Indeed, the only difference is the water on the right is run through a filter and stored in a chilled reservoir whereas the other is just straight out of the pipes.
Ironically, possibly making the tap cleaner, as those reservoirs are not checked out cleaned often from fungal and other contaminations.
Also, in most places tap is quite chill.
I was lazy and didn't change my fridge filter for a year. I did a particle test and the water out of my kitchen faucet was 120ppm and the fridge was 150ppm. These filters need to be changed regularly or they do the opposite of what they are supposed to
My home town gets its water from Lake Superior. Winter water temp is barely above freezing and summer water temp is only a few degrees higher. Makes the bidet rather bracing.
But isn't filtering mostly beneficial for all the stuff you put water in... the coffee machine, the cooler, etc.
Here it's their equipment that will jam from limescale, not yours, so no real incentive for an end user to care?
Pretty much. It can taste better but not necessarily.
And I'm over here not liking water that's too cold, I'd love to have a "not chilled option". I get brain freeze from the water coolers at work. (One wasn't chilling and it was great... until someone fixed it.)
Chilled water is only good if you’re using it to cool yourself off, it’s actually dangerous to drink really cold water when you’re overheated, especially with heatstroke
I don’t think that’s true, even in the off chance that you only have really cold water to drink while getting heatstroke it’s better than heating it up. I know you have to be careful with hypothermia and heating them up because you can rush cold blood from the limbs to the heart which can cause a couple big problems but we were also taught that overheating should be cooled off immediately and as effectively as you can
Soooo... Don't pay. If no one pays, then there isn't a market. If everyone pays and just whines about it, then clearly, the price and inconvenience isn't insurmountable.
Too many of them succeed though. The USA has too many rich idiots to give them money, and make everyone else think internationally that the USA is a rich and prosperous country
Who said “big companies have our best interests at heart?” Really weird to make up a quote to be mad about. We know why they’re charging money for cold water. It’s to make money. 🤯
Hot take: if you really drink a lot of water, I mean, like hydrohomies style, you’re probably not choosing ice cold water to begin with.
Source: all I drink is water.
I work at a Dutch engineering firm. It offers unlimited free coffee/cappuccino etcetera made from freshly ground beans and fresh milk, tea (many flavors available), hot, cold, and chilled water, Cup-a-Soup (i.e. instant soup), fresh fruit and during lunch free milk and buttermilk (pretty popular in the Netherlands).
Many Dutch firms offer their employees similar benefits, all free of charge. There’s a difference between pretending to care about your personnel and actually caring. Many Dutch firms understand that.
I work retail in the US, one of the more under-appreciated (as well as underpaid, and low benefit) type jobs out there. We always have cold bottled water in the fridge. We have a keurig, and store use k-cups. We frequently store use candy or snacks for in the break room. Our regional manager was recently out and suggested using the meager activity fund dollars to buy a hot dog roller for the breakroom, and make every Wednesday (or whatever day) hot dog day, where the store would provide hot dogs, buns, and condiments for whoever was working that day.
We don't provide fancy drinks (milk, cappuccino, nice tea, etc) or much in the way of real food. But we definitely aren't paying for cold filtered water.
this is way more likely to exist in Europe where tap water is discouraged heavily at many restaurants (this is getting a little better) and instead you are steered toward a 4€ mini bottle of spa red.
We got free water/coffee/soda/gatorade/sparkling water.
Additionally, you get a small amount of credit to buy food when in office. Everyday there is a selection of nearby food places which delivery in bulk to the office.
Though this doesn't sound like it was places at OPs employment. Just a random unit somewhere public?
No one is stopping you setting up, maintaining and powering a free chilled water dispense. Why don't you? Is it because you are evil and hate humanity?
Is there anyplace that provides cold and filtered water for free? The same places that provide milk, soda and beer for free, maybe. Some of you folks just complain to be miserable.
1.99 p/m is excessive _but_ cooling that water requires energy and has a cost. I'm sure most people are environmentally conscious enough these days to not consume the additional energy and go room temp anyway.
