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The Safety of Bottled Water...  
Date: 04/01/2009
  
Spring-ing Into a Healthy Lifestyle...  
Date: 03/24/2009
  

Local News 

How much is hard water costing you?...  
Date: 09/21/2011
  
Thirstiest Canadian Contest...  
Date: 08/02/2011
  

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  • What Groundhog?s Day Means to Your Water Heater...  
    02/03/12 Water heaters represent up to 14% of an average household?s energy consumption. Therefore, picking the best and most efficient model for your home is ...
  • EPA Finds Lead in Chicago Drinking Water...  
    02/02/12 Lead found in some Chicagoans' drinking water questions current tap water testing procedures....
  • Fertilizer contamination a concern in Upper Big Blue area...  
    02/02/12 A recent article in the Lincoln Journal Star examines what the York-based Upper Big Blue Natural Resources District is doing to control fertilizer con...
  • Sidewalk or Softener?...  
    01/27/12 Yesterday we took a little poll on Facebook to test how much Culligan fans really know about water softening. After reading your answers we couldnR...
  • Sterling Water Welcomes Willmar Dealership Into the Fold...  
    01/25/12 Effective January 1, 2012, Sterling Water-Minnesota, LLC d.b.a Culligan of South Central Minnesota has acquired Culligan Water Conditioning of Glenwoo...
  • Evolution of the Culligan Man...  
    01/20/12 All icons go through their share of changes. This week marks the most recent evolution of the most recognizable symbol in water as Culligan Internatio...
  • Try a Little Tenderness...  
    01/18/12 A recent article in the IndyStar outlined each appliance in your home and how you can treat it with the respect and care it deserves. Over time, impro...
  • There?s a New Culligan Man in Town...  
    01/17/12 It?s not every day a 75-year-old company re-defines its brand icon. Water treatment leader Culligan International is doing just that with an update to...
  • Dr. Oz and Reverse Osmosis...  
    01/13/12 A few weeks ago on his talk show Dr. Oz did a series on the safeness of your tap water. He and other experts discussed the possibility of contaminants...
  • The Very General Water Softener Explanation...  
    01/05/12 If you don’t know it by now, we are fans of soft water. We wax philosophic about it on this very blog almost every week. But mostly, we concentr...
  • 2011: Culligan Highlights...  
    12/30/11 Before Culligan rings in 2012, let’s look back at 2011… Culligan turned 75 in 2011 and we celebrated all year long. Our convention in sunn...
  • To: My House ? From: The Homeowner...  
    12/22/11 Most people don’t think to get their home a Christmas present (and we don’t blame them – the idea seems kind of silly.) But what if ...
  • Culligan of Wheaton Gives Back...  
    12/21/11 At Culligan we like to recognize dealers giving back to their communities. This year, Culligan of Wheaton is doing its part by sponsoring the “M...
  • ?Tis the Season...  
    12/15/11 People yell “Hey Culligan Man!” all over the world. They yell it in Australia and Argentina. It can be heard in Nova Scotia and Texas. So,...
  • The Ins and Outs of Reverse Osmosis...  
    12/08/11 “Bottled water is better than reverse osmosis water,” or  ”It isn’t healthy to drink reverse osmosis water.” As Culligan...
  • Local Iowa Dealer Wins Sales Award...  
    12/08/11 For the third year in a row, Andy Matheason from Emmetsburg, IA, won the Culligan Salesman of the Year Award for the Iowa and Missouri district. Mathe...
  • The Season That Was in the Big Ten...  
    12/01/11 As a proud sponsor of the Big Ten Network, it is only fitting that Culligan looks back on the season that was and forward to the game that will be. Th...
  • Be Thankful...  
    11/23/11 Ah, Thanksgiving. The traditional, “What are you thankful for this year?” circles around the table, followed by mashed potatoes and the gr...
  • Revisionist History...  
    11/17/11 This year marks the 75th anniversary of the Culligan brand.  The brand’s slogan may be a memorable as anything else every featured in advertisin...
  • Alberta?s Water Gets a C-...  
