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Bottled Water Myths

Water is a strangely controversial topic these days. There are groups of people that demonize tap water but then there are other groups of people that demonize bottled water. How can we win? Short of collecting rainwater to survive off, the best thing to do is dispel the myths that are being spread about.
Bottled water is crazy expensiveSome figures state that bottled water costs consumers 1,000 times what tap water does (this article from a few years ago ups this figure to 2,000). This would mean that the amount of water you’d pay a cent for out of your tap would cost you $10 if you bought it bottled from a store.
Perhaps if you sought out the fanciest brand selling the most luxurious sparkling water, you might find something akin to this price. But, most bottled water is much more affordable than this and you can buy it extremely cheaply if you buy large bottles of water in bulk.
Bottled water is less strictly regulated than tap water
It is not true that bottled water is not regulated as much as tap water. The FDA stringently regulates the safety of bottled water while the EPA stringently regulates the safety of tap water. You can read more about the regulations of bottled water on the FDA’s website.
Bottled water companies are just bottling tap water
This would be a savvy, albeit illegal, way to earn money. Bottle tap water and sell it off at a premium. But going back to it being illegal, bottled water companies would not get away with doing this. Although some brands do source their purified water from municipal water sources, the water then goes through various treatments to ensure that it meets the FDA’s high standards of purified water and is bottled in a sterile manner.
Water bottles are bad for the environment because they can’t be recycled
This is false. Plastic water bottles can 100% be recycled, and that includes the cap and the label. The sometimes shocking statistics about plastic use come from how they are used, not the materials in the water bottles themselves.
Unfortunately, a high percentage of plastic water bottles are not recycled properly, but this can be combatted by us all being more conscientious in how we dispose of water bottles. Opting for large water bottles and water delivery services rather than small, single-use water bottles can also help this. We properly dispose of all water bottles after collecting them from our customers.
If you’re interested in arranging a bottled water delivery service for your home or office in North Carolina or Virginia, then contact us to find out more.
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Can You Get Dehydrated in Cold Weather?

When you’re dripping with sweat from the heat, it’s easy to remember the risks of dehydration. So, we’re more likely to keep water with us and remember to drink it in hot weather. But what about the cold, winter seasons? Some people mistakenly think that you can’t get dehydrated in cold weather. At the very least, it won’t be at the forefront of our mind like it is in the heat.
To understand the idea of cold weather dehydration better, read on.
You can still get dehydrated in cold weatherYes, dehydration is still a risk when the weather is cold. It can even be more of a risk because we tend to experience feelings of thirst less intensely when it is cold. This means we’re likely to be drinking less throughout the day without even thinking about it. But, just like in the summer, we still need to drink a certain amount of water each day to stay hydrated and healthy.
How do we lose water in the cold?
When it’s cold, our bodies still lose water in a variety of ways, including:
Sweating – When you exercise in the cold, even just walking somewhere, you may not notice your body sweating as much as you do in the heat, but you do still produce sweat. If you’re taking part in outdoor sports like skiing, then you’ll also be wrapped up warm, which can increase the amount you sweat.
Our breath – You know how you can see your breath when the weather is cold? This vapor contains lots of tiny water droplets that are leaving your body through your breath.
Urinating – You still go to the toilet when it’s cold, which means your body is still losing water. This reflex can even be increased when it’s cold because of the increased blood flow trying to warm your body up. This means more blood flowing to your kidneys and, therefore, more frequent urination. Plus, all the hot drinks you’re having to warm yourself up can act as diuretics.
The importance of staying hydrated in the winter
As you can see, it’s just as important to stay hydrated in cold weather as it is in the summer. Check out our blog for tips on how to stay hydrated in the cold weather. If you would like a water delivery service to help you stay hydrated, then get in touch with Mountain Park Spring Water today.
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Tips for Remembering to Drink Water

We’re sure you know by now how important it is to drink water and how much you need on a daily basis, but we understand that it’s not always easy to drink as much as you should. When you’re busy, it can be easy to forget to stay hydrated, or maybe you’re just not near a convenient source of water throughout the day. We’ve got some tips to help you remember to drink water each day, no matter where you are.

There’s an app for that
There are lots of mobile apps that are geared towards helping you stay healthy, and hydration is no exception. There are apps that give you reminders when you need to drink water, such as the Water Drink Reminder, and others that make tracking your water intake fun, like Plant Nanny, which involves growing your own virtual plants with the water you drink.

