Watery Facts

Drink to Your Health...With Healthy Drinking Water!

Some nutritionists insist that 80% of the population are walking around dehydrated. We drink too much coffee, tea, and soft drinks containing caffeine, which prompts the body to lose water. More troubling is that fact that when we are dehydrated, we don't know what to drink.

The answer is simple: drink more water! Water is pure liquid refreshment and can account for a large percentage of what makes each of us "human". The average 150 lb. adult body contains 40 to 50 quarts of water.

Almost 2/3rds of our body weight is "water weight":

Blood is 83% water
Muscles are 75% water
The brain is 74% water
Bone is 22% water

The Fountain of Youth and Health

Water is necessary for your body to digest and absorb vitamins and nutrients. It also detoxifies the liver and kidneys, and carries away waste from the body. And when it comes to digestion . . . it's just not happening without water. Fibre alone cannot aid proper digestive function by itself. In fact, without water as its partner, good fibre goes bad, causing constipation and extreme discomfort.

If you're dehydrated, your blood is literally thicker, and your body has to work much harder to cause it to circulate. As a result, the brain becomes less active, it's harder to concentrate, your body feels fatigued, and you just feel exhausted.

Water - The Miracle Worker

High quality water -- when it's pure and free of contaminants -- is truly a "wonder drug." Without chemicals, additives, or anything unnatural, a steady dose of 8 glasses of water a day (ideally half your body weight in ounces of water) will:

Improve Your Energy
Increase Your Mental and Physical Performance
Remove Toxins & Waste Products from your body
Keep Skin Healthy and Glowing
Help You Lose Weight
Reduce Headaches and Dizziness
Allow for proper Digestion
Help to keep you more Alkaline

Other drinks, such as tea, coffee and fruit juice, can count towards your daily intake but these are often high in caffeine and sugar and should not make up the majority of your daily fluid intake.

Drinking Water and Weight Loss

Water is a natural appetite suppressant, so developing a good water drinking habit can be a long-term aid in achieving and maintaining a healthy weight.

It's also important to remember that when the body is dehydrated, fat cells get "rubbery" and cannot be easily metabolized. This means that it's harder to lose when you don't drink your water.

Who Can Benefit From A Water Regime? Everyone!

Water is especially important for pregnant women and nursing mothers. For athletes and work-out fanatics, drinking water reduces cardiovascular stress and improves performance. And, since water reduces body temperature, it makes the whole exercise process safer and more effective.

Water is also an important "healing tool" for people with a history of kidney stones. Since water dissolves calcium in the urine, downing at least 8 glasses daily reduces the risk of stone formation. Drinking water is also valuable in preventing urinary tract infections in both men and for women, flushing impurities out of the system.

When your body is hydrated, drainage from allergies and colds doesn't stick and collect in your throat and lungs, and your cough is more "productive". Even cold sores that appear on the lips are minimized by drinking water because those eruptions tend to favour dry areas on the body.

Thirsty 4 Water's Tips for Drinking Water

We know how hard it can be to remember to drink enough water every day, but we also know how hard it can be to bounce back from the effects of being even mildly dehydrated. So our team would like to share a few easy tips to help you reach your "water mark" every day:

Improve Your Energy
You are naturally thirsty i.e. "dehydrated" in the morning - help your body flush out the toxins it has been processing all night and take advantage of this thirst to get a "head start" on your daily water requirements by drinking a glass of water as soon as you begin work
If you are cold drink warm water instead of dehydrating coffee & tea. Have a coffee later!
Don't wait until you're thirsty to have a drink - you are already dehydrated if you feel thirsty.
Compensate for diuretics (thieves that steal water from your body). If you drink coffee, tea, or soft drinks with caffeine, you'll need to drink a few extra glasses of water to make up for the water that these diuretic drinks "leech" from your system.

Further Information on Health through Water. Links to water websites related to health.

Caring 4 our Environment

We're sick of hearing people saying "It's not our problem" when it comes to saving the planet. But if we all do our bit we can at least slow it down, and all sleep a lot easier!

We aren't perfect, but we are trying to do the right thing. Once our bottles reach the end of their life, we give them a wonderful seeing off and drink to each and every one of them (any excuse for a party)! - they go straight to the recycling centre (we tell them bottle heaven - shhh!) to be made into more plasticy things!

Thirsty 4 Water collect, sterilise and reuse the bottles once you've finished with them so you don't have to worry about not doing your bit for the environment
We support Savacup - www.save-a-cup.co.uk
We offer 'Mains Fed' to eliminate environmental issues from delivery C02 emissions for water bottle deliveries.

To find your nearest recycling bank for plastic, paper, glass and lots of other things, go to this website and enter your postcode:

www.recycle-more.co.uk

Like we said, we're not perfect but we are pushing forward in this area more than any other company we know within our industry and we aim to get better and better at it. If you've got any ideas about how we can do this, then we'd love to hear from you! Get in touch at: hello@thirsty4water.co.uk.

Cooler Sanitation

Your health and safety is top of the list where we're concerned! All our customers get a visit from a 'H20 Technician' every quarter. Most other water cooler companies push their luck by leaving it every six months, but we like to make sure you are fully quenched and are still our friend. Unlike these other companies we don't charge for this service! Do restaurants charge diners for washing their cutlery before using it?

Madness!

Links to Water Industry Related Articles

Our Bottled Water

Thirsty Feeling?

If Mr Thirsty in your head is giving you a rough time then our chilled water is just the remedy to shut him up! 100% natural pure British countryside water, sourced from the furthest reaches of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland! We guarantee to make you go "Ahhhhhhhhhh" after every glass with total refreshment.

Pure British Countryside Water

Do you know the difference between tap water and water bottled at source? Our water supplies are rich in mineral content, particularly calcium and magnesium and free from any taste whatsoever, such as chlorine found in many of the UK's water supplies. Yuck! Glass of water from the local swimming pool anyone?

Mineral water has been filtered naturally through aquifers and is safe to drink from the source, with no need for any chemical cleaning.

Spring water is very similar. In order to be recognised as mineral water there needs to be 250 parts of dissolved solids per million that have come directly from the source and have not been added later. Because water acquires its mineral content from the geology of the aquifer it flows through there are a wide variety of mineral waters across the UK.

Our water comes bottled in 18.9L bottles (every week if needs be) and is easily attached to the dispensing units. The drinking water is chilled in a fridge reservoir inside the cooler waiting to be sent on its Thirst Quenching Mission straight down your throat.

What Package is best 4 me?

Drop us a line and we'll be able to advice you after asking some simple questions, or why don't you take a look at our Price Guide to pick what best suits you.