    11/15/11 Originally reported at CTV News TORONTO ? More than a decade after the Walkerton disaster, much of Canada’s tap water remains at risk from conta...
  • Arsenic pollutes Iowa?s water supplies...  
    11/14/11 Originally printed in the Des Moines Register Hundreds of Iowans across the state are drinking tap water polluted with poisonous arsenic as health wor...
  • Culligan: A Case Study...  
    11/10/11 We know Culligan’s residential water systems are great solutions for household water issues. They are extremely effective but they are also very...
  • National award for local bottling plant...  
    11/09/11 By NICK GARDINER THE RECORDER AND TIMES Originally found at http://www.recorder.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3348134 Posted 13 days ago Brockville’s...
  • Magnetic Water Conditioners Attract Misconceptions...  
    11/04/11 Areas of North America have been barraged by claims of a 'salt-free' water softeners and conditioners. After a few weeks a majority of these new conve...
  • Halloween Hydration...  
    10/27/11 Zombies. Goblins. Ghouls, ghosts and monsters. October can be a fright-filled time of year, but one thing that shouldn’t scare you is your water...
  • Live in Indianapolis? Groupon Time!...  
    10/25/11 Interested in getting this great deal? Simply go to http://www.groupon.com/deals/culligan-indianapolis Hey Culligan Man!...
  • Airing the Dirty Laundry...  
    10/21/11 There are few pleasures on this earth that rival fresh laundry. Clean sheets alone can soothe the soul of any man, woman or child, and most of the wor...
  • Flashback Friday...  
    10/14/11 We’ve dubbed today Flashback Friday and in honor of this proclamation we’re bringing you some old-school Culligan culture. Everyone knows ...
  • Respect the Inspect...  
    10/07/11 A water softener is like any other appliance in the home. It needs some attention from time to time to ensure it’s running at peak performance. ...
  • Brew a Better Beverage...  
    09/29/11 September 29th is National Coffee Day and in honor of this java-filled holiday we’re telling you how you can improve the taste of your beverage ...
  • The Culligan Man & Social Media...  
    09/28/11 By now we’ve all heard the term “social media”. You may even use it! But even if you’ve never made a Facebook profile, it̵...
  • Home Water Tests...  
    09/23/11 The last few posts have dealt with a variety of water issues. But we are not just grossing you out for no reason. (Even thought it was fun.) Most of u...
  • Making Sense of Hard Water...  
    09/15/11 Impress the Culligan Man by learning the many signs of hard water. Simply use one or more of your senses to determine if you have a water problem. See...
  • UPDATE: Name that Stain!...  
    09/08/11 Scroll down for answers Pair up the problem water stain with the right location. 1. Bathtub 2. Toilet 3. Sink a.   b.   c.  Answer right on ...
  • Culligan is a Fair Favorite...  
    09/01/11 From the Minneapolis Star Tribune Culligan Hydration Station, Dan Patch Av. and Cosgrove St. The fairgrounds are riddled with clever but semi-useless ...
  • An Ode to the Shower...  
    09/01/11 Consider this a love letter to one of the greatest innovations in modern hygiene: the shower. Its roots can be traced back to ancient peoples using wa...
  • Water Filters Installed on Parts of Campus...  
    08/30/11 From Downtown Devil Downtown student government promises to install water filters on drinking fountains throughout the campus have been fulfilled foll...
  • Sterling Water Bottling Plant Awarded ?Excellence in Manufacturing?...  
    08/25/11 All too often, the most important contributors to a business? success operate just out of view. The employees of the bottling plant of Sterling Water,...
  • Sparty Flexes For Big Ten Preview Tour...  
    08/23/11 The Big Ten Preview Tour continued on its course and landed in East Lansing to take in the Michigan State Spartan’s practice. Go green! Go white...
  • U of Michigan Shows Off For Big Ten Preview Tour...  
    08/22/11 Division 1 football players and Culligan Men and Women have a lot in common. They both have to be dedicated, motivated and well-trained. Some Wolverin...
