A lot of people drink water in small bottles, you know the ones they come from the supermarket and dairies in 500 ml, 750ml or 1 litre bottles and you are supposed to carry them around and sip on them through the day.
If you calculate the cost per each litre you buy in this way it is hugely more expensive than just having your own bench top or under bench filter at home; or water coolers that you fill up from a filter.
Added to this expense there is the cost to the environment, every single one of those plastic bottle that you buy uses something like 25% of its size in oil to get to you once you take into account the actual plastic used in the bottle plus the various methods of transportation it takes to get to you.
Water Coolers: Better Water
But is it better water you ask? Well this is a common conception, I mean it must be better if it costs so much more right? Actually wrong, a quality home filter can provide you with exactly the same quality of water and in some cases far better quality of water than anything you can buy in a bottle.
So it really is going to do your wallet a favour and the planet a favour to ditch the bottled water and just use your own refillable sports bottle with your own water cooler / filter system.
There is one more concern people have about the filtered water not having the minerals that some bottled water has – in my opinion the amount of minerals in any bottled water is tiny in importance compared to what you eat in your food so focus on that rather than the tiny amounts of minerals in the bottled water you drink.
If you are really worried about this you can get ‘mineralised’ water this is where the minerals are added to filtered water for you. Any good water filter supply company should be able to discuss this with you and make sure that you get a filter that will provide you with what you need.
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