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Bottled Water even more popular than beer?

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Those eight daily glasses of water you’re supposed to drink for good health? They will cost you $0.00135 — about 49 cents a year — if you take it from a New York City tap. Or, city officials suggest, you could spend 2,900 times as much, roughly $1,400 yearly, by drinking bottled water.

I do feel like saying: “Told you so!”

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July 17th, 2007 at 6:51 am

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Water Gadget

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The newsweek has a report on a little device that is really cheap and supposedly can produce small amounts of clean water.

Written by Claus

June 17th, 2007 at 4:15 am

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More Bottled Water

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Chinese Water

This picture shows Xu Jiehua (r), the wife of the detained Chinese environmental activist Wu Yilong, sitting behind water samples collected by Wu Yilong from Chinese urban rivers and lakes. To me this looks more like popsicle-colors and not like drinking water… hopefully popsicle have different constituents though… Water from Chinese rivers

Celebrity Water

Some people, I think might fall into the category “celebrities”, seem to fall for anything… H2Om is the world’s first “interactive natural spring water” and is infused with the power of positive energy through words, music, colors, symbols, and you. It’s only $34.95 a case. Your choice of: Perfect Health, Love, Prosperity, Gratitude, Will Power, Joy, or Peace. See here, via here

Again Liquid Gummy Bears

On my recent trip to Albuquerque, I had to find out, that the vitaminwater I recently wrote about, in fact is ubiquitous in supermarkets in New Mexico. Who would have thought? And I’ve noticed a lot of people actually drinking it. My only explanation is “good” marketing…

Water Bottles and Waste

The German magazine Der Spiegel has a feature on the waste produced by consuming water from water bottles instead from the tap. The article references the worldwatch institute, but on their webpage I could find only this, which is probably related. The point of the story is that worldwide sales of bottled water have doubled within only years. All these bottles have significant impact on the world’s waste situation.

Written by Claus

May 13th, 2007 at 4:45 am

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Beginning of the End of Bottled Water

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CNN reports on some “evidence” that some parts of society start to realize that bottled water is not the way to go.

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April 28th, 2007 at 4:27 pm

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Holy Drinking Water

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Seriously, Holy Drinking Water! N.B. the warning: If you are a sinner or evil in nature, this product may cause burning, intense heat, sweating, skin irritations, rashes, itchiness, vomiting, bloodshot and watery eyes, pale skin color, and oral irritations.

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March 7th, 2007 at 1:51 pm

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Intensive Rains Lead to Boil-Water Advisory in Vancouver

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Precipitation of 10mm to 15mm per hour for a duration of up to 15hours (about one fifth of SW Ontario’s annual precipitation) lead to extreme flow in surface waters, and is according to the Globe and Mail’s Article cause for turbidity and sediments in the water supply in the greater Vancouver area. Intense precipitation was one of the causes leading to the contaminated water supply in the town of Walkerton in 2001, where seven people died and thousands are still sick (see also CBC’s archives).

Boil Advisory Vancouver

The article also talks about extreme weather conditions (storms with rain) in Toronto and the USA. Is this an example of “increasing occurence of extreme weather conditions” due to warmer average annual temperatures?

Update: See also CBC

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November 17th, 2006 at 3:01 pm

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