  • What the Heck is Reverse Osmosis?...  
    08/22/11 Recent reports bring up more questions than answers about drinking water, either from the tap or bottled. It is vital to take steps towards improving ...
  • Homework and Hydration...  
    08/19/11 It's that time. Kids wearily watch as the calendar boxes fill up and parents gleefully count down the days until school starts. A trip to the store f...
  • o-h-I-O State Buckeyes and Big Ten Preview Tour Connect in Columbus...  
    08/18/11 The Buckeyes took to the field as the Big Ten Preview Tour took to the stage to check in with Luke Fickell’s team.  Culligan kept the cast and c...
  • BTN Visits Penn State...  
    08/18/11 Linebacker U. gets some face time with Big Ten Preview Tour. Culligan came along for the ride....
  • From Tap to Bottled Water...  
    08/17/11 Take a second to watch this YouTube (via BottledWaterMatters.com) showing the complex process of turning municipal water into a packaged drink. Go beh...
  • ?Hoosier? Pick This Big Ten Season?...  
    08/17/11 New coach, new attitude, new bus and Culligan Water all converged on Bloomington. The Hoosiers were fired up to show off their progress to the Big Ten...
  • Big Ten Preview Tour Watches the Illini In Action...  
    08/17/11 The Illini are ready to rock this season, and BTN witnessed it first hand. Check out some behind-the-scenes pictures taken of Ron Zook’s gridiro...
  • Some of the Thirstiest Canadians...  
    08/16/11 At the time of these photos, the Culligan Men and Women at the Navan Fair served over 3,000 people at our Culligan Hydration Station. They were giving...
  • Iowa Hawkeyes Host Big Ten Preview Tour...  
    08/16/11 When you think of smash-mouth football, you think of The Big Ten Preview Tour and the Iowa Hawkeyes. Kirk Ferentz’s squad looked ready for Septe...
  • Sights and Scenes of Huskers from the Big Ten Preview Tour...  
    08/16/11 The Big Ten Preview Tour kept its feet moving like a good QB in a 5-step drop. Lincoln, the home of Heismans and Huskers, hosted the crew from BTN. Bo...
  • The Calgary Culligan Canine Connection...  
    08/12/11 From @LaurieSouchotte: ” Our labs LOVE our driver. Thankfully he doesn’t mind. BUT labs do more spilling than drinking, so we’d be b...
  • Touchdown, Culligan!...  
    08/11/11 Football fans have a lot to look forward to this year. The NFL lockout is over. College football starts in a few short weeks. Weekends will soon be fi...
  • BTN Preview Tour Visits Gophers...  
    08/10/11 The Big Ten Preview Tour kept its bus moving up I-94 as it rolled out of Mad-Town and arrived in the Twin Cities. Gas fueled the bus. Culligan Water f...
  • Your Minnesota Culligan Groupon Questions Answered...  
    08/09/11 If you are lucky enough to live in Minnesota, you can take advantage of Culligan’s latest offer. Here is a simple FAQ to remove all doubt from y...
  • Badgers Kick Off ?Big Ten Football Preview? Tour...  
    08/09/11 While the Big Ten is nearly a century old and Culligan is celebrating its 75th anniversary, the two iconic institutions are finally joining forces. Th...
  • EPA Finds High Lead Levels in Some Chicago Water...  
    08/08/11 From the Chicago Tribune CHICAGO? Tests of Chicago drinking water by federal regulators are raising concerns about exposure to lead, a toxic metal. Th...
  • Consider the Source. The Water Source....  
    08/04/11 While the water source and quality is rarely the first thing that comes to mind, it is an important purchasing factor. Home inspectors generally check...
  • Water in Winnebago Co. Tests Positive for Contamination...  
    08/03/11 From WREX.com WINNEBAGO COUNTY (WREX) - Tests turn up positive for gasoline-like material in Winnebago County drinking water. Health leaders trace the...
  • Tucson Water Hardness Likely to Rise...  
    08/03/11 From Fox11AZ.com TUCSON, Ariz. — Ground water in the desert is hard because of the amount of rock and minerals in the ground. It’s never b...
