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NY Deposits On Bottled Water Take Effect Oct. 31
Nickel deposits will be imposed on bottled water in New York state starting Oct. 31. after U.S. District Judge Deborah Batts issued an order lifting an injunction on the deposits.
Visit Instapure's Blog to View Video of Instapure's Hunger Action Month Donations
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Clean Water Laws Are Neglected, at a Cost in Suffering
Jennifer Hall-Massey knows not to drink the tap water in her home near Charleston, W.Va.
Co-op Will Drop Plastic Water bottles
Ashland Food Co-op will stop selling bottled water in single-use plastic containers next week, it announced.
Small Water Systems Have More Than Their Share of Big Problems
Because small water systems in Washington are more likely than large ones to fail, the state Department of Health is recommending a series of changes aimed at preventing small systems from coming up short.
Northrop To Clean Up Calif. Water At Superfund Site
Northrop Grumman Corp on Thursday reached a settlement with U.S. environmental regulators that requires the aerospace giant to spend about $21 million to clean up groundwater pollution dating from World War II manufacturing through the 1980s.
Tap Water At The Farmers Market...And It's Free!
Something besides the samples is free at the Santa Monica Farmers Market today. It's drinking water.
Clear On Water
It's an oldie but a goodie: Evian is naive spelled backward. Get it? You're paying for something you can get almost for free. But ultimately, the joke may be on our nation's health.
Asbestos Cement Water Pipe Risks
In Eagle Point, Oregon, city officials are facing a problem becoming more and more common as America's aging water supply infrastructure, often containing asbestos-laden cement pipes, faces the need for replacement or renewal.
Water On Tap at VT. Beer Festival
For the first time in its 17-year history, the Vermont Brewers Festival featured a tanker truck filled with 4,200 gallons of cool, thirst-quenching liquid: water.
Consumers Don't Buy Water for Health Reasons
Many people seem to have a vague notion that bottled water is healthier than tap, but it is not a major reason that they buy it, a small study finds.
Instapure(R) Donates Water Filtration Systems to Support "Bike To Work Day" and "Green" Mission
Instapure Brands, Inc. announced today it would donate Instapure water filtration systems to "Bike To Work Day" participants on Wednesday, June 24, 2009.
Health Officials Lift Order To Boil Drinking Water In Lomita
After a series of tests, California Health Department officials have lifted a "boil water order" in parts of Lomita, meaning it is now safe to drink and cook with water directly from the tap.
Utility Fined For Spilling Chemicals Into Polhemus Creek, Killing Steelhead Trout
A private utility that provides drinking water to the city of San Mateo has been fined for spilling chemicals into Polhemus Creek, killing more than 30 protected steelhead trout.
Water-Saving Exhibit At Arboretum
There is a new art project at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. This summer, the arboretum is going even greener with a new exhibit about conserving water. Doctors recommend eight glasses of water a day.
Art, Science Meet In A Water Exhibit
ISTANBUL - An interactive presentation to raise awareness on the protection of water resources and its meaning in the world is on display at the Museum of Natural History and Science the Ayazağa campus of Istanbul Technical University. The event was launched as part of the 5th Water Forum
Instapure Has A New Blog
Instapure's new blog is up and ready for viewing. Visit Instapure's blog to see all sorts of information regarding company products, FAQs, informative media, news and other information related to water safety and filtration. Click on the "Full Story" link to visit the new blog.
Fort Lauderdale Chlorinates Drinking Water
Fort Lauderdale will temporarily run free chlorine through its drinking water system beginning at 11 p.m. Saturday through May 23rd.
American Water Confirms Water Quality Is Not Impacted By Swine Flu
American Water Works Company, Inc., the largest investor-owned U.S. water and wastewater utility company, communicated to its customers today that influenza viruses, including swine flu, are effectively removed by filtration and disinfection.
When It Comes To Water, Chris Rock Knows Best
In his latest comedy special, Chris Rock jokes that in America, consumers often create demand for products or services that are free to the public. One of products that Rock highlighted was bottled water - specifically emergence of the multi-billion dollar bottled water industry.
Parents: Bottled Water Trend Poses Threat To Dental Health
Whether consumers drink more bottled water because it is an alternative to soda, or because it is convenient to do so is unclear, but one thing is certain: they are missing out on the valuable fluoride found in tap water, which helps to protect teeth from cavities, according to a study published in the January/February 2009 issue of General Dentistry, the Academy of General Dentistry's (AGD) clinical, peer-reviewed journal.
Bottled Water Carries Hidden Cost To Earth
Compared to a liter of tap water, producing a liter of bottled water requires as much as 2,000 times more energy, according to the first analysis of its kind.
Out West, A New Kind Of Water War
Reporting from Denver -- In rural Chaffee County, Colo., one of the world's largest beverage companies has discovered water it deems fit for a bottle: clean and crisp, with the mountain spring flavor people are willing to pay for.
An Argument For Tap Water
According to Martin Wagner and Jörg Oehlmann from the Department of Aquatic Ecotoxicology at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, an analysis of 20 bottled water brands found that 60 percent are contaminated with estrogenic chemicals, which can disrupt hormonal systems by mimicking estrogen in the body.
Hazards In The Water
Turning on the faucet. Taking a bath. Washing dishes. Seemingly mundane tasks have turned into big headaches for small communities and districts across the state whose shoddy systems drew public health orders.
