Bottleless vs. Bottled Water for Offices
Five-gallon jug delivery or a machine on your water line? Here’s how they actually compare — cost, cleanliness, lifting, and what your team ends up drinking.
Bottleless vs. bottled, side by side
| 5-gallon bottled delivery | Bottleless (point-of-use) | |
|---|---|---|
| Where the water comes from | Filled at a bottling plant, then trucked, warehoused and delivered | Your building’s existing water line, filtered right at the machine |
| Filtration | Filtered once, at the plant | Multi-stage filtration, including reverse osmosis, every time you pour |
| What you pay for | Jugs, cooler rental, bottle deposits and delivery charges — it changes month to month | One flat monthly fee, with filters and service included |
| Storage | Full and empty jugs stacked somewhere | Nothing to store |
| Lifting | About 40 pounds per jug, every swap | Nothing to lift |
| Running out | You wait for the next delivery | No delivery to wait on — it runs off your line |
| Temperatures | Usually hot and cold | Hot, cold and room temperature |
| Ice | No | Yes, on our combination water-and-ice machines |
| Plastic | A steady cycle of jugs in and out | No jugs at all |
What is your bottled water really costing you?
Most offices have never added it up. Pull your last three delivery invoices and look for:
- The number of jugs, times the price per jug
- Cooler or dispenser rental
- Bottle deposits
- Delivery, fuel or service charges
Then add the time someone spends swapping 40-pound jugs, and the space the stack takes up. That total is what you’re really paying for water.
Send us one of those invoices and we’ll put a flat monthly number right next to it. It usually costs less than a bottled-water contract — and there’s nothing to lift, store or reorder. Use the form on our free trial page or call 877-381-7873.
Why choose a bottle-less cooler?
pH Balanced
Sanitary
Eco-Friendly
Cost Effective
Multi-Stage Filtration
Avoid Injury
Cold or Hot
Ice
Hydration is essential to good health and vitality…We all need plenty of clean drinking water. In the workplace, our water needs to be clean, cold, convenient and affordable.
Bottled water is a messy business. Plastic water bottles are made from oil…17 million barrels a year, actually! And it takes three times the amount of water to make the bottle as it does to fill it.
Once manufactured, these bottles are filled with treated water at a bottling facility, warehoused and then loaded onto trucks…and finally, delivered to their destination…where they clutter up your office.
The bottled water cooler itself is an open well with no barriers to air or water-borne bacteria or other contamination.
And you can almost count on someone being injured while lifting those awkward 40-pound bottles.
Bottle-less coolers eliminate plastic bottles, along with all of their problems by using the latest water filtration and purification technologies to transform already-available tap water. This multi-stage process removes particulates like dirt and rust, along with lead, chlorine and other harmful chemicals.
As a final barrier to contamination, the purified water is stored in a sealed, sanitary holding tank. It’s like having a purification plant right in your office…providing a continuous flow of cold, clean and delicious drinking water…that’s better than bottled.
Try one free for a week
We’ll install a machine at your office and your team uses it free for a week. No contract, no deposit, no card. If it’s not a fit, we pick it up and that’s the end of it.
Water Technology Solutions is a family-owned business founded in 2007. We install and service every machine ourselves, for offices across Ventura, Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino and Santa Barbara counties — from small offices to the LA Kings and Marriott.
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