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- Chapel Hill, NC
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- Retired Electrical Contractor
My kids use the Nalgene and nothing else. One is a bicyclist- biked across the country twice- and the other bikes a bit and runs also.
Drinking water on the job site
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K8MHZ
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How is it for you? Is it like keeping the water in glass, or does it taste like hose water to you when it gets warm?
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- Chapel Hill, NC
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- Retired Electrical Contractor
I have not used Nalgene-- I use glass bottles.
PowerSupportElec
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No taste at all, at least not that I noticed.
As for the first post, half of the gas stations around me have stacks of bottled water by the pumps during the Spring and Summer. It's like $2.99 per case of 24 16.9oz bottles. There is no way that you can pay someone to clean a cooler and get ice and water for it. What usually happens is the apprentice cleans the cooler and gets the ice and water on his own time, which I hate.
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Since BPA and its metabolic products are hormone analogs, they can cause problems in very small quantities in children and pregnant or nursing women. There is no strong information of effects on mature men. But they might be there too. Are there any women on the job site?
sparky220volt
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I really have a good PM and he's told me that he will reimburse me for the bottled water I would just like to prove to the office that the bottled water is a more efficient/cheaper way to provide clean drinking water to the men.
We do have women on the job sometimes but I was coming at it from a cost stand point.
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When I was overseas working during the Iraq conflict, we had pallets of bottled water all around the base. I can tell you that the water that had been left in the hot sun had a very distinct "plasticy" taste. I was in meetings where this issue was brought up and the solution proposed was to build shaded areas for the water storage. I think that helped, but I've always been a little skeptical of those plastic bottles ever since. That said, I drink the store bought ones here regularly and you can buy them for about 9 cents each at costco. Well worth it if you ask me. Just my 2 cents
Plastic Water Bottles
When I was overseas working during the Iraq conflict, we had pallets of bottled water all around the base. I can tell you that the water that had been left in the hot sun had a very distinct "plasticy" taste. I was in meetings where this issue was brought up and the solution proposed was to build shaded areas for the water storage. I think that helped, but I've always been a little skeptical of those plastic bottles ever since. That said, I drink the store bought ones here regularly and you can buy them for about 9 cents each at costco. Well worth it if you ask me. Just my 2 cents
renosteinke
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I challenge the assertion that there is a "Federal law" that requires employers to provide drinking water. Heck, even the 'toilet' requirement is chock full of qualifications.
Bottle or bulk? Well, where will the water for the jug come from? I've been on too many sites where the water available on site was not suitable for drinking.
Taste? I love the comment about water from a shallow well being pure and tasteless. Bull pucky. Having been raised in a semi-rural environment, I can tell you point blank that the water at every farm, park, and watering station tasted different. Oddly enough, I don't recall ever 'tasting' water from ponds and streams - though that water is certainly full of all manner of stuff.
I think there are two things that affect the taste of water: content and dissolved air. The 'hot' water probably tastes different simply because it has lost all its' dissolved air. My cats sure prefer the aerated water from the fountain to the stale water in the dish.
The matter quickly becomes academic, once you add Gator-ade, coffee, or whatever to the water.
Bottled water underscores another of my job-site sore points: trash disposal. I weary of tripping over, or relocating, everyone's trash- which the GC has decided will remain there until the end of the job.
Still ... cost concerns? With bottled water costing less per bottle than a good wire nut, aren't we looking at the wrong place to economise?
Bottle or bulk? Well, where will the water for the jug come from? I've been on too many sites where the water available on site was not suitable for drinking.
Taste? I love the comment about water from a shallow well being pure and tasteless. Bull pucky. Having been raised in a semi-rural environment, I can tell you point blank that the water at every farm, park, and watering station tasted different. Oddly enough, I don't recall ever 'tasting' water from ponds and streams - though that water is certainly full of all manner of stuff.
I think there are two things that affect the taste of water: content and dissolved air. The 'hot' water probably tastes different simply because it has lost all its' dissolved air. My cats sure prefer the aerated water from the fountain to the stale water in the dish.
The matter quickly becomes academic, once you add Gator-ade, coffee, or whatever to the water.
Bottled water underscores another of my job-site sore points: trash disposal. I weary of tripping over, or relocating, everyone's trash- which the GC has decided will remain there until the end of the job.
Still ... cost concerns? With bottled water costing less per bottle than a good wire nut, aren't we looking at the wrong place to economise?
PowerSupportElec
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Another thing I noticed larger jobsites doing is having the local spring water delivery company come and drop off a bunch of 5 gallon jugs. One for the cooler in each office trailer and then a bunch more to fill up the 5 gallon Igloo coolers.
One thing about bottled water is refrigeration, do you pay an apprentice to keep a small mini-frige filled with bottles? Or do you give the guys hot water that's been in the July sun?
One thing about bottled water is refrigeration, do you pay an apprentice to keep a small mini-frige filled with bottles? Or do you give the guys hot water that's been in the July sun?
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- Retired Electrical Contractor
I think that is a real issue. I am not sure how these bottles are stored or transported but we all know what the sun will do to plastic. Hopefully most of it is not sitting there in the direct sun.
PowerSupportElec
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Yeah, it's easy to find shade, but even in the shade the water is too warm when it's hot out.
I've been on jobs where there is a mini fridge but with a lot of guys in the sun it empties quick and if someone isn't refilling it then you are going to get warm water. Having an electric office cooler with a 5 gallon bottle on top helps this, but the cooler (like anything on a jobsite) gets dirty and beat up quickly, so you can't rent it.
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