Bottled Water Facts

"Those ubiquitous plastic water bottles have been increasingly vilified in recent years. Los Angeles, San Francisco and Santa Barbara, among others, have banned them from purchase with city funds. A few trendsetting restaurants, and even some markets and hotels, have banned them too. The trend...  

There has always been a raging debate as to whether bottled water is safe to drink or not. In recent years the number of plastic water bottles has increased ...  

Those ubiquitous plastic water bottles have been increasingly vilified in recent years.  

City hall is moving to get rid of bottled water on city premises and is targeting not only plastic water bottles, but also large water coolers.  

To all who drink bottled water: drink tap water instead. In recent studies, it has become clear that drinking from the tap is better than drinking bottled water because of the toxins that can be released from ...  

In her testimony before the subcommittee responsible for drinking water quality, NRDC attorney Mae Wu will stress that Americans have the right to know what toxic chemicals and other contaminants are in their ...  

By Jeff Nagel - Burnaby NewsLeader Published: October 08, 2008 3:00 PM Updated: October 08, 2008 3:36 PM Metro Vancouver will push on with a campaign to get people to switch from bottled water to tap water ...  

It likely shouldn't come as a surprise that city hall has issued a report outlining what it wants to do to end provision of bottled water in city-run facilities, for its employees and for the public.  

The Central Basin Municipal Water District, a public agency that wholesales imported water to cities and private companies, said it offered Downey bottled water and commended the city for 'undergoing stringent ...  

The American Red Cross has provided several cases of bottled water to help alleviate the water shortage in Mt.  

Whether you sip it from the ol' office water cooler or countless little plastic bottles that you stash everywhere for convenience, odds are, bottled water plays some part in your life. For millions ...  

The battle over the testing and safety of bottled water landed on Capitol Hill Wednesday, as a Senate subcommittee on held a hearing on the quality and environmental impact of bottled water.  

President and CEO of the International Bottled Water Association Joe Doss told a US Senate subcommittee during a September 10 hearing on quality and environmental impacts of bottled water that "any actions that ...  

Eight elementary and high schools here are providing bottled water to students after elevated levels of lead were detected in the buildings' drinking water, according to a September 3 article in The Community ...  

When the city of London, Ontario banned bottled water, Refreshments Canada lamented "a real missed opportunity to do something positive for the environment." Come again? It seems London passed up " a chance to ...