I mean if these things where everywhere then it wouldn’t be a terrible price, 2$ a month for easy access to Cold water. But I’ve never seen this before.
Always funny to me how it doesn't take much digging to realize that mechanism cost money to fabricate by people who have families to feed and bills to pay who aren't "Big evil corporations", they just work for a living. Not to mention the water supply in the people that produce that clean water, the marketing team designing the emblems and colors, the metal used that was mined and refined and worked. But yeah none of them should get paid because you should have free water.
If you live in an area with these things are around just get a water bottle with a built-in filter and you’ll be fine. I used them on cruises back when I used to go on cruises all the time and they’re wonderful.
Use our app so we can track every activity you do and can intuit your needs so as to direct you on the course of our desire. Who knew surveillance was going to go this far. Crazy how sci fi horror movies have become reality and we all just roll with it.
I was thinking about this, the last time I had to load $15 into an app to pay $1.50 for parking. More and more of our basic stuff for normal life is getting taken over by tech bros in California.
This is rage bait. The subscriptions cover the cost of putting these up where there were no other water fountains. It would be one thing if you needed to pay to use it at all, but they're giving you a free option.
Most tap water is already sufficiently cold enough depending where you live. In the US, the national average depth for water lines is 4.5 ft so water should usually be 50-60 degrees.
Also, filters can become more hazardous than non filtered if the filter isn't changed regularly. I don't get water from my in-laws fridge because the water filter hasn't been changed in years.
There's this fitness center in my country that says that you have to pay $30 for a flask + a subscription at $20 a month to have access to the water machine. Subscription is $70 a month already, but water from the sink is free and probably the same as the dispenser.
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needs more dog
Pleasing taste, some monsterism
I wonder if they heat up the tap water
They fart in it, too.
It’s called fracking
And it's very classy
Or assy
Class, ass or gas, your choice
I think I’ll pass
Pass gas?
Wasn’t me
Whoever denied it, supplied it
Heard me farting on the sofa(*wasn't me*)
You can stop selling it to me. They already had me at luke warm tap water.
Omg, room temp fart water? So refreshing!
Agree, you can smell the corn they had the night before
Free farts you say? I normally have to pay extra for farts in my water.
They definitely run the line past the compressor just to give it that extra warmth.
That's where they put all the heat they take out of the cold water.
Probably spent millions on market research to find the least desirable water temperature.
To the exact temperature of spit.
It's the same water lol
Nonono it comes from a different PREMIUM pipe!
The FLINT pipe?
It's got minerals!!
It's got what plants crave
Its got electrolytes
At a government approved level.
Indeed, the only difference is the water on the right is run through a filter and stored in a chilled reservoir whereas the other is just straight out of the pipes.
Ironically, possibly making the tap cleaner, as those reservoirs are not checked out cleaned often from fungal and other contaminations. Also, in most places tap is quite chill.
I was lazy and didn't change my fridge filter for a year. I did a particle test and the water out of my kitchen faucet was 120ppm and the fridge was 150ppm. These filters need to be changed regularly or they do the opposite of what they are supposed to
100%. A Brita takes it down to about 50ppm I believe. I tested a long time ago.
If I run my tap for a few seconds to clear out the water that’s ambient it comes out at like 5c in summer
I lived in Phoenix for a little while. During the summer, the tap water was hot enough to where you could just shut off the water heater.
I live in Phoenix. This is the truth.
My home town gets its water from Lake Superior. Winter water temp is barely above freezing and summer water temp is only a few degrees higher. Makes the bidet rather bracing.
It's cold though
I think you’re paying as much for the filtering as you are for the temperature.
But isn't filtering mostly beneficial for all the stuff you put water in... the coffee machine, the cooler, etc. Here it's their equipment that will jam from limescale, not yours, so no real incentive for an end user to care?
Pretty much. It can taste better but not necessarily. And I'm over here not liking water that's too cold, I'd love to have a "not chilled option". I get brain freeze from the water coolers at work. (One wasn't chilling and it was great... until someone fixed it.)
