AZ WaterBlogged

ROCHESTER, NY — Expect continuing debate in the coming year over whether bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical component of polycarbonate plastic used to make water bottles and other products, has a negative impact on human health.

In a December 25 article carried by the Associated Press, writer Ben Dobbin notes that several retailers — Vancouver, British Columbia-based Mountain Equipment Co-op; Patagonia, based in Ventura, CA, a maker of outdoor products; and the Whole Foods Market chain — have made decisions reflecting their concerns about the substance.

Mountain Equipment Co-op, Canada’s largest consumer cooperative, has withdrawn polycarbonate bottles from shelves in its 11 stores while it waits for Canadian health regulators to finish a preliminary review of BPA in May. Patagonia removed polycarbonate water bottles from its 40 stores in 2005, and also in that year Whole Foods stopped selling polycarbonate baby bottles and children’s drinking cups.

Meanwhile, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the plastics and bottled water industries insist that the very small amount of BPA used in polycarbonate does not pose a health risk. In the bottled water industry, 3- and 5-gallon polycarbonate bottles that are returned, washed and refilled for cooler dispensing are viewed as environmentally responsible because they are recycled many times.

The Rochester area has a special interest in the debate, because one of the world’s largest makers of polycarbonate products, Nalge Nunc International, a division of Waltham, MA-based Thermo Fisher Scientific, employs about 900 at a suburban Rochester plant, the article said.

Recent efforts by states to regulate or ban BPA are inconclusive. For instance, California this year failed to act on an Assembly bill that would have banned various BPA-containing products, but the International Bottled Water Association and other industry advocates believe that proposal and similar ones in other states will return for consideration. The industry has formed a group, the Coalition for Consumer Choice (CCC), to oppose what it believes could be unreasonable and scientifically unsound regulation of BPA.

The CCC points to a 2007 report by a European Union panel of independent scientific experts who concluded that daily dietary exposure to BPA is well below any level that would cause risk to humans, including infants and children. It also says BPA has been used extensively and safely world-wide for more than 50 years.

Meanwhile, the AP article notes that an expert panel of US academic and government researchers told a National Institutes of Health conference in August “the potential for BPA to impact human health is a concern, and more research is clearly needed.” BPA is a hormone-mimicking chemical, the article said, and the panel cited evidence that Americans have higher levels of BPA than those found to cause harm in laboratory animals.

O Premium Waters Response...

In the past, O Premium Waters has used polycarbonate reusable bottles to deliver water to it's customers. However, over the last 3 years most of those bottles have been replaced by PET plastic bottles such as those used in small bottles purchased from the grocery store and PET has proven to have no scientific basis for health issues. While polycarbonate bottles may ulitmately prove to be safe after further FDA investigation O Premium Waters has committed to ending the use of those bottles for it's customers.

I must admit to being conflicted about current discussions regarding the quality of municipal tap water versus bottled water. It is a debate the bottled-water industry, by and large, has left to others; members of our industry would rather sell the positives of their product – great taste, portability of the product, and the overall health benefits of drinking lots of good, clean water.

But recently the bottled-water industry has come under particularly harsh criticism for alleged gross waste and pollution. Critics fault the use of clean water resources by private enterprise, the cost of packaging, and the energy it takes to transport bottled water to market. And there is some truth to their arguments; it takes substantial energy and natural resources to manufacture, bottle and distribute our product.

However on the conservation side, one of our trucks can service 1500 individual households versus 1500 individual households driving their personal vehicles to the store to purchase the water. Just this one service alone saves thousands of gallons of fuel and oil each month. I also really want to buy into the ideal, as voiced my many city’s Public Relations staffs, that municipal tap water is “just fine” for human consumption as it flows virtually free from the kitchen faucet. Wouldn’t it be great if all sources for municipal tap water were pristine, easy to purify, locally abundant, treated only with absolutely safe chemicals and subsequently transported at low cost through completely clean pipes?

THE REALITY IS THAT BOTTLED WATER IS TRULY BETTER

Emotions aside, the reality is that bottled water is truly a lot better for you than municipal tap water. And it is not at all true that bottled water entails more cost to society than the cost of creating and distributing municipal tap water equal in quality to the variety of bottled water offerings.

