Aug 6, 2008
Nutrition notes: All things considered, tap water hard to beat for quenching thirst
We all know that drinking enough liquid is important. But with so many options on the market, the question of what to sip can get confusing. Do vitamin-enriched waters or energy drinks offer an extra bonus? Is bottled water more beneficial than tap water?
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Aug 6, 2008
Why Bottled Water's Tainted
The past few months have seen some radical changes in consumer motivations. Filling up at the gas station is a cause for dread, going to the supermarket has become a gauntlet run and SUVs have gone from hot cars to hot potatoes.
Yet one product has garnered fewer headlines and fallen from grace more precipitously than any other: bottled water. More...
Aug 6, 2008
An Animation of Water Bottle Recycling Rates
This is a sobering video: An Animation of Water Bottle Recycling Rates US consumption of bottled water reached 30 billion bottles per year in 2005! And only 12% were recycled. More...
Aug 5, 2008
Bottled Water: The Height of Stupidity
Bottled water is a joke, one of the biggest consumer and taxpayer ripoffs ever. I applaud California's Attorney General Jerry Brown who said recently that he will sue to block a proposed water-bottling operation in Northern California by Nestle.
Next, Attorneys General everywhere should require recycling of all plastic bottles and containers by requiring deposits to be paid to encourage returns, as is the case with aluminum cans. Not only do society and the environment pay an unfair price for this consumer hoax, but consumers are being hoodwinked. They are paying from 300 to 3,000 times more than the cost of tap water without any benefit. More...
Aug 4, 2008
Do You Drink Bottled Water? Think Twice Before Your Do
Do you want to live in a way that protects thefuture of our children? Do you wish to live in the greenest world possible with a conscience, respect and appreciation for the environment?
Most Americans have a strong sense of social and environmental responsibility. We attempt to make environmentally wise choices in all aspects of our daily living, yet we ignore one of the major contributors to the plight of the planet.
Worldwide in excess of one billion people do not have an uncontaminated source of clean drinking water, this is in excess of 1/6 of the world population, however, as Americans, spend billions of dollars yearly for the convenience of drinking from a plastic bottle instead of a water tap. We should be ashamed. More...
Aug 4, 2008
Bottled Water: consumer stupidity
Bottled water is the biggest consumer/taxpayer ripoff ever. It is also a public scam because of the costs to taxpayers and the environment. Some studies show that the water is no better than tap water (and often is tap water) which means that consumers are really buying bottles that use petroleum and expend huge amounts of energy in their manufacture, transport (water is heavy) and distribution. Then there's the cost of garbage pickup, recycling or burying this junk in landfill sites. More...
Aug 3, 2008
Bottled Water
More and more people are questioning whether the water, and the package it comes in, is safe, or at least safer than tap water — and if the convenience is worth the environmental impact.
Over the past two decades, people have increasingly been shifting to bottled water because they consider it safe, find it refreshing, calorie-free, convenient to carry around, tastier than some tap water and healthier than soft drinks. More...
Jul 31, 2008
Bottled Water is an Environmental Disaster!
ould you like to live in a way that protects our children? S future? Would you like to live in the world greener possible with a conscience, respect and appreciation for the environment? Most Americans have a strong sense of environmental and social responsibility. We strive to make decisions beneficial to the environment in many aspects of our daily lives, however, ignore a major contributor to the plight of the planet. More...
Jul 30, 2008
Few differences between bottled and tap water
People pay plenty for bottled water, but a water quality forum explained it may make more sense to drink directly from the tap.
The battle of bottled versus tap water continues to surge forth out of faucets and containers. The League of Women's Voters held a water quality forum at the West Lafayette Library to clarify the murky waters of the debate.
"The regulations are the same. bottle water doesn't have regulations that are any stricter, so there's no reason to believe it's safer," said Extension Water Quality Specialist, Jane Frankenberger.
Frankenberger explained both products look the same and there's little difference between the two. Public drinking water is regulated and customers receive a report every year showing exactly what chemicals are in the water. Bottled water must meet the same standards, but there's no way for buyers to find out what's inside the plastic. More...
Jul 30, 2008
Do Away With Bottled Water and Go To Tap
Lately, there's been major issue going on here locally where I live, and probably it goes on in a lot of other areas as well. Especially areas where drought and/or shortages are apparent. Bottled water plants. Apparently, regulatory agencies are issuing permits to allow withdrawal of water from the states water sources in the hundreds of thousands of gallons in a yearly basis.
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