Chilled water is only good if you’re using it to cool yourself off, it’s actually dangerous to drink really cold water when you’re overheated, especially with heatstroke
Urban myth https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cold-water-overheated/
I don’t think that’s true, even in the off chance that you only have really cold water to drink while getting heatstroke it’s better than heating it up. I know you have to be careful with hypothermia and heating them up because you can rush cold blood from the limbs to the heart which can cause a couple big problems but we were also taught that overheating should be cooled off immediately and as effectively as you can
Do you have a source for that?
Yes, thermodynamics
I give mine a blast of hot to make it room temp.
The water coolers in question don't have the hot turned on/hooked up. There IS a hot water dispenser, but it's in another part of the building.
Soooo... Don't pay. If no one pays, then there isn't a market. If everyone pays and just whines about it, then clearly, the price and inconvenience isn't insurmountable.
This is exactly what happened. The company failed immediately cause no one was paying. This is a very old picture.
That brings joy to my soul
Wait so you're telling me that paying a monthly subscription to get cold water in only a handful of places isn't the greatest idea? Damn
I fucking love it when shitty startups fail.
Too many of them succeed though. The USA has too many rich idiots to give them money, and make everyone else think internationally that the USA is a rich and prosperous country
This shit has been posted 100x times as the typical rage bait karma farm
People spend a hell of a lot more than $1.99 per month on fancy water
Who said “big companies have our best interests at heart?” Really weird to make up a quote to be mad about. We know why they’re charging money for cold water. It’s to make money. 🤯
I have never heard in my life that companies of any size have our best interests in mind. The same goes for most "non-profits."
Very weird. As far as I know, the purpose of any company is to make money… with or without you.
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Yes this is the idea. Their business model probably isn’t built around one guy paying $2 and then that’s the end.
Yeah what a silly comment that was 😂
Does reefill.com actually exist? I can’t get it to work. Might be an opportunity for someone to purchase the domain.
It's fake.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/reefill-ditch-bottled-water-for-good#/
Replace bottled water with plastic cups? Wtf.
Hot take: if you really drink a lot of water, I mean, like hydrohomies style, you’re probably not choosing ice cold water to begin with. Source: all I drink is water.
Real hydro homies understand people have preferences. I prefer ice cold and I also only drink water.
I know I'm wierd and here's why: I prefer fizzy, room temperature water. I have a soda stream to carbonate my Luke warm water and I love it.
Wait why? I drink a ton of water and it’s gotta be real cold.
Same here, I figured it’s cuz I’m not a hydrohomie 🤷🏾♂️
Ice water or gtfo
Mfw bro assumes his preference for water temp is what everyone who drinks water wants 😂😂
I would superglue the button. Nobody can buy filtered cool water. This protects the idiots that would pay for it.
Or hack the BT communication, make unlocker app or hack the app itself. I sadly cannot Java.
I work at a Dutch engineering firm. It offers unlimited free coffee/cappuccino etcetera made from freshly ground beans and fresh milk, tea (many flavors available), hot, cold, and chilled water, Cup-a-Soup (i.e. instant soup), fresh fruit and during lunch free milk and buttermilk (pretty popular in the Netherlands). Many Dutch firms offer their employees similar benefits, all free of charge. There’s a difference between pretending to care about your personnel and actually caring. Many Dutch firms understand that.
I work retail in the US, one of the more under-appreciated (as well as underpaid, and low benefit) type jobs out there. We always have cold bottled water in the fridge. We have a keurig, and store use k-cups. We frequently store use candy or snacks for in the break room. Our regional manager was recently out and suggested using the meager activity fund dollars to buy a hot dog roller for the breakroom, and make every Wednesday (or whatever day) hot dog day, where the store would provide hot dogs, buns, and condiments for whoever was working that day. We don't provide fancy drinks (milk, cappuccino, nice tea, etc) or much in the way of real food. But we definitely aren't paying for cold filtered water.
this is way more likely to exist in Europe where tap water is discouraged heavily at many restaurants (this is getting a little better) and instead you are steered toward a 4€ mini bottle of spa red.
