Tap local resources, not bottled water

Though I didn’t make a formal announcement or send out a mass e-mail, this year I officially decided to kick a couple of bad eco-habits. Plastic grocery bags were first on the list.

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A remote town in south-eastern Australia has become the first place in the world to ban bottled water.

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Nestle is forced to cut back capital expenditures on its bottled water division(s) because of economy and environmental concerns.

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Water is quickly becoming the new oil. It's more scarce, thanks to droughts and waste. And our consumption habits have been called into question. This is the great water debate in three acts.

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Camden council is planning to ban bottled water from all its offices because of its damaging effect on the environment.

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that & there is more money in selling bottled water than providing municipal services that perform a service... Spread Love... ... but wear the Glove! BlueBerry Pick'n can be found @ ThisCanadian "Silent Freedom is Freedom Silenced"

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Thirty years ago, bottled water barely existed as a business in the United States. Last year, we spent more on Poland Spring, Fiji Water, Evian, Aquafina, and Dasani than we spent on iPods or movie tickets--$15 billion. It will be $16 billion this year.

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Bottled water has never gone down smoothly with many environmentalists, who view it as an extravagantly wasteful way of quenching a thirst, but the product is facing criticism from an unexpected source — religious groups.

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As Americans struggle with the idea of oil conservation one Brooklyn woman has taken a different approach. She is illustrating how oil and water do mix in a campaign to change the way New York thinks about water.

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Bottled oxygen business as basic as breathing It sounds a little crazy, but Vancouver entrepreneur Bryce Margetts imagines a world where people carry around personal oxygen dispensers to give themselves a lift or to ward off a headache.

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More than 1.1 billion people lack access to safe drinking water. Many of these people, particularly those in developing countries, increasingly depend on bottled water for their survival.

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Bottled water consumption, which has more than doubled globally in the last six years, is a natural resource that is heavily taxing the world's ecosystem, according to a new US study.

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