If you’re attracted to the personal and environmental benefits of green living, it’s time to investigate home and office water delivery. Billions of single-serve water bottles are sold each year, resulting in enormous piles of landfill plastic. Home water delivery supplies a fresh, healthy alternative to tap water and bottled water—without contributing to excessive plastic waste.

Water Delivery Services: The Obvious Advantages

In addition to preventing the wasteful use of disposable plastic water bottles, home and office water delivery offers customers other ways of impacting the environment and influencing their health. Consider the following benefits:

1. Reduce, recycle, reuse: When you receive home water delivery, your three- to five-gallon plastic bottle won’t end up in the landfill. Instead, reputable water services will sanitize and reuse your water bottle to ensure a lengthy life expectancy.
2. Bottle-free options: Many office water delivery services offer jug-free water coolers that plumb into existing water lines, filtering water without the need for bottles. In addition to avoiding plastic waste, these systems prevent home and business owners from having to store and handle large, heavy water jugs.
3. Reducing your carbon footprint: When you order home or office water delivery from a local distributor, you’ll reduce the transportation costs and negative environmental impact caused by trucking bottled water from several cities—or states—away.
4. Contaminant-free drinking source: If you dislike the taste and smell of your tap water or are concerned about the presence of pollutants, home water delivery is a safe, contaminant-free drinking option. And as a bonus—when you sign up for office delivery, you’ll provide employees with a healthy, on-site alternative to sodas and other sugary drinks.

Find a Local Water Delivery Service

Founded in 1936, Culligan is a recognized leader in fast, healthy water delivery. When you’re ready to go green, it’s easy to find a water delivery company near you. Call today for local delivery options, monthly price quotes and more information about how you can impact the environment—and your health—through green home and office water solutions.

A significant portion of America, especially in rural areas still use a well to get their drinking water.  While this is a safe method for getting drinking water (and, often the only available method) – the homeowner should be aware of potential issues.  It also is a good idea to have your local Culligan Man come and test your water if you notice any of these following issues:

• Rotten Egg Odor
• Detergent Odor or foaming water
• Gasoline or oil smell
• methane/musty smell
• Chlorine Smell

Everyone knows that water is essential to health – and having fresh, clean water in your home is of vital importance. However, most people that aren’t satisfied with their tap water have limited options.  You may not want a whole home water system, so you’re left with purchasing expensive bottled water that’s bad for the environment, or spending tons of money on off the shelf replacement filters.

Another option is to have your local Culligan Man deliver bottled water right to your door! It’s cost, time, and environmentally effective!

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Information paraphrased from Winnipeg.ca

Where does Winnipeg’s Drinking Water Come From?

We get our drinking water from Shoal Lake, which is located on the border between Manitoba and Ontario. Shoal Lake was chosen as the best source of water supply for our city in 1912, and that is still true today.

• Water flows from Shoal Lake to Winnipeg by gravity through a 135 kilometre long aqueduct (concrete pipe).
• The water is stored in Deacon Reservoir, a large reservoir that can hold 8.8 billion litres, enough water to supply Winnipeg for about 20 days.
• Water passes from Deacon Reservoir to three smaller reservoirs and pumping stations in different areas of the city.
• Each day, we deliver an average of 215 million litres of water to approximately 270,000 Winnipeg homes and businesses.

Is Winnipeg’s Drinking Water Safe?

The drinking water in Winnipeg isn’t any more unsafe than most areas – meaning it’s ok to drink.  However, it doesn’t always live up to guidelines for turbidity, odor, or Trihalomethanes. For a full report on Winnipeg’s drinking water quality – check out the full report.

A common complaint about local tap or well water is that it occasionally has a sulphur (or, rotten egg) smell.  This is caused by Hydrogen Sulfide gas (H2S) that occurs naturally, and gives water its trademark “rotten egg” smell and taste.

Is Sulphur Smelling Water Dangerous?
Most of the time, no.  A sulphur smell in your water likely doesn’t relate to the sanitary level of your water.  However, it IS possible that exposure to sewage or other pollution, and you should have your local Culligan Dealer test your water.

Here are a couple general tips to go by when identifying the source of your sulphur smelling water:

• If the smell is only from the hot water faucet the problem is likely to be in the water heater.

• If the smell is in both the hot and cold faucets, but only from the water treated by a water softener and not in the untreated water the problem is likely to be sulfur bacteria in the water softener.

• If the smell is strong when the water in both the hot and cold faucets is first turned on, and it diminishes or goes away after the water has run, or if the smell varies through time the problems is likely to be sulfur bacteria in the well or distribution system.

• If the smell is strong  when the water in both the hot and cold faucets is first turned on and is more or less constant and persists with use the problem is likely to be hydrogen sulfide gas in the groundwater.

An easy solution to this is to set up a whole home water treatment system – such as the reverse osmosis water softening equipment provided by Culligan dealers in your area.

Culligan’s corporate office recently launched a press release covering their new product – the world’s only certified whole-house arsenic filtration system.

Here are some excerpts from the release:

To address consumer concerns about arsenic in their water, Culligan, the leader in home water treatment solutions for more than 70 years, just introduced the only certified Whole-House Arsenic Reduction Filter on the market. The entire system has been tested and certified by the Water Quality Association (WQA) against NSF/ANSI Standard 53 for the reduction of total arsenic (pentavalent and trivalent). Homeowners can be assured that the new Culligan solution is backed by third-party certification experts who uphold independent testing standards to validate which devices are successful at reducing arsenic and other contaminants. Whythird party certification is important to consumers is the entire system passed laboratory tests (including arsenic reduction performance), material review, structural integrity, and literature compliance.

As you can see – this is another step forward by your local Culligan man to improve the quality of your drinking water. If you’d like to learn more, please contact one of the Culligan dealers in your area.  Here’s links to a few areas of interest:

Iowa City Home Water Softener
Binghamton Home Water Softener
Winnipeg Home Water Softener

An article from last summer at cbc.ca outlines some common problems Winnipeg residenta have with their drinking water.

Winnipeggers are holding their noses yet again to fend off the distinctive musty smell and taste that often plague the city’s tap water in the summer.

Winnipeg’s water has an odd taste for a few weeks almost every year due to seasonal algae growth in Shoal Lake, a 227-square-kilometre lake on the Manitoba-Ontario border that provides Winnipeg’s drinking water.

Despite its unpleasant taste and smell, Winnipeg tap water is still safe to drink, says Winnipeg Regional Health Authority’s medical officer of health. Tap water is routinely tested during the summer season for substances produced by algae.

If you, like many consumers, are interested in improving the quality of the water in your home, you should contact your local Culligan Man!

Stewart Water Conditioning has been serving the Winnipeg, Manitoba area for years – and can provide you with anything from bottled water to whole home water treatment systems!

You can check out their contact information here.