Water in the office: what are the options
If you want to enjoy nice fresh water at the office, possibly with a bubble, there are various options. We list them for you.
What are the options?
If you want to enjoy nice chilled water at the office, you have four options:
- Put water from the tap in the refrigerator
- Buy spring water and put it in the refrigerator
- Get water tanks with a dispenser
- Connect a water cooler to the water supply
Only with spring water and a water cooler you also have the option of drinking sparkling water. Below you can read which option is the most sustainable and cheap.
What is more sustainable?
Drawing water from the tap or from a water cooler yourself is a lot more sustainable than buying water tanks or bottled spring water. There is much less transport, production and waste involved. A lot of air is transported, especially in the case of water tanks and bottles with a deposit!
If you go for a water cooler, then only the machine has to be produced once, but it will last for a very long time: up to ten years. This also applies to the dispenser at the water tanks.
Tap water from the tap is the most sustainable, but even then you need a refrigerator to get it really cool and unfortunately there is no sparkling water from the tap.
Spring water or mineral water?
What’s the deal? In short: mineral water always comes from a recognized mineral source. Well water is little more than water from any source and that can be your water pipe too. Did you know that you shower in Utrecht with Bar Le Duc?
Is bottled water inferior to the quality of spring water? Certainly not: with all the options for filtration, cooling, carbonization and mineralization, it is no longer necessary to buy spring water or mineral water from the factory.
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There is a product that we can get for free and unlimited at home, but still want to buy for two thousand times the price in the supermarket: water in a bottle.
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What’s cheaper?
Putting tap water in the fridge is by far the most beneficial. For the other options, it all depends on how much water you drink.
You can often purchase the dispenser for free with the water tanks. After that you only pay a lot per water tank. With average consumption, this can add up considerably. The same goes for bottled spring water.
If you want to tap chilled and sparkling water from a water cooler, you need a machine, which is quite expensive. That is why most parties also offer this with a rental price per week or per month. In addition, you occasionally have to purchase new carbon dioxide cylinders. Converted per litre, the price is very manageable and decreases with more use.
Corporate Responsibility
What are the options if you would like to link a good cause to your water?
Most suppliers of water coolers do not have a solution for this. You are then dependent on providers of spring water such as Earthwater and Marie Stella Maris. They donate a small percentage of the profit.
Made Blue offers water coolers and glassware at cost price and links this to a very transparent donation. Each water cooler provides no less than 1 million litres of clean drinking water!
Clean drinking water
Clean drinking water for everyone, that is our mission. That is why every water cooler in the office provides at least 1,000,000 liters of clean drinking water.
In this way, each water cooler ensures that 137 people have access to enough drinking water for a year to drink, cook and wash safely.
That is a lot of impact and you should talk about it. That is why we also supply a communication package with every water cooler and you can call yourself an ambassador of Made Blue. Companies such as Samsung, L’Oreal and Heijmans have already preceded you.
What type of water dispenser?
For a water cooler you only need a power socket and a water connection. You can place a water cooler on a worktop (table model) or below it (under counter) with a tap tower connected to it.
There are water coolers with more or less capacity and tap towers in every style. If you tap many carafes in succession, you may want more capacity. If you only tap glasses, an entry-level model will suffice.
Nowadays there are also beautiful solutions from Quooker and Grohe for the kitchen, sometimes in combination with boiling water. These are unfortunately only for sale.
The best water for you
At Made Blue we call our water solutions the best water for the world.
They can also be the best water for you and your colleagues. We always have a suitable solution and the most beautiful glassware! Is that the best water for you?
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