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Culligan Quench bottleless water coolers.

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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Columbus water quality: then

The Borough of Columbus (and future Ohio state capital) was established in 1816 along the shores of the Scioto and Olentangy Rivers. The confluence of these two water sources, just north of downtown, played a vital role in the region’s water access and management that continues to this day. The city of Columbus has always stood at the forefront of water treatment and management. City planners first dammed the Scioto River in 1908 with the construction of the Griggs Reservoir, and later with the O’Shaughnessy Dam in 1925. Once hailed the “best inland city reservoir and dam in the United States,” the O’Shaughnessy stored enough water to serve double the city population at the time.

After a series of typhoid outbreaks, scientists and engineers combined forces to design a water system that changed the world. Known as “The Columbus Experiment”, treatment facilities drastically improved Columbus water quality by virtually eliminating water-borne illnesses like typhoid and cholera that had plagued the city for decades. Post-World War II, the population was booming, and city planners sprang into action to meet demands of new residents; The Hoover Reservoir became the city’s largest dam structure, at 90 feet high and 83 feet wide at the base. Completed on the Big Walnut Creek in 1955, it took  5 days to fill with water.

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.