Keep a bottle with you
You’re not always near a water point, if you’re out walking or in class, for example, so carrying a bottle of water with you makes drinking more water convenient. Reusable and refillable plastic or stainless steel water bottlesallow you to keep water at your desk or in your bag at all times during the day. You can even buy bottles printed with reminders, or draw them on yourself, of when you should drink and how much.

Infuse your water
If you find water too boring to drink all day, then you can try infusing it with fruits or vegetables to add a bit of extra flavor. Cucumber, lemon, orange, and lavender are all great ways to add some zing to your bottle of water. You can even buy infuser water bottles that make this easier for you.

Eat more water
You don’t just have to drink water, adding more water-dense foods to your diet helps to up your intake without even realising it. Juicy fruits like watermelon, apples, and grapes are all good sources of water for your sweet tooth, as well as lots of water-filled vegetables like cucumber, broccoli, and lettuce.

Invest in a water filter
Drinking more water at home and at work is much easier if you constantly have fresh, cold water on hand. Adding a water filter, cooler, or dispenser to your home or office makes it easier to drink enough water each day.

Drinking water doesn’t have to be a chore. Follow these five tips to make sure you’re drinking enough to stay hydrated every day. You can contact Mountain Park Spring Water if you are interested in water dispensers or delivery services for your home or office. Helping more people stay hydrated across North Carolina and Virginia. 
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Hydrating in Summer

Summer is here and so are all the joys that come along with it. But, there can also be some dangers that come along with summer and the hot weather we experience. One of those dangers is dehydration. Staying well hydrated in summer can be much harder than the rest of the year because the sun and the heat make us lose more water from our body through sweating.
We’ve already seen some of the amazing benefits of staying well hydrated, so if you’re worried about keeping yourself, your kids, or your employees hydrated this summer, read on for some vital tips.
How much water does your body need?
The common piece of advice is to drink 8 cups of water per day to stay healthy and well hydrated. But, if you’re sweating a lot due to heat or physical activity, then you should actually be drinking more than this in order to replenish the lost fluids. Upping your daily intake to 10 glasses can help a lot. When you’re sweating a lot, especially during intense exercise, some experts recommend as much as 2-4 cups in an hour. You can reduce this amount once the activity ceases, of course.
How to get enough water
Especially when we’re busy, it can be difficult to get as much water as we need. The next thing you know you’re feeling lightheaded and tired, and you’re not sure why. Make sure you’re familiar with the common signs of dehydration to help you stay on top of it. To help you out this summer, here are some excellent ways to get enough water in the hot weather.
Don’t wait until you’re thirsty
The mistake that some people make is only drinking water when they’re thirsty. While this sounds like a logical thing to do, it is not ideal for proper hydration. It is better to drink water regularly throughout the day, staying a few steps ahead of dehydration and preventing you from feeling thirsty in the first place.
Keep water on handIf you have water nearby, then you are more likely to remember to drink it. Keeping a bottle of water with you at all times makes it easy to take regular sips throughout the day. A water dispenser is the most convenient way to keep refilling your bottle, and having a water cooler in the office is handy for keeping your employees hydrated.
Avoid alcohol
A cold beverage on a hot day may be refreshing, but it is certainly not hydrating. Alcohol is a diuretic, which means it has the opposite effect on your body and makes dehydration much more likely, so tries to reduce your alcohol intake in the hot weather.
You can find lots more tips on how to stay hydrated from health blogs. A bottled water service is the perfect tool to keep you and your family hydrated this summer, so get in touch to find out more about our water delivery service. We serve customers across North Carolina and Virginia.
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Storing Water Bottles

A bottled water delivery service gives you convenient access to fresh water in your home or office. But, what about storing the large bottles of water to use in your water dispenser or cooler? If you’re worried you don’t have sufficient or suitable space for storing water bottles, then read on for our tips on how to properly store water bottles.

Keep them out of the sun
You don’t want your bottled water going warm, even if you’re going to be putting it through a water cooler before it gets consumed, so it is best to store your water bottles in a shaded area or a cool cupboard. Water bottles exposed to direct sunlight can also start to breakdown slightly and let components of the plastic seep into the water. 

This can affect the taste of the water and, depending on the type of plastic used, can also add trace amounts of harmful chemicals to your water. The plastic used in our water bottles is completely safe, but it is still advisable to store your water bottles away from direct sunlight. 

Use a storage rack
Bottled water storage racks are the most convenient way to store and organize your bottled water, especially if you don’t have enough space in a nearby storage closet or kitchen cabinet. We sell bottle storage racks that allow you to store anywhere between 2 to 12 large bottles, depending on how many bottles you tend to store at a time. 

