This is great! Take the time to watch this really interesting, quite funny, video from Penn & Teller about Bottled Water.
It’s not new news that we all need to drink a lot of water each day just to sustain and invigorate our bodies and minds. But there is new ways you can help remind yourself to drink the water this year!
1. Water Aid, a charity from the UK, has created 2 software programs to help remind and alert you to drink more water. One is a screen saver that reminds you to drink water while you are working and the other is an alarm that will alert you when you need to drink water. You can download both programs from their website.
2. In the world of ridiculous iPhone apps, here is one that actually makes you feel better! “Water Your Body” is a water calculator that tells you how much water you need to drink and keeps tabs on how much you have had to drink. The icon shows how many more glasses you need each day to stay fully hydrated.
3. In addition, TapIt has created an iPhone app that will show you where there is free water refills. Right now it is only applicable in New York City, San Francisco and Portland, but good information to have and hopefully they will expand to more cities as more people enter information on the TapIt website.
Almost half of House of Representatives offices have started a green makeover that includes modest steps such as printing on double-sided paper, faxing electronically and using filtered rather than bottled water, a new report says.
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What a great way to start 2010, with a new portable water bottle! And when we say portable, we mean portable! This water bottle can fit and fold into almost any space!
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Students at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, are doing their part to help reduce their plastic footprint by initiating a campus-wide plastic bottle plan this winter.
In a typical year, Brown University distributes as many as 250,000 bottles of water on campus. After some students started campaigning against using the bottles, the total dropped by 40,000.
By this time next year, some students hope the total will be zero.
That is the goal of the Beyond the Bottle Campaign, a student-run effort to eliminate bottled water on campus.
With the New Year quickly approaching, people are going to start making and implementing their grand 2010 New Year’s Resolutions. Ultimately a lot of people will choose to “be healthier”, which is a great resolution but people tend to fall off the “healthy” wagon (hence why so many make new commitments each year to it). But being healthy can be super easy if you make your number one health goal to DRINK LOTS OF WATER!
Water is an understated, underrated, underappreciated necessary nutrient because hydration is so important to the functionality of the human body. Water helps with digestion, removes toxins (get rid of the toxic pumpkin pie sitting in your gut), cushions joints (as you start your new workout routine), controls body temperature and most importantly helps with mental performance (like, duh).
It’s been estimated that up to 80% of the U.S. adult population goes through their normal day in at least a mildly dehydrated state. And, if one reports for work, school or life dehydrated, the odds of that circumstance improving during the day aren’t very good. In addition, dehydration can be masked in hunger pains so when a person feels hungry it could just be the body screaming for water. So hydrate, hydrate, hydrate with tap water and reusable water bottles – your body, mind and landfills will thank you!
Recently several groups have called the governement out on the carpet about their frivilous spending on bottled water. Corporate Accountability International cited that in 2008 state agencies spent over $525,000 on bottled water 5-gallon jugs. While smaller cities and towns service fewer people, their cost could be less than $100. But it still begs the question – how are we supposed to feel good about our water if the government doesn’t even drink the tap water?!? Leading by example is always the first step when trying to help initiate Ban the Bottle campagins. Take San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Chicago, St. Louis and Seattle – all have lead by example and made it illegal to spend government money on bottled water. Support your public water system – ban the bottle!
Read the entire article here – http://www.tauntongazette.com/news/regional/x1439500979/Group-criticizes-state-for-spending-more-than-500-000-on-bottled-water
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