First, let’s look at the quality issue. A lot of the “fresh" water our local governments use as a source for tap water doesn’t start out all that healthy for humans. Some ground waters and surface waters have naturally occurring and abundant organic and inorganic contaminants. In the western United States, many source waters have issues with arsenic and radon. Although this isn’t the result of human pollution--it occurs naturally--it is still bad for humans. In the Great Plains, where the water table is subject to rapid recharge and there is a lot of agricultural activity, water tends to be high in phosphates (fertilizer) and atrazine (herbicide). In coastal areas of the United States, you will often find high sodium and/or sulfur in local water. Everywhere, you find additives to the source water from human activity (bacteria), the burning of fossil fuels (MBTE) and chemical manufacturing and consumption byproducts (this list is far too long to cite here but you owe it to yourself to check out the EPA’s website).

Our local governments try to make their local source waters suitable for us by treating the water with chemicals like chlorine, lime and sodium hexametaphosphate, and by the sheer volume of water, it is hidden through dilution. Yes, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)--through the Safe Drinking Water Act--says it is legal to serve a vast array of inorganic chemicals to tap water customers as long as they are below the maximum contaminants levels (or MCLs) they set by rule making. Any municipality having contaminants in their tap water below these levels can proudly say to their customers their tap water is just fine.

EPA SETS STANDARDS FOR ONLY 35 CONTAMINANTS

But is it really? The EPA sets the bar for this reassuring pronouncement by creating MCL standards for only 35 potential contaminants. The process that produces those MCLs entails years of review and a lot of input from industry lobbyists as well as everyday citizens. If you have concerns about any chemicals other than those 35 (and, if you pay attention to reports of recent medical research, you probably should have concerns) then you are out of luck; the local water works isn’t even testing for them at any contaminant level.
I can say with complete and utter assurance that consumers of bottled water do not have to deal with questionable source water, adding potentially harmful chemicals, or limited testing. We know consumers will punish us, stop purchasing our products if we don’t provide them with something far better than what comes from the tap. Our company uses municipal tap water as a source but cleans it with 10 highly sophisticated filtration processes before putting it in sterile, sealed bottles in a clean room environment. Obviously, we don’t have to send that water to the consumer through several series of aged piping either. Speaking of water pipes, the Federal Government’s latest report states the average age of the U.S. water piping infrastructure ranges between 50-100 years old. The reported “fix” will surpass $1 Trillion dollars. O Premium Waters bottles approximately 1.5-2 million gallons of Purified Water per month, most of which is PUT INTO 5 GALLON RE-USABLE BOTTLES THAT LAST FOR YEARS.

BOTTLED WATER IS REGUALTED BY THE EPA AND FOOD AND DRUG AMINISTRATION (FDA)

In addition to the standards of the EPA for our source water, we, along with the other bottled-water industry players are also subject to the standards of the FDA which regulates bottled water as a food product. The FDA has several quality standards for bottled water, in addition to the EPA standards, as well as container and labeling standards.
But even those governmental standards are clearly, by themselves, not enough to assure consumers they are getting a product which is “better” than tap water. OPW voluntarily test their finished product water hourly for total dissolved solids (TDS), daily microbial test for bacteria, and a weekly independent laboratory test as required by the FDA, enforced by the State of Arizona through the Maricopa County Health Department.

IN THE END IT IS NOT EVEN CLOSE BOTTLED WATER IS BETTER

In the end, this is not a close call. Our bottled water is a lot better than the minimally tested, chlorinated, flocculated, fluoridated municipal tap water that also happens to be transmitted through miles of aged piping. Remember, ultimately the Market votes with its checkbook and the results are in – bottled water has demonstrated double digit growth for well over a decade. But let’s pause. Even though I am making a strong statement about bottled versus tap water quality, I sincerely believe we are only talking about a minor sub-issue. The real overriding issues in this discussion--the elephants I see in the room--are: (1) our throw-away culture which wastes the vast majority of our food and beverage containers, and (2) the real wisdom of our government trying to make all tap water as good as bottled water when less than 1% of municipal tap water is actually used for human consumption.

