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Watercooler, c. 1910 |
Water coolers have evolved from simply relying on a block of ice for cooling water for victorian households to highly technical machines meeting strict health, sanitation and environmental standards.
By the mid to late 1980’s entrepreneurs in the UK realised
an opportunity to create a watercooler market in the UK, which
helped to encourage people to increase their water intake.
Primarily, the watercoolers were bottle fed, and the industry
was initially driven by the bottled water producing companies.
The customers liked the perceived quality of water in a bottle.
Without doubt the mineral water suppliers had a good case to
make but some other bottled waters were sourced from the mains
supply, filtered and bottled. This was and still is a very
expensive way of buying filtered mains water!!
During the 1990’s, again led by America, there was a change
in emphasis from bottled watercoolers to watercoolers that
incorporated filters, cutting out the expensive costs of the
bottling process, cost of bottles and the huge cost of
delivery. This trend is now happening in the UK, with more and
more mains fed watercoolers being supplied to both new
watercooler users and existing bottled watercooler customers.
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