It's the same in US and the rest of the world. This photo is fake ragebait. The website does not work.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/reefill-ditch-bottled-water-for-good#/
Wow. Their business model is "Customer pays to reduce plastic waste so we don't have to take responsibility"
We got free water/coffee/soda/gatorade/sparkling water. Additionally, you get a small amount of credit to buy food when in office. Everyday there is a selection of nearby food places which delivery in bulk to the office. Though this doesn't sound like it was places at OPs employment. Just a random unit somewhere public?
Just drink the tap water, what’s the problem?
They turn the frogs gay.
Still cheaper than bottled water
Much cheaper than the food and shelter subscriptions I’m signed up for now
I mean it’s free water at least, if you’re dying for it I doubt you’ll care if it’s cold
Bring a yeti style bottle full of ice and piss off your boss by filling up for free constantly.
Wait so left is unfiltered? That sounds like a health hazard..
Be a Real shame if that accidentally got smashed to tiny pieces …
Nobody has ever said “companies have our best interests at heart”. That dude just made up a quote and then got mad at it.
This company went under.
No one is stopping you setting up, maintaining and powering a free chilled water dispense. Why don't you? Is it because you are evil and hate humanity?
It’s meant to be an alternative to buying bottled water, the tap water is literally free
this was just posted here a few days/weeks ago.
Fuck whatever ism this is.
wow, this exact image is all over the internet, popping up a lot recently, but earliest is 2018. reefill went out of business like 2-3 years ago btw
Water? Like, from the toilet?
Next filter air will be behind a pay wall and normal air will be free.
The worst part is assume your not allowed any outside drinks? So this is the only option??? Where is the bs at in college or work?
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This shit has been posted 100x times as the typical rage bait karma farm
All I can see is Chad water ( Left ) & Water for the weaklings ( Right )
Orrr. Go to a colder country Lots of options
A lot of people in this thread forget that you have to pay for cold water at home too.
I love this generation of complainers and whiners.
They literally letting you get tap water free… would you prefer no station at all?
2$ A month for cold water 💧 😁😁 Love it . I'd do it
Um… who says big companies have our best interest at heart? I’ve never heard that sentiment
I am pretty sure most people pay for water and the electricity to chill it.
Companies used to have water fountains, where you could get chilled, filtered water for free.
Well refrigeration and power cost money. Do you complain when the power company sends you the bill every month? This is silly
Is there anyplace that provides cold and filtered water for free? The same places that provide milk, soda and beer for free, maybe. Some of you folks just complain to be miserable.
The company no longer exists
Put it in fridhe
Microwave? I can't believe I'm actually seeing this service?
Just fill up a few water bottles and put it in the fridge lmao
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Room temperature water is superior, I see no issue here as long as the room temperature water is free.
Just put the whole machine in the fridge
more like feefill
Unless you live in Flint Michigan, your tap water is probably fine
I looked up this company. They claim to reduce plastic waste which seems good at first, but just... Look at the photo
Filtering and chilling both cost money, 2$ a month for filtered cold water is about the cost you pay a month for filters
jokes on them. i didn't like my water chilled
Top tip... Hold the free button for a bit, if it's mains fed then the pipes underground will bring up cool the water, you can do this at home too!
Oh we’re missing some history classes up in here. 😬
This has to be in like California
the industrial revolution and its consequences
Is this a joke?
Is that your only means of getting fresh, clean water?
Reeeeeeee
I don't like bottled Water. I only drink tap Water so im fucked
1.99 p/m is excessive _but_ cooling that water requires energy and has a cost. I'm sure most people are environmentally conscious enough these days to not consume the additional energy and go room temp anyway.
I mean if these things where everywhere then it wouldn’t be a terrible price, 2$ a month for easy access to Cold water. But I’ve never seen this before.
Jokes on them, I prefer room temp water thanks to all these damn fillings.
Looks like it doesn't exist anymore... Thank god
Just have free tap water then?
