A popular spot where you can store you water is the garage. All you need is a small corner of the garage where you can place the bottle. It will be out of the way yet easily accessible. Another great spot is if you have a pantry, in every pantry there is that rarely used spot that collects dust, place the bottle there, it will be out of the way and near the cooler.

Bottled Water Coolers are ideal for the home and with a regular water delivery you should not have to worry about storing the bottles. Though if you want to think ahead and have a bottle at hand in case the water runs out, know how to store it.

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• We spend 47 minutes and 48seconds commuting (TUC). It may feel like 47 minutes too many, but it’s still less than a third of the time it takes millions of women to make one journey to collect water to meet their families’ needs.
• Across Africa, the average amount of time spent fetching water is three hours a day, with some people spending up to 10 hours a day collecting water. A total of 40bn working hours every year are lost to water collection. More often than not, the water collected is dirty, resulting in life-​threatening diseases such as diarrhoea or cholera.
• In the UK, people spend an average of five hours 48 minutes on social networking sites per week (comScore). In Sub-​Saharan Africa, that’s two trips to collect water.
• The average adult exercises just 50 minutes a week (Weight Watchers), which is less than a third of one trip to collect 20kg of water.
• A UK bride-​to-​be spends an average of 250 hours preparing for a wedding. That’s equivalent to 83 journeys to collect water. Planning the royal wedding will undoubtedly take longer!
• Mr Average in Britain spends six hours and 12 minutes a week watching, talking about and keeping up to date on football (BT Vision). After that amount of time, a woman in the developing world would be making her third trip in one day to collect water.
• We spend about six hours a week drinking tea and coffee (LearnDirect). That’s two trips to collect water, with no coffee break.
• It takes a mighty 3,600 study hours to complete an Open University Honours degree. That’s little more than three years spent fetching water – time better spent on education.
• It takes on average 47 hours of driving lessons to pass a driving test in the UK (DirectGov). In the same amount of time, millions in Africa will have made just 15trips to collect water, and they won’t be making those journeys by car.
• The average man will spend five hours a week staring at different women (Kodak Lens Vision Centres). In one week, the average woman in a developing country would have spent 21 hours collecting water.

“We might complain about the amount of time we spend travelling to work, but our daily commutes can’t compare with the hours women in the developing world spend walking to fetch water – a basic necessity we take for granted,” said Girish Menon, director for International Programmes at WaterAid.

“In the light of coolers becoming cheaper to buy, how can the rental business retain an ‘added value’ service and what factors must rentals companies focus on to maintain a foothold in the cooler market?”

The water cooler business in the UK is definitely showing signs of maturity. Customers have options between bottleless and bottled water coolers, drinking water fountains are growing in popularity and companies are increasingly having to deal with customers who are significantly more educated regarding pricing and service options by comparing water cooler companies online.

UK water cooler companies that simply look to protect their rental income streams will struggle and ultimately fail in the future. The Water Cooler industry needs to adapt to a changing environment and look to build long term service relationships, with both purchase and rental customers, that ensure long term protected revenue streams.

It must also be remembered that customers don’t purchase water coolers simply because they are cheaper to buy. Many choose to use capital budgets for equipment such as water coolers and therefore rental options are simply not applicable. This is especially true of the customers who use our specialist website – www.drinkingwaterfountains.co.uk. Drinking Water Fountains are often installed in buildings during a kit out and therefore fall in capital budgets. So which ever way you look at it rental water cooler businesses need to provide purchase options for customers, and given the way there are increasing options online for purchasing these rental companies need to provide competitive pricing.

When I first came into the industry seven years ago rental companies would often only be offering limited purchase options and these were priced at extreme markups – and I can almost guarantee that these were offered to persuade people that rental was the cheaper option. With transparency of pricing online this simply does not stack up. The water cooler industry must adapt itself to normal retail margins as there will be significant amount of “box shops” who will compete at these levels. More importantly they will also survive as businesses with these margins.

If water cooler companies look to building long term service relationships with both rental and purchase customers they are also able to build a business with long term revenue streams. As long as margins are right we can therefore build businesses with the trained engineers and well paid staff can support the customers’ water cooler experience. So adapt to the perceived “threat” of water coolers for sale, and then structure the pricing and service options within your business carefully – there will always be certain products with higher margins than others.

For these reasons and many, many more the water cooler industry needs to nurture innovation and weave the ability to adapt into the very fabric of its being. There are water cooler companies in the UK which have already embraced this.