These days most companies now have water dispensers in their offices. They are easy, and cheap. You canget iced water or hot water and 5 gallon of water will cost around Rs150 to Rs250. The question is how clean is this water ?

These water cans if we call it that, are reused. Once a company that uses these has empties they may keep it out till all dust an dirt collects. Then after a week the water copmany comes by collects the empty can and replaces with a new, refilled water can.

When this was refilled, was it cleaned ? Are they following all the health and safety regulation ? Who knows?

Some time a ago, a small test was done. The water from one of these was taken to a testing facility and they found out it was not safe to drink. What happened next I’m not sure but that company still sells it’s water without a problem.

In order to be get certain required certifications for example the company has to be within all the required limits, but one place we found out was doing their bottling in an area which had their workers floor toilet ajoiing the building. According to standard bottling regulations this is strictly prohibited but they have been certified. Somebody made some money to fool us into drinking toilet water.

If you work in a company and a given water from these places it would be best to advise the company to do random checks on the water they provide you. It doesn’t cost a lot to get the water tested and atleast you know you are drinking safe water, and not contamiated toilet water.