  • Home Sweet Home?Filter...  
    07/28/11 Every home has its jealousies. The living room wishes it was the TV room. The half-bath prays to be whole, while the basement is just trying to shed i...
  • Hot Time in the City...  
    07/22/11 Barrie Culligan Man"Bottled water is also a hot commodity," says Tim McCardy who works at Culligan of Barrie. The Barrie Culligan dealership pushed wa...
  • Stay Cool with Culligan...  
    07/22/11 The Rhinelander Culligan dealership kicked it into high gear this week as Wisconsin saw record high temperatures. From WJFW News: Greg Zeske, Culligan...
  • Homeowner?s Guide to a Boil Advisory...  
    07/21/11 The city issues a water boil advisory. Panic sets in. What do you do? With the help of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection weR...
  • Culligan Man: Hero of the Heat Wave...  
    07/21/11 Sioux Falls residents have a new hero this week – their Culligan Man. With temperatures in the upper 90s and heat indices over 100 degrees, wate...
  • Winnipeg Keeps Cool...  
    07/21/11 On Monday, Winnepeg residents used 19.5 million litres of water – their third highest consumption level this decade. By 9 p.m. water use had eas...
  • Water Treatment Plan Targets Manganese...  
    07/20/11 A recent article from the Stevens Point Journal talks about the City of Merrill's water treatment plan to target manganese. Know that the Culligan Man...
  • Pack Water....  
    07/15/11 No matter your preferred escape - cabin, cottage, lake house, camping - when preparing, remember to pack plenty of water to stay cool during those ver...
  • The Story Behind the Softener: Diaper Rash...  
    07/08/11 Cloth diapers are really popular with the latest generation of parents as recent conversations have shown. As a parent himself, Emmet Culligan started...
  • Sterling Water Culligan Acquires Regional Bottled Water Business...  
    07/07/11 Effective July 1st, Sterling Water, Inc. d.b.a Culligan of Central Wisconsin announces its acquisition of Zastrow Natural Water, the 5-gallon bottled ...
  • Your Drinking Water Options...  
    06/30/11 We’re going to play a little game of word association. I say “Drinking Water.” You say, “____.” What was the first word ...
  • From Lake Water to Drinking Water?...  
    06/27/11 Would you drink water out of Lake Ontario? That’s exactly what one reporter set out to do. In an effort to become more self-reliant and use reso...
  • ?Boil order? issued after Minot water supply breach...  
    06/27/11 Originally published by Reuters “MINOT, North Dakota (Reuters) ? As record floodwaters began to ebb on Sunday, the swollen Souris River infiltra...
  • Milwaukee Loves Water...  
    06/27/11 Fast becoming a hub of water technology innovation, Inside Milwaukee outlines the city and state’s liquid assets: ” 34.7 square miles R...
  • The Story Behind the Softener: Diaper Rash...  
    06/23/11 Cloth diapers are really popular with the latest generation of parents. As a parent himself, Emmet Culligan started a water revolution based on one s...
  • The New Fountain of Youth: Your Faucet...  
    06/23/11 One of the most phenomenal beauty treatments is available to everyone; it?s painless, has positive side affects and an unlimited supply....
  • Insecticide Discovered in Florida Wells...  
    06/23/11 More than 100 wells in Central Florida are tainted by an insecticide known as dieldrin. According to the Orlando Sentinel, federal officials banned di...
  • Want To Lose Weight? Drink Water!...  
    06/22/11 As of June 21st, your 2011 summer has officially started. It is time to start that diet you've been thinking about since January. We suggest you start...
  • Protecting the Great Lakes...  
    06/22/11 Did you know there’s a Great Lakes compact? The law, signed in 2008, allows the eight Great Lakes states and two Canadian provinces to decide wh...
  • Dirty but ?Drinkable??...  
    06/17/11 A recent story out of Minden, NE talks about a problem affecting a much wider swath of the country: aging infrastructures. “A Minden woman chang...
  • Bottled Water Beliefs...  
