Jun 23, 2009
DO YOU BUY BOTTLED WATER?
• It's a rip-off — big time.
Coca-Cola was forced to admit in 2004 that Dasani is just tap water. Nestle's has had to add “Public Water Source” to the label of their Pure Life brand.
The upshot is that you pay multiple times more for a product that is available to you at minimal cost from the faucet in your kitchen. More...
Jun 16, 2009
Restaurants pull bottled water from menu; bad news for drink companies?
One of the great marketing triumphs of the late 20th century was bottled water. Turning a commodity into a retail product uncapped huge revenue for companies such as Coca-Cola (NYSE:KO) and Pepsico (NYSE:PEP). The question now, however, is how fragile is the business? A troubling trend has top restaurants taking bottled water off of their menus due to environmental concerns. More...
Jun 9, 2009
FDA Says No to E.coli in Bottled Water. Really!?!
WASHINGTON — The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has amended federal regulations regarding bacteria in bottled water, publishing in the May 29 Federal Register a final rule establishing a zero tolerance for E. coli bacteria in bottled water.
The International Bottled Water Association (IBWA) on May 28 announced its long-standing support of a zero-tolerance standard of quality for E.coli. More...
Jun 8, 2009
Give up the bottle, not water, ‘back-to-tap’ advocates urge
Can't bring a plastic water bottle into work anymore? You're not alone.
According to the Polaris Institute, to date there are 27 municipalities from six provinces that have implemented restrictions on bottled water in city facilities. And that's only in Canada; various other cities in the United States, Europe and Australia are also placing bans on the highly popular plastic water bottle and mounting promotions to go “back to tap.”
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May 23, 2009
Toxic BPA linked with bottled water
It may be time to switch back to drinking from the tap. A recent study has confirmed that water bottles made with bisphenol A (BPA) significantly raise BPA levels in people who drink out of them. More...
May 19, 2009
An Anthropologist’s View of Disposable Water Bottles … From the Future
We found this video about how a future civilization would look back upon our behavior of using disposable water bottles. It's a bit cheeky, but makes a great point – how is it we make such bad decisions in the present-tense when we can project how unhealthy, inefficient, and downright dumb they are. Use REUSABLE WATER BOTTLES!!! Our tap water is held to higher standards than the bottling industry (we wrote about this in our previous post Bottled Water and Tap Water – The Differences and Similarities.) More...
May 13, 2009
Bottled or Tap—Water Quality in the United States
As bottled water steadily replaces the consumption of tap water, fewer people bother to question its level of quality.
According to the Think Outside the Bottle Campaign, “Bottled water corporations use clever marketing and misleading advertising that makes people doubt the safety and quality of their own tap water. In reality, bottled water is less regulated than public water systems.” More...
May 5, 2009
NY to end bottled water purchases
Gov. David Paterson is telling state agencies to cut spending and help the environment by switching from bottled to tap water, lending momentum to a national movement to wean Americans from their water bottles.
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May 4, 2009
BOTTLED WATER DO WE NEED IT
Bottled Water costs more than $1.50 per bottle. That is 1,900 times the price of tap water, which means bad news for your WALLET - an average US citizen spends over $400 every year on bottled water.
HEALTH - can be damaged by toxic chemicals like Bisphenol-A(BPA), leached from bottled water. BPA intake can also cause Cancerous Cells in your body.
ENVIRONMENT - is tainted by the production, transportation, packaging and disposal of plastic bottled water. More...
May 1, 2009
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH: STOP OVERPAYING FOR STUFF
Bottled water has become the new fur coat. Read: gauche. Tres gauche. But if you're still buying it, you're overpaying. According to the Environmental Working Group, their bottled-water study revealed that bottled water can contain chemicals never tested for safety, and may be no cleaner than tap water. Use a water filter and a reusable container instead. More...