As is the case with any beverage, bottled water requires the use of containers. But it is also true that those containers have clear benefits to consumers. They make beverages portable, sanitary, and safely preserved until it is time to use them. Bottled water is uniquely useful to our society when disaster strikes and the municipal tap water systems don’t function at all.

LET’S CHANGE THE DEBATE

It is unfortunately also true that consumers throw most of those containers in the trash instead of recycling them. If we as a society recycled all of our beverage containers - glass, plastic and metal - instead of throwing them away, what would be the benefit to our society? We would clearly avoid landfill costs, create jobs in the recycling industry, and avoid tapping virgin, natural resources for our reasonable container needs. Therefore, rather than waste time debating whether tap water is “just as good as bottled water”, we would be better served to avoid the negative effects of throwing the containers away when those containers are designed and made to be recovered and reused in a variety of ways. There are many ways to get that done. Container deposit laws have been enacted in a number of states. Almost 50% of municipalities now have some form of curbside recycling. Other countries, as well as certain states, have much higher recycling rates; we should be learning from the tools and incentives that already work elsewhere. Wouldn’t it be better for us to work as a society to recycle our consumer packaging instead of attacking one product after another because they utilize packaging consumers currently throw away? In the case of OPW’s total water production per month (1.5-2 million gallons), they use only about 10% of that product for one way sport bottles? That’s right, 90% of OPW’s water is delivered in reusable 5 gallon bottles that have a life cycle of approximately 5 years, and at the and at the end of that life, are recycled.

ESIO A NEW INNOVATION FROM O PREMIUM WATERS SAVES ENERGY AND OUR LANDFILLS

Esio is a new hot and cold beverage dispenser that looks like a water cooler and delivers not only hot and cold water but coffee, tea, juice, sport drinks and more on demand. The wonderful thing about the Esio system is that it can be used in your home or office and each 3 oz. extract filled pouch makes 14-18 servings. This revolutionary new eco-friendly packaging eliminates 20 individual plastic single serve bottles (one box) from ending up in our landfills. O Premium Waters is leading the industry in this area for more information on this system visit www.esiobev.com.

O PREMIUM WATERS TAKES FURTHER STEPS TO REDUCE ITS ENERGY AND PLASTIC USE IN THE MANUFACTURING OF ITS SPORT BOTTLES

Recently our company has reduced the plastic in our bottles from 23.5 grams to 17 grams and the size of our sport bottle caps from 28 mm to 26 mm all in the interest of using less energy and contributing less to our landfills. This has reduced the energy and plastic used by approximately 35% as we continue to find ways to lower our carbon footprint.

LET’S NOT ADD TONS AND TONS OF CHEMICALS TO OUR WATER SUPPLY

Municipal tap water, although relatively cheap to homes because it is subsidized by taxpayers and industry, is not without substantial cost. If we didn’t have to spend that estimated trillion dollars on aged water piping infrastructure, treatment plants, and chemicals, could we not better spend that money on other needs? The vast majority of tap water is actually used for industrial processes and other mundane purposes, such as washing cars and flushing toilets. Does it make sense indeed; is it even possible - for local governments to attempt to bring tap water up to the higher quality of bottled water? Maybe we could use the money saved by not treating water to impossibly high standards, but instead improve our natural water sources for uses other than drinking water. What about the real benefit of not adding tons and tons of chemicals like chlorine and chlorine byproducts to our waterways?

Water Waste

The recently popular notion that bottled water is somehow an environmental demon simply lacks a comprehensive understanding of the beverage market. Consider the fact that it takes four gallons of water to make a gallon of beer and that’s before you go upstream to the agricultural products that have to be grown (barley/hops) with water before you bottle. If you compute those usages (growing, processing and bottling), it takes over 42 gallons of water for a one gallon of beer. While not as egregious as beer, it still takes three gallons of water to make one gallon of soft drinks.

At O Premium Waters, for every 1 gallon of water we purify for consumption, we use 1.15 gallons of source water, eliminating only the unwanted contamination. Bottled water is the most efficient user of water in the entire beverage industry. Even better, bottled water is a healthiest beverage you can consume.

