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  • Monthly Science: Water Bottle Refill History

    This year’s Northern Star Quilt Guild show in the O’Neill Center at WCSU gave me an opportunity to update last year’s data points, although not quite in the way I expected.

    The overview:

    Gym water bottle refill station B - overview
    Gym water bottle refill station B – overview

    The left display is rotting out:

    Gym water bottle refill station B - left
    Gym water bottle refill station B – left

    The center display seems undamaged:

    Gym water bottle refill station B - center
    Gym water bottle refill station B – center

    The right display took a direct hit:

    Gym water bottle refill station B - right
    Gym water bottle refill station B – right

    So the middle station refilled 3025 = 10460 – 7435 bottles, roughly eight bottles a day, every day, for a year. Seems like a lot of refilling, doesn’t it?

    Unfortunately, I didn’t take pictures of the other watering hole last year, but here’s what it looks like now:

    Overview:

    Gym water bottle refill station A - overview
    Gym water bottle refill station A – overview

    Left:

    Gym water bottle refill station A - left
    Gym water bottle refill station A – left

    Center:

    Gym water bottle refill station A - center
    Gym water bottle refill station A – center

    Right:

    Now, it’s entirely possible I have the two stations reversed, in which case I have numbers for all three displays:

    • Left = 242 = 4758 – 4516
    • Center = 633 = 8068 – 7435
    • Right = 800 = 9689 – 8889

    Does a bottle or two a day, every day, for a year, seem more reasonable? Hard to say, so, with a bit of luck, we’ll have more data next year.

    For science!