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Cross-posted from Triple Pundit by Kristin Urquiza. We’re on the verge of the next wave of national parks going bottled water free. Today, a broad coalition led by Corporate Accountability International is providing the grassroots support for four...

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The city of Aspen is preparing to spend about $20,000 on reusable water bottles and another $9,400 on filling stations in an effort to promote the drinking of municipal tap water over the plastic-bottled variety....

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Celebrate National Drinking Water Week!

May 6, 2011 | 0 Comments

May 1- 7 is National Drinking Water Week Did you know? - In the United States, water utilities treat nearly 34 billion gallons of water      every day -  In the United States and...

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Do you really know what is inside bottled water?

January 26, 2011 | 1 Comments

That bottled water you’re drinking could have come from a faucet the next town over or from a company with a history of bacterial contamination. But you wouldn’t know that from the label, according to...

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Bottled Water Wars Heat up In California

August 23, 2010 | 0 Comments

Bill would tell state how much of its water goes to bottlers Does the state have a right to know where its water is going? Major multinational corporations such as Nestle are allowed to siphon...

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Plastic Bag Usage Dropped in DC

July 15, 2010 | 0 Comments

In January, Washington DC added a $.05 tax on plastic bags in order to attempt to reduce plastic waste. The tax ended up having 2 great outcomes – 1) the number of plastic bags used...

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Best of the Best – Tap Water Taste Test

June 23, 2010 | 0 Comments

The American Water Works Association (AWWA) held a Best of the Best – Tap Water Taste Test yesterday at their annual conference in Chicago.  This is the 5th year that the AWWA has held the...

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Massachusetts Town Bans Bottled Water

May 5, 2010 | 0 Comments

Concord, MA, has become the first municipality in the country to ban all sales of bottled water at a recent town meeting.  ”All these discarded bottles are damaging our planet,” said Jean Hill, “causing clumps...

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