FINAL ANALYSIS

In the final analysis, a back-and-forth debate about tap versus bottled water quality doesn’t begin to address the bigger issues we face as inhabitants of this planet. We can recycle and we can offer other convenient methods for consumers to do their part in conserving, like using reusable 5 gallon bottles. We can also make wise decisions on how to spend our tax dollars. We can work together vigorously to keep our surface and ground water suitable for wildlife and recreation. Municipal tap water can be used with great confidence for many purposes. And the bottled water industry can continue to be held to the highest standards of taste and quality for human consumption.

THIS ARTICLE’S BASIC CONTENT WAS AUTHORED BY BRECK SPEED, CHAIRMAN OF MOUNTAIN VALLEY SPRING WATER COMPANY, AND SUBSEQUENTLY EDITED, WITH ADDITIONAL COMMENTS, BY O PREMIUM WATERS.

Consider these products from our everyday life:

Coca Cola’s main ingredient in Coke products is “TAP WATER”
Bath and Body Works “Body Lotion” is made from “TAP WATER”
Campbell’s V-8 Juice made from “TAP WATER”
International Delight Coffee Creamer made from “TAP WATER”
Wishbone Salad Dressing made from “TAP WATER”
Ocean Spray’s Cranberry Juice made from “TAP WATER”
Bud Light beer is made from “TAP WATER”
All Pharmaceutical Companies use “TAP WATER”

This list could go on to name virtually every company and product on the market that uses water as one of their ingredients. However, is this accurate representation of those products? Absolutely not, nor is it a valid representation of Aquafina or any other Purified Water offering on the market today, including O Premium Waters. All of the above named products and companies use “tap water” or “municipal water” as their source for one simple reason – it is the only water that is piped into virtually every residence and business in the U.S.

Since the source of the water is immaterial to the finished product, why would any company have their source water trucked into their respective plants if the end product is the same whether it comes from a river, well, aquifer, spring, or the municipal water system? The answer clearly is, “you wouldn’t”. The recent media spin of Aquafina being “tap water” is tantamount to saying that Boeing’s new 787 Carbon Fiber Jet is made of mere plastic. Taken out of context, the new carbon fiber jet is “plastic”, however in the context of the massive Jet’s carbon fiber construction, a reasonable comparison cannot be made. The same is true for “tap water” vs. “purified water”; it is the purification of the base product (tap water) that converts it to a highly purified drinking water. Comparing municipal water that may contain over 140 different allowable contaminants versus a contaminant free Purified Water product makes as much sense as a plastic Jet Liner.

It doesn’t take much testing or tasting to determine that the amount of allowable contaminants in tap water, in addition to the chlorine added to make it safe, are not acceptable to most water drinkers’ palate. If we follow the most recent media hyperbole, shouldn’t we now refer to "tap water" as "river water"? After all, virtually all of Greater Metropolitan Phoenix's municipal water comes from the Colorado River. Getting the point? It is clear that this anti business sentiment, sensationalized by the media, defies the supporting data and good old common sense.

Regardless of the Public Service Announcements and slick advertising campaigns developed by individual cities, tap water is increasingly not an option for cooking, baking, or general human consumption. The “Market” is determining the direction; drinking water will not be routinely consumed without the extensive purification processing done by quality companies like O Premium Waters. Remember, companies like O Premium Waters (and Aquafina), that process and bottle Purified Water, are the most regulated companies in the water business. Their source water (municipal water) is highly regulated by the Environmental Protective Agency (EPA) and their product water (end product) is highly regulated by Federal Drug Administration while the actual purification process is regulated by the State of Arizona and enforced locally by Maricopa County Health Department. Sounds like more than “river water”?! Enjoy a cold glass of Purified Water on us!

Remember how popular Snapple used to be? Duck! It probably is, but I don’t seem to hear as much about it.

Snapple always seemed surgary to me. Fruity but sugary. I was thirstier after drinking it than before.

And spendy. Isn’t it almost two bucks a bottle?

Now, you can forget Snapple and get the fount of continuous drinking pleasure we call the Esio Beverage System.

Esio is a handsome machine for home or office. You snap in the cost-effective flavor elements, decide on a strength, and the purified O Premium Waters mixes with the coffee, green tea, juices, or fitness water substances to make a delicious hot or cold drink!

