More and more businesses are opting for a bottle-less water cooler and homeowners that can are jumping on the  band wagon too. Homeowners like not having to lift a heavy bottle which often weighs 5 gallons.  Probably, the most significant advantage is the fact that this type of system helps to prevent waste going into landfills. Overall, what this helps to do is reduce greenhouse emissions of gas as compared to using bottles or a water service of bottled water.  There is no storage, transporting, distributing, recycling, removing or dumping of plastic used bottles. There is also a convenience factor as there are no bottles to worry about, no ordering or fear of running out of water.