Do you look at 5 gallons of bottled water and think, ah, there’s a refreshing beverage? You should - although the actual serving count for your average five-gallon bottle of water is closer to 80. But don’t limit yourself to thinking of water as a healthy, calorie-free thirst quencher - there’s lots you can do with five gallons of water.
Like what, you ask? Here’s a totally non-comprehensive list. With 5 gallons of water, you can:

• Cook approximately 5 pounds of pasta
• Keep a family of 4 hydrated for 2.5 days (or keep a single person hydrated for 10 days)
• Make 80 cups of tea or coffee
• Run a low-flow showerhead for 2 minutes or an old-school showerhead for less than 1 minute
• Water an orchid about 640 times (that’s 12 years of once-a-week watering, if you’re keeping track)
• Flush a low-flow toilet 3 times
• Sail a very, very small boat

Okay, realistically, you already know that water’s great and that you probably should drink more of it. And, unless you are very fussy, you’re probably not showering in bottled water or using it to flush your toilet. On the other hand, you may be a bottled water devotee - never feeling complete unless there is a stash of H2O nearby. Even so, you’re not going to replace your 24-ounce stainless steel bottle with a 5-gallon jug anytime soon, are you? So why go big in the water department?

In an office or home - really, anywhere there are a number of people - getting 5 gallon bottled water just makes sense. It’s more convenient, and having a reliable source of clean, good-tasting water will make it easier for everyone to stay hydrated and healthy(ier). So let Culligan of Lubbock fill your water needs. You can work on acquiring that boat.

Cheap bottled water. If you’re thinking of the commercial variety - the individual bottles so readily available at almost every store in the USA - then the phrase ‘cheap bottled water’ is something of a misnomer. Depending on the brand, bottled water goes for about $1 a shot, with the premier brands (what a friend of my refers to as ‘gold-plated water’) fetching closer to $2. How to get budget-friendly h20? You have two options.

Option 1 - Buy in Bulk.
Rather than spend $24 on 24 sixteen-ounce water bottles, it is far cheaper to buy a case. These will set you back about $5 to $7 at the time of this writing. That’s a savings of about $20, or getting 18 free when you buy 6. Talk about a bonus deal!

There are two major drawbacks to buying individual bottles of water in bulk. One is that you need to buy it often; a family of four could easily go through 2 or 3 cases a week if it is the main drinking water source. The other drawback is that all those plastic bottles end up in the recycling - or worse, in the garbage. Either way, it’s a waste of precious resources.
Fortunately, there’s a second option.

Option 2 - Make Your Own.
No, I’m not suggesting you start mashing hydrogen and oxygen atoms together. That’s already taken care of. All you need to do is get the water into a reusable bottle. Not only do you save money, you dramatically cut down waste - environmentally-friendly, cheap bottled water!

Wait a minute, you may think, my water tastes like tin foil. I’m not drinking that. Well, you don’t have to. Consult with our representatives, and you can have fresh, clean, good-tasting water via the magic of water filtration systems. Our reverse osmosis filtration system can pump out 50 gallons of water each day - that’s 800 8-oz glasses of water each day, or about 400 16-oz bottles of water. More than enough cheap bottled water for the thirstiest family!

Quick! Name four facts about drinking water:

1. It’s great for your skin.
2. Your body is made up of 80% water.
3. You need 8 glasses a day - no more, no less.
4. You can never have too much water.

Hmm. These facts need some investigating....

Fact 1: Drinking water is great for your skin.

True. Drinking enough water is great for your body in general, not just your skin. That’s because water rids the body of toxins, moves nutrients around to cells, and keeps your organs and mucus membranes happy and healthy.

Fact 2: Your body is made up of 80% water.

Wrong. Your body is about 60% water, but some areas - such as your brain - have a higher volume of water.

Being 60% water, your body needs to replace the water it uses each day. Simple things like breathing and sweating use up water. Without enough water coming in to replace the stuff you lose, dehydration starts. This condition ranges from mild to life-threateningly severe; for more information, check out this post, http://culliganlubbock.com/dehydration.

Fact 3: You need 8 glasses of drinking water a day - no more, no less.

Wrong. Eight 8-oz glasses of water each day is a good starting point, but it doesn’t tell the whole story. Your water needs depend on your activity level, environment, and other factors. Some people may do okay on six glasses; others may need 10 or more. What factors should make you up your water intake? Exercise, sweating, high heat or humidity, vomiting, fever, diarrhea, pregnancy, and breast feeding are common ones.

Fact 4: You can never have too much water.

Wrong - but rare. There is a condition where too much water dilutes the blood beyond a safe point. Unless you’re running a marathon or doing some type of endurance sport, though, you’re not likely to encounter it.

Great! Now that you’ve taken our drinking water quiz, how about pouring yourself a nice, cold glass of the good old H2O?