The most caloric is 4 calories! Take that, Snapple!

Sound expensive? Not when you consider that your water lugging days are over—we do it! And the flavor elements are so long-lasting they run rings around the Snapple bottle or other popular beverages in terms of cost.

Esio green tea, with all its antioxidant magic, is 4 cents an ounce…43% less than Lipton Green Tea.

Esio Peach Tea? The same…43% less than Lipton Ready-to-Drink Peach Tea

Esio Diet Cranberry is 32% less than Ocean Spray.

The Esio Vitamin Fitness Water is one-fourth the cost of Propel Berry Flavor.

The Esio coffees are about 15% less than Starbucks one-pound blend.

These can add up when people are drifting into the kitchen or coffee room of your office every few hours.

To inquire about test-driving Esio, go to www.esiobev.com. We will even offer you a free Esio system when you sign up for water.

And—if we can’t beat your present water delivery terms by 20%, we will write you a check for $1000!

The Esio Beverage System not only makes delish coffee, tea, juice, and fitness water with the touch of a wand…er, button…but it is not some big, sloppy product that will squat in your home or office, making a mess.

Do you know how some so-called conveniences are more trouble than they are worth? How about those little countertop grills? Ick!

There is a special compartment on the Esio to hold the flavor paks out of sight. They last over 18 months, so you can stock up and be prepared.

A little kid can’t turn it on to slop on the floor. Some brings Junior to the office…press the child protection lock on the front! There, Junior-proof!

There are no tippy, saggy cups of wet coffee grounds to clean up…or as I used to do, spill on the floor or into an office sink with no disposal.

The little flavor paks are sealed and pop in like a CD.

And the thing is beautiful. Remember when design used to be a draw? Well, it still is in some companies.

So why not try the Esio Beverage System today? Go to www.esiobev.com.

We can all use a little order in our lives. My order is: Make mine strong!

When clients come to the offices with Esio Beverage Systems, they are impressed.

The Esio unit is sleek, modern and efficient-looking. Without a wait for it to warm up or for you to “put on a fresh pot,” they are served delicious Arabica coffee, caf or decaf. Or maybe they prefer tea. How about a cranberry juice? Or Vitamin Fitness Water?

It’s like being in Steven Spielberg’s office or something. You aim to please! Always the best for your clients.

Your employees are also happy. Employees love the coffee room—and the Esio is coffee room and water cooler combined.

Happy employees make even happier clients!

A bottle of O Premium Water sits on top and mixes with the patented flavor elements in mid-air.

I tried the Esio. I can say it was fun to operate and produced a tasty, satisfying drink in what seemed like seconds.

It’s also cheaper per serving than Starbucks (not even close), but also than beverages you lug from the store, even the big box store.

Quality, speed, low cost, convenience, no heavy lifting—who says you can’t have it all?

For more information, go to www.esiobev.com. Try it, your clients will like it! Make that--love it

Americans love their coffee. Coffee is an art form now.

Perfect coffee starts with the perfect bean. Don’t even get me started. Some people stand around talking about whether the sunny slope of a mountain in Jamaica is superior to the other side for producing La Bean!

Even the supermarket brands have different flavors, though—so trying new coffees is fun.

If your tap water is “distasteful,” say experts (meaning medicine-y, in my view), use bottled or filtered water. O Premium Waters is both! Never use softened water.

Match the grind to the brewing method. Grinding right before making the coffee ups the flavor by one-fourth!

Add one rounded tablespoon per cup of water—then see if that suits you.

Water should be between 190 and 200 degrees. Less and you get thin, lifeless coffee. More and the coffee will get bitter.

Percolators can cook away delicate flavors. They also run the water over the grounds many times, which can taste funky.

French press coffee—with that cylinder you squoosh down into the water and grounds—can be killer strong—and there is no way to keep it warm.

Drip makers make a light, clear coffee. But if you leave the container on the heating element, it can get bitter.

Oh, for heaven’s sakes, I might as well move to Seattle with all this. All you really need to do is sign up for the Esio Beverage System.

The handsome machine sits on the counter at home or office, topped by a bottle of pure, O Premium Water. In addition to gourmet coffee at any strength you want, it dispenses green tea, peach tea, fitness water, and cranberry juice.

