filtered water available

A long time customer who had been shopping for years at our store, never knew we had a water filtration system!

In case you haven’t noticed it, it is discretely tucked into the corner beside the dairy cooler. This system consists of a commercial water softener ( to pre-soften Kitchener’s notoriously hard water), a commercial reverse osmosis system – sometimes referred to as a R/O system, three filters – two are pre-filters and one polishing filter. The filtered water then passes through a UV sterilizing light before it goes to our stainless steel water dispenser.

The whole filtration system is being maintained regularly by Graham Water Systems.

There is still some improvements to be done as the water lines are due to be  replaced at some point and we want to get a new water cooler so that our customers can have a drink of refreshing water while they do their shopping in the store.

[Ed. note: our new water cooler is up and running!]

We are bringing in more water containers and will be bringing in the ultimate water container – glass. Those 1 gallon glass jugs that were easy to obtain ten years ago or more are now hard to find.

[Ed. note: the 1 gallon water jugs are now a regular stock item]

Just a reminder that if  you buy any water container at our store, your first fill is free!

Water is 20 cents/liter.

banning plastic water bottles?

Not long after our post about the use of plastics in water bottles, the Canadian government banned the use plastic baby bottles containing BPA. We never had any of these in our store.

The health concerns appear to be with very hot or boiling water in plastic. Do not put a plastic baby bottle in the microwave to heat it!

Although the government is assuring us that these same plastics are safe with room temperature liquids, we still feel that many types of polycarbonate “sport” water bottles, should be replaced  with stainless steel.

We have 600ml food grade, stainless steel water bottles for a bit less than $13 dollars and 1.0 liter bottles for about $20.  

new water cooler for customers

It was time to retire the old, inefficient water cooler. The new one is far more energy efficient. Cold water, room temperature water and hot water for is available from this machine. Press the red button, wait a couple of minutes and the water is steaming hot. There is a safety interlock that locks out the hot water button from curious fingers.

Drinking water controversy

Plastic water containers. It is a pretty controversial subject right now.

What everyone can agree on is that people would rather not consume various chemicals that have somehow leached from the container to its contents.

NEW! We have brought in a number of food grade stainless steel water bottles as a safer alternative to various sort of plastic bottles. These are selling quickly and we will be ordering more.

TIP For transporting large quantities of water, we feel that the ultimate water container is actually glass! Pat and I use three 1 gallon water containers to transport water from the store to home. We can get these glass jugs fairly quickly. Just give us a call and we’ll order in as many as you like.