About World Water Day
Some background information on World Water Day and the activities of IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre related to World Water Day.
EPA Launches “Fix a Leak Week” To Encourage Water Efficiency
Because minor water leaks account for more than 1 trillion gallons of water wasted each year in U.S. homes, EPA is launching its first “Fix a Leak Week” to remind Americans of the environmental and economic benefits to fixing leaks from household plumbing fixtures and irrigation systems.
Lynne Plambeck: Concerns That Shouldn't Be Bottled Up
If you look around hard enough at grocery store sales, you can sometimes buy bottled water in a 12-pack for about the same amount you would pay for an equivalent amount of gas at $3 a gallon.
Water Wars
Yet major multinational corporations such as Nestle are allowed to siphon it up for free—only to sell it back to Californians and others in energy-guzzling plastic bottles likely to end up in landfills or floating off our lovely coastlines. Profit margin: Up to 10,000 percent.
Municipalities Urge Bottled Water Ban
Councillors from Toronto and London, Ont., will meet with representatives of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities this weekend at a meeting in British Columbia to urge members to vote in favour of phasing out bottled water in all Canadian municipalities.
Boil water advisory in effect for Village of Windsor, NY
A water main break has caused the Village of Windsor to issue a boil water advisory for people living near King and Castle streets.
Kevin Bacon is Horrified at Bottled Water Waste
"I'm horrified at the amount of plastic bottles that get thrown away every day"
Drinking Water may Boost Health of Elderly
Since residents at a Suffolk care home were encouraged to increase their intake when a water club was set up last summer, they have felt their overall wellbeing improve, according to the report from Medical News Today.
Access To Safe Drinking Water Should Be Recognised As A Human Right
Access to safe drinking water and to sustainable sanitation should be recognised as a human right, according to a statement at the closing of the water leaders' summit here Thursday.
County Scrambling to Find Source of Water Contamination
Greenville residents and businesses scrambled for information just after noon Wednesday after utilities officials announced a bacterial contamination had been discovered in the city water system during routine water testing.
IEPA Releases 2007 Water Quality Report
ast year's water was quite good, says the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency. The 2007 water quality report indicates that almost 94 percent of Illinois' public water supplies met all federal requirements.
IEPA spokeswoman Maggie Carson says of the nearly 6,000 public water supplies in the state, 783 of them had violations. She says a nearly 94 percent compliance rate is good.
Mayors Say No To Bottled Water
The nation's mayors have voted against spending taxpayer money to buy bottled water, a blow to the beverage industry that has enjoyed growing profit from water sales in recent years.
A majority of about 250 mayors at the U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting in Miami voted to phase out government use of bottled water. That means attendees of city council meetings around the country could more often see pitchers of water instead of clear plastic bottles on the tables of local legislators.
Some Nestle-brand Purified Water Recalled
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the recall of some 1-gallon jugs of Nestle-brand purified drinking water due to possible contamination. The "Nestle Pure Life Purified Drinking Water" was sold in Shop-Rite stores in Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.
Tapped Out, Americans Return To Tap Water
With a day's worth of bottled water - the recommended 64 ounces - costing hundreds to thousands of dollars a year depending on the brand, more people are opting to slurp water that comes straight from the sink.
The lousy economy may be accomplishing what environmentalists have been trying to do for years - wean people off the disposable plastic bottles of water that were sold as stylish, portable, healthier and safer than water from the tap.
Some Businesses Boot Bottled Water
It's a hot summer day, the sun beaming in a cloudless sky. Desert winds send dust devils spinning across a bleached highway. Heat waves blur the landscape until a single object is able to cut through the distortion -- a cold, crystalline bottle of water.
2007 Dec 07 - Earth Policy Institute
Bottled Water Boycotts, Back-to-the-Tap Movement Gains Momentum
From San Francisco to New York to Paris, city governments, high-class restaurants, schools, and religious groups are ditching bottled water in favor of what comes out of the faucet. With people no longer content to pay 1,000 times as much for bottled water, a product no better than water from the tap, a backlash against bottled water is growing.
2007 Aug 31 - Pacific Institute
17 million barrels of oil…
What is the environmental cost of bottling water for U.S. consumption? The New York Times editorial page recently tackled this question, citing a source that found the energy used in bottling alone could power 100,000 cars for a year. Unfortunately, that figure underestimates the energy use by a factor of ten.
How ‘Green’ is That Water
Bottled water is under fire. Environmental groups recently have pointed out that a flourishing industry that sells its product with "green" images of snowcapped mountains and pristine spring lakes in fact contributes substantially to global warming.
In Praise of Tap Water
On the streets of New York or Denver or San Mateo this summer, it seems the telltale cap of a water bottle is sticking out of every other satchel. Americans are increasingly thirsty for what is billed as the healthiest, and often most expensive, water on the grocery shelf. But this country has some of the best public water supplies in the world.
2006 Feb 02 - Earth Policy Institute
BOTTLED WATER: Pouring Resources Down the Drain
The global consumption of bottled water reached 154 billion liters (41 billion gallons) in 2004, up 57 percent from the 98 billion liters consumed five years earlier. Even in areas where tap water is safe to drink, demand for bottled water is increasing—producing unnecessary garbage and consuming vast quantities of energy. Although in the industrial world bottled water is often no healthier than tap water, it can cost up to 10,000 times more. At as much as $2.50 per liter ($10 per gallon), bottled water costs more than gasoline.
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