    06/16/11 ?A poll of 632 parents visiting an emergency room in Milwaukee, Wisconsin recently made headlines when results found, “black and Hispanic childr...
  • Keeping Your Drinking Water Safe...  
    06/14/11 Ken Clark, the general manager of Total Water Culligan spoke with Elishah Oesch from WKOW about how to keep your family's drinking water safe and clea...
  • Quad Cities Water Education...  
    06/14/11 At Culligan we know the importance of understanding water. For that reason we’re sharing information about the Wetlands and Water Quality Worksh...
  • Most Illinois Drinking Water Meets Standards...  
    06/14/11 The Daily Herald reported that last year, most of the drinking water in Illinois met state and federal health requirements....
  • Heat Highlights Hydration and Health...  
    06/09/11 Unpredictable weather patterns are becoming…well…predictable. People in every corner of the continent are scratching their head as winter ...
  • Omaha Drinking Water Unaffected by Flooding...  
    06/09/11 The Missouri River has been pouring over its banks putting Omaha, NE and putting the city’s drinking water at risk. According to KVNO News city ...
  • Wadena water ruled safe to drink...  
    06/08/11 According to KSAX News, the water boil advisory issued for Wadena, MN on Monday has been cleared. All residents were advised to boil their water befor...
  • The Organ Man...  
    06/02/11 Considering the human body is anywhere from 55% to almost 80% water, don't you think you should be very aware of the quality of water you're consuming...
  • Culligan Total Water Donates Water to Joplin...  
    06/01/11 Culligan Total Water DonatesCulligan Total Water Madison donated a pallet of water for the people of Joplin. Madison radio station, 93.1 Jamz asked li...
  • The Great Water Bottle Debate...  
    05/26/11 BPA Free? Aluminum? Stainless steel? Plastic? One trip down the sporting goods aisle will overwhelm you with water bottle options. We?ll try and break...
  • Waukesha Water Wells Fail...  
    05/24/11 Last week, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported both of  Waukesha’s deep well filters failed. The filters are used to removed radium from res...
  • Culligan Honors Local Dealership ? Mansfield OH...  
    05/23/11 Culligan Quality Water of North Central Ohio has been awarded the Emmett J. Culligan Award of Excellence....
  • Hidden, Not Lost: The Benefits of Quality Water...  
    05/20/11 Lately, a slew of trade and consumer reports reiterate a very basic fact: your water quality is important. While this may seem common sense, here are ...
  • Haiti Volunteer Thankful for Culligan Water...  
    05/19/11 On Daniel Alford's mission trip to Haiti, he was thankful to have access to Culligan water. He expressed his appreciation on his Facebook wall, thanki...
  • Haiti Volunteer Thankful for Culligan Water...  
    05/19/11 On Daniel Alford's mission trip to Haiti, he was thankful to have access to Culligan water. He expressed his appreciation on his Facebook wall, thanki...
  • Well Water Watch...  
    05/17/11 Are you on the Well Water Watch? As a result of this year’s heavy snowfall throughout the region, the frequency and severity of flash floods are...
  • Eau Claire Culligan Dealer Wins Highest Honors in North America...  
    05/17/11 Sterling Water, Inc., dba Culligan Water Conditioning of Eau Claire recently received the company?s most prestigious honor ? the Emmett J. Culligan Aw...
  • Use Water Sense...  
    05/12/11 Water filter pitchers also make no sense. While they provide a quick fix for better tasting water, this minor purchase prolongs the major purchase of ...
  • May Drinking Water Challenge...  
    05/05/11 The Challenge: Replace all soft drinks and coffee breaks with a clean glass of water. The Competitor: You May is National Drinking Water Month and for...
  • April Showers Bring?Water Contaminants?...  
    04/29/11 This year, almost every corner of the continent saw heavy precipitation. With that rain and snow, well water can come under attack....
  • How to Use 50% Less Detergent this Earth Day...  
    04/21/11 As Earth Day approaches, we wanted to highlight new ways to conserve energy when it comes to water. ...