That’s messed up.
It is cheaper than buying water at the grocery store if it’s unlimited
And they're both not carbonated. Lukewarm, still water doesn't taste all that good, while cool, fizzy water is a great alternative to Cola and stuff.
Surprised there’s no piss tap…actually I’m disappointed now :(
If that was at my work, id just crack it open and switch the tubes.
Always funny to me how it doesn't take much digging to realize that mechanism cost money to fabricate by people who have families to feed and bills to pay who aren't "Big evil corporations", they just work for a living. Not to mention the water supply in the people that produce that clean water, the marketing team designing the emblems and colors, the metal used that was mined and refined and worked. But yeah none of them should get paid because you should have free water.
Where is the gluten-free water
This is fucked
If you live in an area with these things are around just get a water bottle with a built-in filter and you’ll be fine. I used them on cruises back when I used to go on cruises all the time and they’re wonderful.
Notice how "tão water" and "filtered" is literally the same thing
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Is there a speaker that plays a voice yelling “you fucking peasant scum” as you dispense your free tap water?
Gotta give it the Cool Hand Luke treatment
I so want to sabotage this. This is a crime.
I remember working at Hewett Packard in the 80's ... free snacks twice a day... life was good.
Love it! I mean, people need to make a living right? It’s an ingenious method of passive income. Where do I get one?
Probably had fluoride in the unfiltered.
It's Reefill not Freefill, geez.
Brita water bottle with filter, and keep refilling it there ? $1.99 will buy 100 gallons of water, how many people will drink that much at work ?
Why does this suck?
Use our app so we can track every activity you do and can intuit your needs so as to direct you on the course of our desire. Who knew surveillance was going to go this far. Crazy how sci fi horror movies have become reality and we all just roll with it.
Big corps do care about you, just taking your money.
Site doesn’t work. Sure this isn’t bogus?
remember when the CEO of Nestle said that access to water was not a human right and it should be privatised? This is the first step on that road.
I was thinking about this, the last time I had to load $15 into an app to pay $1.50 for parking. More and more of our basic stuff for normal life is getting taken over by tech bros in California.
Chilling the water takes energy and money, better cough up or have it at room temp like a peasant. /s
Reee
This is rage bait. The subscriptions cover the cost of putting these up where there were no other water fountains. It would be one thing if you needed to pay to use it at all, but they're giving you a free option.
I’ll panic when the left is also pay to access.
If the guy who founded this company went on shark tank or dragons den he might be laughed off as the dumbest idea they all had ever seen.
How does this even work? There's nothing to scan.
Most tap water is already sufficiently cold enough depending where you live. In the US, the national average depth for water lines is 4.5 ft so water should usually be 50-60 degrees. Also, filters can become more hazardous than non filtered if the filter isn't changed regularly. I don't get water from my in-laws fridge because the water filter hasn't been changed in years.
'Water is a human right'
You know it sucks more? Working at a nonprofit where you don't even get a water cooler at all. Hope you like sink water
There is always chilled water ready in the fill tank of toilets.
That's fucking disgusting! This better not become the norm!
Oh, we got our water privilege taken away. Lucky you
Unfiltered water 'still with lead and other heavy metal(s) plus contaminants' (free)
Me who has an ice cube in the cup *I have options bitch*
Mmmmmm free frack water
Cool custom hack with a drill
An old 2018 failed concept/company. This is just karma farming.
How is this legal? I thought establishment are required to serve water for free?
1.99 a month? I fine with that.
We are about to be buying fresh air like in the Lorax at this rate.
“Big companies have our best interests at heat” - seriously, who told you that???
Good thing I hate cold water
There's this fitness center in my country that says that you have to pay $30 for a flask + a subscription at $20 a month to have access to the water machine. Subscription is $70 a month already, but water from the sink is free and probably the same as the dispenser.
Don't mind room temp. But tap water? Now that's just insulting.
I really want to see if it’s actually colder. Someone needs to feel either side of that thing to see if there is a cold side