Keep away from chemicals
You might have space under your sink to store your water bottles, and this makes sense since it’s near a water source and probably near your water dispenser. But, you should avoid storing your bottles in the same space as cleaning products, chemicals, and solvents. This is because plastic can be slightly permeable, so storing the bottles near chemicals for long periods of time could lead to them seeping into your water in small amounts. 

Near your water cooler
You don’t want to be lugging large bottles of water around the house to get them to your water cooler, so it makes sense to store them next to or at least nearby your water cooler or dispenser. If you don’t have suitable storage space nearby, then take a look at the link above for our water bottle storage racks. 

If you’d like to arrange a fresh bottled water delivery service for your home or office, or if you need additional accessories for your water cooler, get in touch with us at Mountain Park Spring Water, operating around North Carolina and Virginia. 
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Down the Drain

Every day, 400 billion gallons of water are used in the US alone. About half of that usage is dedicated to thermoelectric power generation. The rest goes to agricultural, industrial and residential uses. In the US, one residence can use up to 100,000 gallons of water per year. However, not all of this water is used and a percentage is actually wasted!
A running faucet produces about two gallons of water per minute. With this in mind, if you turn your faucet off while brushing your teeth, you can save about four gallons each time! A faulty faucet that leaks at one drop per second can waste between 2,700 and 3,000 gallons of water every year.
Older toilets use about three gallons of water per flush where newer toilets only use roughly one gallon. If your toilet is broken and is constantly running, it can waste up to 200 gallons per day! Taking a bath uses about 70 gallons of water where as five minutes in the shower uses between 10 and 25 gallons. Baths and showers are the largest domestic uses of water in the US.
If you’re looking to contribute to water conservation, start by fixing your faucets, replacing your toilets and opting for showers instead of baths. Another great way to make sure water isn’t wasted is to choose filtered bottled water over tap water in a glass. You can take your Mountain Park Spring Water with you on the go when it’s in a 20-ounce bottle. If you fill a glass with tap water and you don’t finish drinking it, that’s more drops down the drain.
With our water delivery to homes and businesses, having fresh spring water is just as convenient as getting water from the sink. Water coolers and bottled water are both great alternatives to using more water from your faucet that has the potential to be wasted. It tastes better too! If you’re located in Winston Salem, Greensboro, High Point, or the surrounding area, give us a call today. We also service the greater Martinsville and Danville area in Virginia.
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Why You Should Use Stainless Steel Water Bottles

The battle against plastic is raging on and people all over the world are thinking up ways of making food and drink packaging, among other things, more sustainable. Here at Mountain Park Spring Water, we have started to sell stainless steel water bottles to use with your water dispensers. This allows you to easily carry water with you throughout the day without creating excess waste produced by lots of small plastic bottles.
If you’re not yet converted to the ways of stainless steel water bottles, here are some of the main benefits of using them.
They’re durable
Stainless steel is an incredibly strong and long-lasting material, so you can get real value for money from your stainless steel water bottle by using it over a long period of time. Individual-use plastic water bottles, in comparison, are incredibly flimsy and not normally fit to be used repeatedly. Even plastic bottles designed for reuse are much weaker than stainless steel ones, and may not be suitable for dishwashers.
They’re recyclable
Stainless steel bottles are completely recyclable, and the methods used for recycling them are much safer and environmentally friendly than the process of recycling plastic. This is good news for the environment when you decide to get rid of your bottle or buy a new one.
They’re BPA free
BPA is a potentially harmful chemical found in some plastics that can become a problem when a plastic bottle is reused over and over again. While many plastic bottles are now made to be BPA-free, you can rest even easier knowing that your stainless steel bottle is safe, as this is not an ingredient found in steel.
They’re insulative
An added benefit of stainless steel bottles compared to plastic bottles is that they have insulating properties. This means that if you fill your stainless steel bottle with cold water first thing in the morning, it will stay cool for much longer throughout the day compared to regular plastic bottles. The same goes for if you’re storing hot drinks in your bottle – they stay hot while you’re on the go.
Purchasing a reusable water bottle makes sense in so many ways, and your main options are plastic, glass, aluminum, or stainless steel. While stainless steel might be slightly more expensive than other options, it certainly boasts a lot of benefits, both to you and the environment. If you would like to add stainless steel water bottles onto your water delivery service to use with your water dispenser, then get in touch today.
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Did you know?

