by Fern Shaw | Jun 4, 2018 | aquaid, Water, Water Coolers
I’ve been reading through my notes for the blogs for this week and it all became a little overwhelming. So I let my brain head out West and the rest of me went to top up on the java.
Then my brain knocked politely, ‘Coo-ee, I’m back’ it warbled.
‘What?’ the coffee-enjoying-rest of me replied. ‘You come up with anything useful out West?’
A lengthy discussion ensued ….
Anyhow, as it turns out, the brain told me it got to thinking about all the other lesser (according to it) but just as vital (according to all of them) organs that we humanoids are blessed with and guess what? ALL OF THEM need sufficient water to keep the g-g-greased lightning performance.
Kidney and Liver Function
One of the liver’s primary functions is to metabolise stored fat into energy. The kidneys are responsible for filtering toxins, wastes, ingested water and salts out of the bloodstream. If you are dehydrated, the kidneys cannot function properly and the liver must work overtime to compensate. As a result, it metabolises less fat, your metabolism slows down to conserve water, which leads to weight gain and can contribute to belly fat.*
The Heart
Dehydration can cause insufficient oxygenation of the tissue of the cardiovascular system. The heart rate increases in response to the tissue oxygen deficit. Tachycardia, or a heart rate greater than 100 beats per minute, occurs. Severe dehydration can trigger irregular heart rhythms, especially in people with an underlying heart condition.*
Command Central i.e. The Brain
Brain cells require the right amount of water and minerals in each of the cells. If there is too much water, the cell’s membrane can break; if there is not enough, the cell will shrivel up. When there is brain dehydration, less water is available for brain cells to use. *
Importance of Water
Almost two-thirds of the human body is made up of water and water acts as a natural appetite suppressant. It also helps to regulate your metabolism. When you become dehydrated, your metabolism slows down, affecting how your body burns fat. Your body mistakes thirst for hunger, which leads to increased calorie consumption. This can lead to stubborn fat gathering around your stomach, which is difficult to lose.*
Bearing all of this in mind, also remember that water weight is not the same as ‘blob’ weight, so whereas you may think that because your body is retaining water it means you’re gaining weight, this is not the case. Your body is desperately trying to tell you, by retaining water, that it doesn’t have enough to function properly.
There’s no need for concern though, indeed you can celebrate and revel in the fact that throughout the UK, clean, fresh drinking water transported from source to your office, school or site is readily available from AquAid through our range of water coolers. Drink up!
* sourced from an article at Livestrong
by Fern Shaw | Jun 4, 2018 | Water, water cooler, Water Coolers
… Rain (blizzards, snow, and sub-zero temperatures) or shine (weak lemony coloured sun that wouldn’t tan a meringue) you begin to notice that your staff is a tad dispirited, if not outrightly unproductive. No spring in their step, no whistle in their walk.
So, at great cost, you institute an Independent Board of Enquiry to establish the cause of this general malaise that’s affecting everyone from Mrs Tibbins, usually the whizz bang accountant, through to Mr Oogle, usually the zoomiest bike messenger ever (but sadly not for the past few months.)
While all of this is in motion, the meeker than the proverbial mouse IT person, Tad, squeaks up.
‘We’ve no water in the water coolers’, says Tad, ‘so everybody’s most likely dehydrated’.
‘What?’ splutters HOD Mrs Furthingstoke, ‘what does that have to do with everyone not performing at their peak? Pure poppycock, I’m sure!’
‘Incorrect’, corrects Tad, ‘not drinking water regularly is one of the leading causes of many illnesses, especially fatigue’.
As it turns out, Tad was proven correct. The Board of Enquiry was dismissed, the water coolers were kept replenished, productivity soared and absenteeism dropped rapidly.
Take it from Tad, dehydration can happen sooner than one thinks. Some early warning signs are:
- Light-headedness, dizziness;
- Tiredness, irritability, headache;
- Dry mouth, throat and eyes;
- Sunken features (particularly the eyes), flushed skin and skin that is loose and lacks elasticity;
- Heat intolerance;
- There may be a burning sensation in the stomach, urine output will be reduced and may appear darker than usual.
So, in the interests of having a healthy, happy, productive work environment, take the simplest route – ensure that there is always fresh, clean drinking water from source available in the workplace.
How to ensure that your cool drinking water is kept replenished? Speak to us at AquAid Water Coolers. We have over 20 years’ experience in the provision of the right water cooler for your space, required capacity and all your drinking water requirements.
by Belinda Ollewagen | Mar 28, 2018 | aquaid, Hot Water Taps, instant tap, Water Coolers
Want to know how your business can save 119 hours and £1,638 in wasted productivity every year?
Read on …
How many cups of tea or coffee do we drink at work?
- There are 65,64 million people in the UK
- Each day 165 million cups of tea and 70 million cups of coffee are consumed – that’s an average of 4 cups per person per day
- Let’s assume the average person (Jane/Joe) drinks one cup at home and three cups at the office
- Let’s also assume that Jane/Joe is working in a micro-sized business of 9 employees and that when they make tea or coffee for themselves, they also do so for another 2 employees in the office
How much time do we waste waiting for a kettle to boil?
- It takes 3 minutes for a kettle to boil – that’s 3 minutes Jane/Joe wastes every day waiting for hot water for the three cups of tea or coffee they’re wanting to make, assuming Jane/Joe and the two colleagues take it in turn to make drinks
- If we work an average of 22 days per month – that’s 66 minutes wasted in the month and 792 minutes or just over 13 hours wasted per year
- If the average working day is 8 hours long, it means we waste more than 1.5 working days per year waiting for that kettle
- And that’s just for one Jane or Joe
Want to add a monetary value to that time wasted?
