper taste, Bottleless Filtration Systems are similarly cost effective. Bottled water companies shift the liquid from a public trust to a commodity. “When [water] is treated as a commodity, democracy, health and the environment suffer,” says Wilkins.  And as Think Outside the Bottle states, “Producing bottles for the U.S. bottled water market required the equivalent of more than 17 million barrels of oil last year — enough fuel for more than 1 million U.S. cars for a year — and generated more than 2.5 million tons of carbon dioxide. Each year more than 4 billion pounds of PET plastic bottles end up in landfills or as roadside litter.”  Thus, we need not hysterically buy up PET water bottles, when we could just as easily utilize Bottleless Water Cooler technology to provide a cheaper, healthier, more refreshing, and tastier alternative.

Blue Reserve strongly advocates the paradigm shift from disposable PET plastic bottles to Bottleless Water Coolers, in an effort to ensure a healthier and more sustainable future. Filtered water or bottled? You choose.

A recent study found Bisphenol A to be present in 91% of the people it tested. The study tested 5600 Canadians between the ages of 6 and 79, and included both blood and urine testing. Individuals can be exposed to BPA in a variety of ways, most frequently through food and beverage containers. The chemical mimics the effects of estrogen on the body, and can be harmful to the reproductive system.

An easy way to limit BPA exposure is to switch from a 5-gallon bottled water cooler to a point of use, filtered, or bottleless water coolers. In bottled water coolers, BPA is found in the plastic bottle, and can leech into the water being stored within. Filtered, or bottleless water coolers filter and purify tap water from existing cold water lines before storing the water in a steel basin. The filtered water never comes into contact with polycarbonate plastic, and is never exposed to BPA. Bottleless water coolers further address inefficiencies of bottled water coolers by eliminating costs of delivery and storage, allowing homes and business to save between 20-70% on water costs. To learn more about bottleless water coolers or the filtration system used to filter the water, click GO BOTTLELESS!

Corporate Accountability International is an organization that hopes to combat corporate abuse through appealing to consumer consciousness.  If consumers, who give certain corporate authorities their power in the act of buying certain products, can curb their reliance on goods that are environmentally or culturally deleterious, then they have the ability to affect change at the highest levels.  On their website, CAI supports many advocacy groups, including Think Outside The Bottle.  In an articulate, terse, and poignant manner, the website has laid out the Top Ten Reasons to Think Outside the Bottle.  Here are some of the most important ones:

• TO SAVE MONEY. Bottled water costs hundreds or thousands of times more than tap water, for a product which is essentially the same as the water coming from the tap.

• TO PROTECT OUR ENVIRONMENT. The extraction of bottled water takes a significant toll on the environment. And, nearly 8 out of 10 plastic bottles are burnt or tossed into landfills, polluting the air, overflowing landfills and contributing to water pollution.

• TO PRESERVE LOCAL CONTROL OF WATER RESOURCES. Water bottlers like Nestlé have a track record of running roughshod over communities’ concerns and damaging the environment when they extract water and build bottling plants to take local spring and groundwater.

• TO REDUCE YOUR CARBON FOOTPRINTS. Plastics used to make water bottles create pollution from beginning to end of the product cycle. Fossil fuel used annually to create plastic bottles contributes to global warmingFossil fuel used to distribute plastic bottles around the world via trucks, planes and boats contributes to global warming. Public water systems ensure more energy-efficient access to water.

• TO SUPPORT THE HUMAN RIGHT TO WATER. One in six people on earth don’t have access to enough water. In the face of this crisis, corporations are turning water into a profit driven commodity. Show your support for the human right to water by challenging the bottled water industry’s corporate control of our water.

Blue Reserve fully supports the mission of curbing frivolous wastefulness.  With our Bottleless Water Coolers, you get better tasting, cleaner, and purer water at the least cost to the consumer and environment. Filtered Water Coolers help reduce our dependency on bottled water. Go bottleless and enjoy pure drinking water without the bottle. Blue Reserve Water can help.

A Congressman from Florida has proposed a new bill that would effectively tax water extraction by bottled water companies in the state. Franklin Sands has proposed the bill in order to “collect a modest fee from bottled water companies that derive extravagant profits for the privilege of pumping millions of gallons of water daily from Florida’s springs and other water bodies.”

This makes sense to us a Blue Reserve, as we have always felt that the ability for bottled water companies to exploit our water resources free of charge, then resell that product for thousands of times more than their costs is wrong. If they are going to extract a public good, than they should also be paying a fee to public to do that. This new bill would impose a 5 cent per gallon tax on water extraction within the state, a large increase over the one time $212 permit that companies pay now to pump unlimited water.

In increasing numbers, workplaces are switching to bottleless (point of use) water coolers to eliminate the inefficiencies associated with bottled water. Water Technology Magazine published the following overview on bottle-less water coolers.

“There are three reasons that end users might make the switch from 5-gallon bottled water coolers to filtered coolers:

Cost savings:
By eliminating the cost of renting or purchasing a bottled water cooler and the cost of having the bottles delivered, clients can cut monthly costs by 20 to 75 percent. This does not take into account the cost of storage space for the full and empty bottles or the indirect labor costs to stock, deliver and change bottles.

Convenience:
Filtered coolers can eliminate the hassles of once or twice-monthly bottled water deliveries, storage space required for stockpiling bottles, the possibility of running out of water, and security issues with delivery people coming through an office 12 to 52 times per year. There is also the possibility of injury and workers’ compensation claims as a result of lifting 42-pound bottles.

Improved water quality:
Without proper monthly cleaning and sanitizing, the water storage reservoirs of bottled water coolers are prime breeding grounds for bacteria, algae and biofilm growth. While basic filtered coolers are not immune to that same biofilm growth, the nature of their sealed system slows the growth of microbiologicals to levels below that of “open tank” bottled water coolers.”

Learn more today about how your office can improve its drinking water with a Blue Reserve filtered water cooler. Move beyond bottles with a bottle-less water cooler.