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Take on-demand hydration to the next level. Culligan Quench bottleless water coolers and ice machines use advanced filtration and sanitization technologies such as carbon filtration and reverse osmosis to remove sediment, reduce lead and other chemical contaminants, and get rid of off-tastes and odors. By providing filtered water through a broad array of machines, our bottleless water coolers offer users countless consumption choices.

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Boston water quality: then

The history of Boston is filled with the constant struggle to provide enough quality water to a continuously growing population. The story begins in 1623 when Reverend William Blackstone became the first settler to drink Boston water from “The Great Spring” on the Shawmut Peninsula.

The Great Spring provided Boston drinking water for over 2 centuries. In the 1800s, the city population ballooned, and residents had to look beyond The Great Spring. City planners began to pull Boston tap water from the Jamaica Pond using wooden pipes, which offered minimal pressure and would eventually rot, leak, and split. By the 1830s, Boston grew even more, and so too did the demand for water. Urban developers turned to an upland source of water that did not require filtration, and in the 1840s, they created the Lake Cochituate Reservoir from Long Pond.

Within two decades, Lake Cochituate had difficulties supplying enough water, especially during the summer, and the Boston water quality did not meet safety standards by 1980. The resulting Metropolitan Water Act of 1895 called for a new water source from the Wachusett Dam at the Nashua River. The city went on to build the Quabbin Reservoir at the Swift River. At its completion in 1946, the 412-billion-gallon reservoir represented the largest man-made reservoir in the world devoted solely to water supply.

Culligan Quench water coolers.

Worried about contaminants in your drinking water? We offer a full complement of water filtration and sanitization technologies to remove sediment, reduce chemical contaminants, including lead, and get rid of off-tastes and odors. Depending on your local water quality, your Water Expert may recommend our NSF-certified carbon filtration, which works great for water with TDS (total dissolved solids) levels under 250 ppm (parts per million) or our NSF-certified reverse osmosis (RO) filtration, which is the standard for water with TDS levels over 250ppm.