Water Bottle Refill Stations
Currently, there are 103 water bottle refilling stations installed at University Park and several at the Commonwealth Campuses. Strategic placement of these stations around the University mean that Penn Staters have easy access to clean, good-tasting for their reusable water bottles.
BUILDING | LOCATION |
---|---|
AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES | |
BANK OF AMER CAREER SVCS STR | LOBBY AREA |
BOUCKE BLDG | ROOM 110A |
BRYCE JORDAN CENTER | 2 LOCATIONS ON MAIN CONCOURSE |
BUSINESS BLDG | STUDENT COMMONS AREA |
CHAMBERS BLDG | NEAR ROOM 121 |
COMPUTER BLDG | |
DAVEY LAB | BY ROOM 109 |
DEIKE BLDG | ROOM 1 |
EARTH & ENGINEERING SCIENCES BLDG | BY MRR E SIDE |
FINDLAY HALL | LOBBY |
FLEET OPERATIONS | |
FORUM BLDG | |
FOX HOLLOW BLDG | LOBBY NEAR RESTROOM |
HAMMOND BLDG | BY ROOM 136 |
HUB-HETZEL UNION BLDG | NEAR ROOM 126 |
HUB-HETZEL UNION BLDG | 2 IN NEW ADDITION |
HUCK LIFE SCIENCES BLDG-BSMT | NEAR R2 |
INTRAMURAL BLDG | NEAR ROOM 010 |
IST-INFORMATION SCIENCES & TECH | BY ROOM 206 |
KELLER BLDG | |
KERN GRADUATE BLDG | |
MOORE BLDG | 104 COORIDOR |
OSMOND LAB | BY 1ST FLOOR JA |
PATTEE LIBRARY | |
PEGULA ICE RINK | CONCOURSE LEVEL |
PHYSICAL PLANT BLDG | NEAR ROOM 159 |
POND LAB-BSMT | RM 016C |
REC HALL | FITNESS CENTER |
SACKETT BLDG | BY RM 114 |
SHIELDS BLDG | BY RM 201A |
SPARKS BLDG | NEAR RM 308 |
SPARKS BLDG | BY ROM 101 CENTRAL |
STUCKEMAN FAMILY BLDG | |
THOMAS BLDG | NEAR RM 127 |
WAGNER BLDG | BY ROOM 101 |
WAGNER BLDG | CORRIDOR BY 218 |
WAGNER BLDG | COORIDOR BY 323 |
WHITE BLDG | WEIGHT ROOM, BASEMENT |
WHITE BLDG | WEIGHT ROOM, BASEMENT |
WHITMORE LAB | BY RM 112 |
WILLARD BLDG | NEAR ROOM 158 |

How can my unit get a water bottle refill station?
- The average cost to install a bottle-filling station is in the range of $4,000 to $4500. Cost depends on proximity of adjacent plumbing and electrical services. Average annual maintenance costs are in the range of $600 to $650 per year, although this is variable based on usage. Low-usage units will cost less; high usage (high traffic) units will require more frequent maintenance and can run as high as $2,500 per year.
- Requests for refill stations in your office unit should be made through your designated Facilities Coordinator.
Consider the following statistics
- Annually, Penn Staters recycle over 200 tons of plastic bottles (approximately 7.6 million water bottles).
- In the United States, only about 24 percent of disposable plastic bottles are recycled.
- At that rate, approximately 600 tons of bottles are sent to the landfill – sitting there for hundreds of years.
Disposable water bottles consume important resources: petroleum and water. As calculated by the Pacific Institute, in 2006, Americans bought 30 billion plastic water bottles, made from 17 million barrels of petroleum; if transportation of bottles was added to the calculation, this number rises to 50 million barrels of oil annually. Further, to produce these bottles requires three times the volume in water, not counting the water inside each bottle. Finally, bottled water also requires energy throughout its life cycle: to capture, treat and send water to the bottling plant; to fill, package, transport and refrigerate the bottled water; and recycle or dispose of the empty containers.