- The average wage in the UK is £13.94 per hour – that’s 23 pence per minute, without employers NI contributions of around 13 percent
- If Jane/Joe wastes 792 minutes per year waiting for water to boil it equates to £182 lost in productivity
- Again, just for one Jane or Joe
Want to know how much that actually impacts on you as a business owner?
- There are 5.7 million small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the UK, which makes up 99% of all businesses
- SMEs can be broken down into micro business owners (the vast majority of SMEs) who employ 0-9 employees; small business owners who employ up to 49 employees; and medium business owners who employ up to 249 employees
- If you are a micro business owner:
That’s a £1,638 and 119 hours (or 15 working days) loss in productivity per annum waiting for a kettle to boil
- If you are a small business owner:
That’s a £8,918 and 647 hours (or 81 working days) loss in productivity per annum waiting for a kettle to boil
- If you are a medium business owner:
That’s a £45,318 and 3,287 hours (or 411 working days) loss in productivity per annum waiting for a kettle to boil
Hot water taps provide instantly ready boiling water, no wasted time waiting for a kettle to boil – can your business afford to be without one?
Sources:
Business Wire Research & Markets
Statista
House of Commons Library
by Fern Shaw | Jan 31, 2018 | aquaid surrey, water cooler, Water Coolers
Our AquAid Surrey began operating in 1998 and is owned by Richard Hopkins. Based in Chessington, Richard and his team supply an extensive range of innovative and high quality water coolers and dispensers to a broad range of customers in offices, medical centres, colleges and schools in and around the Surrey area. Committed to meeting AquAid’s exacting customer service standards, they pride themselves on the superior service they provide to over 4,000 customers.
Areas Covered: Chelsea, Chertsey, Chessington, Clapham, Croydon, Fulham, Godalming, Guildford, Hammersmith, Heathrow, Kensington, Kingston, New Malden, Putney, Sutton, Teddington, Twickenham, Wandsworth, Wimbledon, Woking.
AquAid Surrey is located at: Unit 8, Chessington Trade Park, 60 Cox Lane, Surrey, KT9 1TW
Surrey is one of the most fascinating counties of England as these snippets will attest to:
- Originally an area attached to the Kingdom of the Middle Saxons (Middlesex), the name Surrey itself derives from ‘the southern region’.*
- The three most popular street names in Surrey are High Street, Church Road and Station Road.*
- Guildford is named after a ford of golden sand just south of the town – it was dredged in 1760 when the river was deepened to make it navigable for barges up as far as Godalming.*
- The name Godalming itself, meanwhile, comes from the area belonging to ‘Godhelm’s people’. This Godhelm was, according to local legend, a fierce and bloodthirsty English pagan warrior.*
- Such was its fame apparently, slips from the Weeping Willow planted by Alexander Pope in his garden at Twickenham were sent to the Empress Catherine of Russia.*
- In HG Wells’ The War of the Worlds, the sixth Martian invasion cylinder landed in Wimbledon.*
Whether you’re based in Chelsea, Heathrow or Putney, AquAid Surrey are more than equipped to meet all of your water cooler and water related product requirements. Contact one of their friendly team today.
*sources: Surrey Life; Information Britain; Express
by Fern Shaw | Jan 31, 2018 | aquaid belfast, water cooler, Water Coolers
AquAid Belfast has represented AquAid Northern Ireland for the past 18 years. The branch opened its doors in 2000 and is owned by Paul Henderson. Based in Boucher Place, Paul and his team supply a wide range of high quality water coolers and dispensers to customers in offices, work sites, medical centres, colleges and schools in and around Belfast.
Committed to meeting AquAid’s exacting customer service standards, they pride themselves on the superior service they provide to over 500 customers.
Areas Covered: Antrim, Ballyclare, Ballygowan, Ballymena, Ballynahinch, Banbridge, Bangor, Belfast, Carryduff, Comber, Crawfordsburn, Downpatrick, Dromore, Hillsborough, Holywood, Larne, Lisburn, Newtownabbey, Newtownards, Portadown, Portglenone.
AquAid Belfast is located at: 6 Windsor Bus Park, Boucher Place, Belfast.
Belfast is city filled to the brim with a fascinating history, culture and unusual facts, such as:
- In 1965, Professor James Francis Pantridge and Dr John Geddis, both working at the Royal Victoria Hospital, modified the hospital’s defibrillator using two car batteries to create the world’s first portable defibrillator. His invention, stationed in various locations, has saved thousands of lives throughout the world.*
- The writer Clive Staples Lewis – known the world over as CS Lewis – is from east Belfast. Considered one of the intellectual giants of the 20th century, he wrote more than 30 books, including the universally acknowledged classics ‘The Chronicles of Narnia’. To date, the Narnia books have sold more than 100 million copies and have been turned into three major motion pictures.*
- The Strand on the Holywood Road is the only remaining fully-functioning Art Deco cinema in Ireland.*
- A series of hills flank the north-western side of Belfast, including Divis Mountain, Black Mountain and Cavehill. Cavehill is believed to have inspired author Jonathan Swift’s sleeping giant in his Gulliver’s Travels novel. When Swift resided at Lilliput Cottage near the bottom of Belfast’s Limestone Road, he imagined that the Cavehill resembled the shape of a sleeping giant safeguarding the city.*
Whether you’re based in Ballyclare, Holywood or Portglenone or any one of the other 18 locales AquAid Belfast services – the branch is more than equipped to meet all of your water cooler and water related product requirements.
Contact one of their friendly team today.
*sources: Belfast Telegraph; Travelling with the Jones
