(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.
(Original Post Here)
(April 11, 2009, Time Magazine)
The reek of unwashed toilets spilled into the street in the neighborhood of unpainted cinder block houses. Out on the main road, hundreds of residents banged plastic buckets and blocked the path of irate drivers while children scoured the surrounding area for government trucks. Finally, the impatient crowd launched into a [...]
(April 9, 2009, AFP)
Some two million residents of Mexico City on Thursday began 36 hours without water under an emergency plan over Easter vacation to respond to a record drop in water supply and to work on repairs…
(Original Article Here)
(March 9, 2009, Reuters)
From cotton farms to factories that make high-tech computer chips, companies face huge risks from droughts like those searing California and Australia and that recently parched the U.S. Southeast.
Climate scientists say droughts will become more common as higher temperatures evaporate water supplies and overuse drain aquifers faster than they can be replenished [...]
(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. 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. 9, 2009, The Water Blog, PortlandOnline)
Thanks to @yashkaur, one of the bureau’s Twitter friends, I learned something very new and interesting about water today.
This morning, my Twitter search for “Portland” + “tap water” revealed the following Tweet:
“Is it just me or Portland’s tap water is getting more and more cloudy over the days!”
I was [...]
(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. 12, 2009, BoingBoing)
Researchers at the Southern Nevada Water Authority analyzed tap water from 19 US water utilities. New Scientist shares the list of the top 11 detected compounds, fortunately all of which were “found at extremely low concentrations.” According the Environmental Protection Agency, there’s no cause for alarm but there could be risk “especially [...]
(Jan. 10, 2009, Portand Water Blog)
Early results from a study being performed by researchers at the University of Notthingham (Portsmouth England) suggest that the hardness or softness of one’s water could influence the severity of the skin condition eczema.