​Earth is also known as the “blue planet” because its surface is covered more by water than by land. To be exact, 70.9% of Earth’s surface is covered in water and water is the most common substance on the planet. However, only a small percentage of the water supply is freshwater and an even smaller percentage is available for human use.
Let’s take a look at the numbers. There is estimated to be about 326 million trillion gallons of water on the planet. About 97% of this is located in the oceans and is salty or otherwise undrinkable. Roughly 2% of the remaining freshwater is trapped in ice caps and glaciers. This leaves around 1% of Earth’s water supply for our uses – agricultural, industrial, residential and otherwise.
Though water is constantly changing forms and travelling around the globe, there has been the same amount of water on the planet for billions of years. The water you’re using to wash your car may have one time been part of a watering hole for prehistoric animals. Wow!
The planet holds so much water and that water has been around for so long, it may be hard to know where your water has been or where it’s coming from. That’s where we come in. We provide you with peace of mind in knowing that the spring water you’re drinking from your water cooler has been processed and bottled locally. It’s clean and safe and, with home delivery, it’s convenient.
We will deliver bottled water to your home or office so you never have to wonder where your next sip is coming from. We may be surrounded by water on this “blue planet” but only a small percentage is drinkable. Mountain Park is your reliable source for filtered drinking water. If you’re located in Winston Salem, Greensboro, High Point, or the surrounding area, give us a call today! We also service the greater Martinsville and Danville area of Virginia.
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Pack a Bottled Water to Improve Your Work or School Day

In the morning, when you’re packing lunch for yourself to take to work or for your child to take to school, remember to pack a Mountain Park bottled water. Not only is it a better alternative to soda, it’s the best way to hydrate your brain for the school or work day.
The human brain is composed of 75% water. This means the result of being dehydrated is poor mental function. Being thirsty is a distraction to the mind. The body will be focused on getting rehydrated and this distraction, like any other distraction, impairs one’s mental response time. Dehydration leads to impaired memory function and loss of creativity and clarity in cognitive processes.
Let’s look at the numbers. A one percent decrease in the hydration of the brain equates to a five percent drop in cognitive function. During the work or school day, one needs to be at the peak of mental cognitions. A bottle of fresh spring water from Mountain Park could help!
Spring water is the best option for hydrating your body and your brain. Alternative sugary drinks can adversely affect your cognitive functions. They can also lead to increased depression and anxiety, especially in children. Sugar and artificial sweeteners often lead to an inflamed hippocampus. This important part of the brain controls functions related to learning and memory. Staying hydrated with water is important for optimizing all cognitive functions used at work or school.
Packing bottles of water is important because in some cases the only option is an unfiltered water fountain or a vending machine full of those sugary drinks that decrease mental performance. Children at school may not have regular access to filtered water at lunch or during classes unless they bring a water bottle. Some offices may not provide a water cooler or filtered water alternative. Our bottled water delivery service is the best way to keep bottled water on hand to take when going to work or school or anywhere else!
Home water delivery takes the hassle out of obtaining filtered water for the home. Our office water service could help improve hydration for everyone in the office and increase overall productivity and mood!
Mountain Park Spring Water delivers 20-ounce bottles to your home, convenient for packing. Or you can refill your own reusable water bottle from the three-gallon or five-gallon jugs that we deliver to your home or office. If you’re located in Winston Salem, Greensboro, High Point, or the surrounding area, give us a call today! We also service the greater Martinsville and Danville area in Virginia!
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Why Bottled Water Delivery?

Did you know having easy access to clean drinking water promotes proper hydration? When there’s a bottle of water in the fridge or a water cooler in the office, it’s a reminder to stay hydrated. And when it’s readily available and stocked in place of soda, you’re promoting a heathy lifestyle for everyone around you. Bottled water delivery carries its own benefits too.
When we deliver 20 oz, 3-gallon or 5-gallon bottles of water to your home, you are saving time that you would otherwise spend going to the store to purchase bottled water. Our water delivery services can also spare you the energy and possible muscle aches associated with getting fresh bottled water in your home. Purchasing bottled water in bulk from us is more affordable than purchasing small cases of water from the grocery store. 
Let’s look at the alternative – tap water. Sure, you save time, money and energy by drinking water from the sink, but what are you risking? This water could be contaminated with chemicals or bacteria that could affect your family’s health. Not to mention tap water typically has a foul taste. Get fresh-tasting, purified water in your home or office simply by picking up the phone and giving us a call today.