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Are you considering installing water bottle filling stations at your facility?
Eighty percent of the trash in the oceans and other various marine debris is plastic. Water bottle filling stations reduce this waste, keeping thousands of pounds of plastic out of the Earth's oceans and waterways. So, where should an eco-conscious facility owner, operator, or manager like you place water bottle filling stations? Let's check out the top five locations ideal for these bottle fillers. First, let's review the reasons to get a bottle filling station, besides the environmental motivations.
Key Takeaways:
- Reasons to install water bottle filling stations include healthier, better tasting water, reduces waste, saves money, and offers a viable solution to the plastic bottle crisis.
- Sports arenas, gyms, shopping malls, and anywhere large congregations of people meet are great locations for promoting hydration with well-placed water bottle filling stations.
- Harry Reid International (LAS) Airport in Las Vegas has smart water technology with its refrigerated water bottle filling stations that offer users purified water to drink.
- Outdoor recreational areas like parks, campgrounds, ballparks, and municipal trails are ideal locations for water bottle filling stations.
- While you can fill a water bottle at a drinking fountain, a water bottle filling station is a more convenient way for users to refill water bottles and stay hydrated.
Reasons Your Facility Needs a Water Bottle Filling Station
Water bottle filling stations have become a craze in recent years. People love how convenient and easy to use they are and that it offers a hygienic option for finding clean, safe drinking water. All anyone needs to use a bottle filler is a reusable water bottle, canteen, or any container of their choosing.
The best part about these filling stations is that you can place them just about anywhere in an assortment of public spaces, from permanent structures to temporary buildings, like modular construction and prefabs.
Whether someone is a tourist, employee, student, or pedestrian, anyone can easily spot a water bottle filling station (and more are getting installed every day). Here's why facility owners and municipality managers are installing more water bottle filling stations:
- Eliminate lead contamination
- More hygienic
- Better tasting water
- Promotes healthier hydration
- Reduces waste
- Feasible solution for the plastic crisis
- Saves money
5 Locations That Need Water Bottle Filling Stations
If you've decided that you need water bottle filling stations placed throughout your facility but aren't sure if your location would be ideal for a water station, check out these top five places facility managers install bottle fillers:
1. Schools and Educational Institutions
Educational facilities like secondary schools, higher education institutions, colleges, and universities are great locations for water bottle filling stations. With more focus in recent years on health and wellness, bottle fillers encourage students to remain hydrated.
Students at Arizona State University made an argument regarding the need for additional water bottle filling stations located around campus.
In their presentation, the students cited that the places where the bottle fillers were was inconvenient and petitioned for school administrators to install additional bottle fillers throughout campus. Students, faculty, and guests claim it is due to the lack of accessibility that they don't use the bottle filling stations more often.
That's why you should place water bottle filling stations around campus. Ensure that you have enough to meet the needs of the students, faculty, and staff and install them in convenient locations around the school grounds.
2. Sports Arenas and Gyms
Whether you manage a professional sports stadium or a local community gym, athletes require hydration. Water bottle filling stations provide much-needed water to athletes and their spectators.
3. Shopping Malls and Retail Complexes
If you have ever been shopping on Black Friday (or during another crazy sale) or gone on a major buying spree at the local mall, you know how thirsty a person can get when shopping. Installing water bottle fillers strategically throughout the retail complex will allow shoppers to hydrate, encouraging them to stay longer and spend more.
4. Airports, Train Stations, Bus Terminals
Advanced smart water technology at airports is leading the initiative to provide clean drinking water to travelers worldwide. Several water bottle fillers offer purification and refrigeration to ensure the water is as safe as it is tasty.
5. Parks and Recreational Areas
Parks and outdoor recreational areas like campgrounds, ballparks, and municipal trails are ideal locations for water bottle filling stations. Install them on the exterior of outdoor structures or along trailheads for ease and convenience.
Drinking Fountain vs. Water Bottle Fillers
Sure, you can use a drinking fountain to refill a water bottle. Hopefully, the stream is high enough so you can fit your bottle under it. Otherwise, you get to attempt to contort a non-pliable container to fit under the water with room to tilt it to get it full enough to make it worth the trouble.
Or...
You can use a water bottle filling station that allows you to hold the water bottle upright as it fills with delicious, hydrating water. Simply put, a bottle-filling station is more convenient than a standard drinking fountain. That said, not every facility needs a water bottle filler.
For example, some gyms and sports arenas do not allow patrons to bring their own water bottles, either for health code reasons or so they can make more from concessions.
Either way, neither would benefit from a bottle filler. A drinking fountain allows users to get a single serving of water any time they head to the water fountain.
Durable Options for Water Bottle Filling Stations at Chicago Faucets
Whether you retrofit your existing fountains with glass filler spouts or install water bottle filling stations throughout your facilities, Chicago Faucets has the fixtures and fittings you need for your next plumbing project. We have water fountain spouts, glass filler taps, and the fittings you need to ensure the longevity of your water bottle filling station.
Looking for more ways to promote positive hydration habits by providing guests, visitors, and patrons of your facilities with water stations? Contact us today for more ideas.
