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(April 28, 2009, Planet Green)
According to a study by the Environmental Working Group, bottled water is just as polluted as a tap water. In fact, twenty percent of bottled water has more chlorine than California’s state regulations will allow in tap water.
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(April 26, 2009, Sand Gets in My Eyes)
The “raw” water in Saudi isn’t really fit to drink, so bottled water, rather than being a luxury like it is in other places, is a necessity.
Anyway, awhile back I started noticing that when I drank certain brands of water, my gut really started to hurt. More specifically, [...]

(March 20, 2009, Michael Pollak, The New York Times)
Q. Eight ounces of Poland Spring (plus a nice plastic bottle) costs about a dollar. How much does the same amount straight from the tap cost? I mean, how much does it really cost?
A. One two-thousandth as much, according to the city’s Department of Environmental Protection.
Both the [...]

(March 7, 2009, Crikey Creek)
When I was doing the grocery shopping one day, back in Madison, WI, I made an amazing discovery. Right across from the beer, and round the corner from the dried fruit and wine, I saw the iconic image of New Zealand’s Mitre Peak – a mountain that pops out of Milford [...]

(March 5, 2009, Randall Amster, Huffington Post)

Life here in the desert southwest is richly complex and oftentimes a great challenge. A hint of frontier culture remains even as rampant growth and homogenization take hold at breakneck speed. People love the landscapes and the history, but can still sit and watch both disappear in the name [...]

(March 2, 2009, USA Today)

Gov. Charlie Crist wants Florida’s water bottlers to start paying for the water they pump from aquifers in the state, The Miami Herald reports.
Outside the rural north Florida town of Lee, “every day, Nestle Waters of North America sucks up an estimated 500,000 gallons from Madison Blue Springs,” the paper says. [...]

(Feb. 28, 2009, The Water Blog, Portland Water Bureau)
Dear Water Blogmistress,

I am writing because I need advice in regards to a tap-related dilemma I’m having. I love Portland’s tap water so, so, so much and I find fellow tap-water enthusiasts… well, I’ll just say it… they’re hot. People who drink and love Portland’s tap water are hot! They [...]

(Feb. 26, 2009, Associated Press)
As more companies become conscious of their carbon footprint, a new movement is urging corporations to track their “water footprint” as well, or risk financial losses as freshwater supplies dry up around the globe.
Major corporations such as Coca-Cola Co. now disclose the amount of water they use in financial reports, in [...]

(Feb. 20, 2009, Boston Sustainable Food Examiner)
Did you know that bottled water in the U.S. is not subject to the same stringent standards as tap water?  The Environmental Protection Agency sets standards for water that comes out of your sink, but bottled water is regulated by the Food and Drug Administration, which uses a different [...]

(Feb. 20, 2009, The St. Louis Business Journal)

Since Washington University became the first university last month to ban bottled water to reduce plastic waste, other universities have contacted the school about potentially following suit.
Last week, the university held a conference call with 40 members of groups from universities that are interested in learning how Washington [...]

(Feb. 13, 2009, The International Herald Tribune)
HARTFORD, Conn.: It’s a drop in the bucket for overburdened budgets, but bottled water is an expense states are considering cutting at the urging of activists trying to galvanize support for the use of public water supplies.
Following a similar move by U.S. mayors earlier this year, governors across the country [...]

I finally got to catch David Zetland in person the other night, at the Black Rocks Arts Foundation (BRAF) on 3rd St.  The theme was “Elemental Interactions: Water” and Mr. Zetland opened with a 23-Minute talk, which I was able to film with my Flip camcorder.
I’ve broken Zetland’s talk up into three 7-minute parts:
Part 1 [...]

(Jan. 25, 2009, Treehugger)
In the battle of the bottle versus the tap, tap water clearly wins out as a more environmentally-friendly (and cheaper) choice. Thus it’s a little hard to know what to do with this new organically-certified bottled water by Swedish company Malmberg. On the one hand, the company’s got their priorities in the [...]

(Jan. 22, 2009, KVBC News 3)

Last week, Governor Gibbons announced his proposed budget during his State of the State address. He also encouraged Nevadans to go online and take a look at his budget. That’s something the News 3 Investigators did, and Mitch Truswell discovered that the state will spend thousands of dollars just on [...]

(Jan. 21, 2009, EconomicsHelp)
I often hear of arguments saying bottles mineral water should be banned. The reasons are:

Contributes to global warming
Creates unnecessary landfill

For what it is worth I’d like to give my twopennce worth on this topic. But, first, I have to admit my bias and prejudices. The thing is I don’t drink [...]

(Jan. 20, 2009, Portland Water Bureau)
If you follow The Water Blog you probably know by now that we’re on Twitter (Portland Water). While exploring Twitter the other day, I asked it to search for a variety of water-related key words, one being, “bottled water” and another being “tap water.”
I received an astonishingly large lists of Tweets dealing with [...]

(Jan. 20, 2009, ijustine, Flickr)

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(Jan. 20, 2009, JCFloridan)
A new water bottling plant in Marianna should be in full production some time next month, according to T.J. East, the plant manager for Ice River Springs’ local operation.
The Canada-based company will be drawing water from White Springs in Liberty County’s Bristol community, and Gainer Springs in Bay County’s Fountain community, [...]

(Jan. 19, 2009, RiverWired)
I recently saw a study that looked at how many people buy bottled water for drinking at home, and what it costs them. The results were insane. There are folks paying up to $8 per gallon for water!
Are you guilty? If you’re only buying bottled, you just might be, even if you’re [...]

(Jan. 19, 2009, Freakonomics)
A friend at another university tells me that his school is banning the sale of bottled water on campus, as the university administration is bothered by the pollution produced by plastic water bottles.
Presumably, they figure that bottled-water consumers will switch to tap water, as tap water is bottled water’s closest substitute. [...]

(Jan. 17, 2009, Portland Water Bureau)
The island nation of Fiji is in desperate need of clean drinking water after severe flooding left 11 dead and 9,000 people in evacuation centers. The flooding was caused by torrential rain and was the worst the country has seen in 40 years.
Fiji’s interim government has asked for international assistance.
Fiji’s Permanent [...]