Check it out at www.esiobev.com. Cheaper than the other methods, too. And you don’t need to move to Seattle to get it!

Tea is a delicate leaf. It needs to be stored in a tight container.

You need bottled spring water (no problem there!) for the perfect base.

Fresh, cold water goes in the kettle. Don’t let the water boil too long or it will take on oxygen and ruin the flavor.

Then warm the pot with hot water. In some tea ceremonies, considered the most civilized and graceful of social interactions, the outside of the pot is ladled with hot water and the tea steeped in the time it takes for the water to dry on the outside of the pot.

If you short-change the brewing time, the tea will be weak. Overbrew—bitter. Wrap the teapot to hold in the heat.

Think 3-5 minutes for black tea and 5-10 for herbal. Green tea? 1-3 minutes.

Or….You could get an Esio Beverage System and slip in a Flavor Pak, hit the button, and get ready to enjoy perfectly brewed green tea or peach tea at the strength you desire.

No teapot wetting, no wrapping, no timing—in fact, no teapot.

Go to www.esiobev.com to get all the info and ask for a demo.

Or if you are an O Premium Waters customer but don’t have Esio (yet), brew as above! O Premium Water makes the best tea in the world.

Have you seen those coffee dispensers on TV—the ones where they snap in a little flavor element and push the button?

Home Café, Tassimo and the others are similar to the Esio Beverage System from O Premium Waters—but different in terms of performance and cost.

Much different.

The others take 4-6 minutes to heat up. The power must be turned on daily, rather than staying on. This can be ages when you are craving a hot cuppa java.

The Esio is always full—no messy pouring. And it’s full of 10-times purified O Premium Water!

The others produce only hot beverages. What? No juices, iced tea, fitness water, even iced coffee?

The others…so sad…one strength only, you have no say in the matter. With the Esio, you select the strength.

You can fill a 64 oz thermos from the Esio—the others max out at 18 ounces only.

And the cost? Depending on the flavor paks you buy, 24 cents to 38 cents a serving!

Hello? Starbucks wouldn’t even open up if this was all they were getting. And the other counter models average more around 50 cents a serving.

So, live well, without breaking the bank…Go to www.esiobev.com and try the Esio.

I call it the YES-io!

Why is everyone picking on bottled water these days? It’s making Water Woman quite cross!

First, some ministers said it was a sacrilege or something for a company to charge for water, that water was God’s gift. Well, water companies charge—why shouldn’t bottled water companies?

Then, there was a go-round about rerouting rivers or something. That is not the fault of the water bottlers. In fact, their executives often sit on municipal boards and commissions discussing responsible water policies.

Then some environmentalists tried to argue that diverting water through a purifying plant to bottle it somehow polluted water.

Bottled water plants are industrial users of water, just like a factory.

In fact, they take less than other businesses—in Florida, according to an article by Meg Andronaco on www.tallahassee.com, the spring water industry in Florida uses 2 million gallons a day. On that same day, Florida golf courses will use 180 million gallons!

It takes about 1.3 gallons of water to produce a gallon of bottled water. To make a gallon of soda, it takes 3 gallons!

So if you like to live well and use the Esio Beverage System to produce delicious coffee, tea, juices and fitness water for your office or family, go ahead. It’s your right to consume fluids as you wish—and you aren’t taking away from anyone else.

Since the Esio System uses the large bottles, delivered to your door and empties removed, there is no recycling to even worry about, O Premium Waters takes care of it for you.

For a free trial, go to www.esiobev.com.

You know you think of your body as a finely oiled machine. Come on, admit it.

Actually, though, in addition to the joint lubrication provided by proper hydration, it also is sort of like an electrical system, with your heart pumping along in response to signals from balanced chemical groups.

You have heard of someone’s electrolytes being “off”? Usually this refers to potassium and sodium, although chloride also can be a factor.

If you redistribute fluids too fast during rigorous exercise or are a quart low on fluids, your electrolytes can get out of whack.

That is why people knock back the sports drinks during hikes, games, or organized exercise.

To prevent that saggy, drifty, weak , or crabby feeling.

O Premium Waters ’s Esio Beverage System makes a pak that mixes up a Vitamin Fitness Water, with a berry flavor. You get Vitamin C, E, and B to boost energy and smooth out your exhausted system.

The Esio machine also makes a no-calorie Cranberry drink, which is just as good for overall and bladder health as the syrupy, calorie-packed stuff from the store.

The beauty of it is—you don’t have to plan ahead. Walk at lunch…come in from shooting hoops…whatever you are doing…all you do is insert the cost-effective flavor paks, dial a strength, and Wham! A healthful drink.

Go to www.esiobev.com for more info and a free trial run.

You are at work, the kids burst in from school. They are hungry—and now that it’s heating up, they will be thirsty!

They may not drink coffee or even tea, but the peach tea and the cranberry and fitness drinks from the Esio Beverage System you have on your counter are preferable to a meal-spoiling soda from the fridge.

All they have to do it pop in the flavor pak of their choice, pick a strength, and let ‘er rip. In seconds, they are gulping down a tasty, healthy bev!

You know how kids like flavors. This is a way to get them to drink more without putting on the el-bees or coating their precious teeth with sugar.

If you are worried about the very little kids with their tippy-toe reaches and busy little fingers, the Esio Beverage System has a protection “lock-out” button. Press it for 3 seconds and the system freezes, no hot water to drip on them.

Seat the little ones to be served or let the older kids help out.

O Premium Waters has thought of everything! Naturally.

To try out the Esio, go to www.esiobev.com. See what the youngsters think.

The Esio Beverage system is a whizzbang, gorgeous machine that dispenses mess-free coffee, tea, juices and fitness water.

The emphasis is water! A jug of O Premium Waters ’s 10-times-purified water sits on top, waiting to be mixed in mid-air with the flavorings, at whatever strength you choose.

Studies show that people who drink a lot of water, in low-calorie or no-calorie form, tend to lose more weight on their diets than those who suck down sodas, and that includes diet sodas.

You also need 6-8 glasses to replace the water you lose breathing, sweating, and you know, pit-stopping.

If it’s flavored or enhanced, you are likely to drink more. It goes down so smoothly!

So go to the Esio website today. www.esiobev.com and get onboard for your free trial or demo.

Here’s to your health. Dial the highest strength for that!

Green tea is the new miracle worker on the nutritional scene, credited with great antioxidant powers, aimed at keeping weird rogue cells in your body, called free radicals, from bashing up your healthy cells.

The Esio Beverage System — an all-inclusive brewing and mixing console that produces delicious counter drinks based on O Premium Water—offers brewed green tea.

Green tea just tastes well, green. It seems organic, grassy, refreshing. Like breathing in a meadow.

You get 40 servings (8 oz) of the green tea essence for about $13.

You pop in the little capsule, called a Pak, dial up a strength, and the machine heats the O Premium waters to the proper brewing temperature and delivers the healthy bev in seconds.

Esio also offers brewed Peach Tea. HA tried some! It’s yummy, with a light, sunny, fresh-from-the orchard sweetness, although it contains no sugar or chemical sweeteners. Just a whiff of Georgia peach!

Again, you can whomp out 40 servings for about $13 bucks for the flavor, water additional.

Check it out! Go to www.esiobev.com.

Grande, Very Huge-o, who needs those la-dee-da descriptions when you have your own Esio Beverage System?

This patented console, produces mess-free beverages based on O Premium Waters crisp, clear, purified water. The blue bottle of O Premium sits right on top.

The little flavor inserts come in several yummy types. For coffee lovers, there is a choice of Premium Brazilian, Columbian and Sumatran coffees, 100% Arabica beans.

Or maybe your spouse or clients would like a Dark Roast Columbian Decaf.

You just put in the sealed, non-drippy capsule, dial up your desired strength and you’re off!

Just like Starbucks—without the Big Bucks. The flavor paks come three to the box, with a box making 54 cups of coffee (6 oz). All for $15.19 for the coffee paks.

Heck, at Starbucks, they take the word BUCKS seriously—it’s even in the name! They can’t match this price any day they open up.

For a demo of the Esio Beverage System, go to www.esiobev.com.