State budget is tapped out, but bottled water flows
If you’re going to tackle a half-billion dollar budget drought, you better first be hydrated.
Where’s The Water?
I’m sitting in class trying to ignore the pangs of thirst creeping through my throat. All I want is a long gulp of cool water. My mouth feels like the Sahara Desert. In the middle of class I can’t stand it any longer and leave to find a water fountain.
IBWA Statement Regarding Massachusetts Attorney General Upholding Town Of Concord’s Ban On The Sale Of Bottled Water
The International Bottled Water Association (IBWA) issued the following statement regarding today’s decision by Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley to support banning bottled water sales in Concord.
London 2012: Toasting victories with recyclable PET bottles
In a move to produce the "most sustainable games ever," the London Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) implemented a policy that all beverage packaging must be sold in recyclable PET plastic bottles.
Get the Facts: Bottled Water does not Contribute to Tooth Decay
Let’s be clear about this up front - there is absolutely no correlation between consumption of bottled water and an increase in cavities in adults or children. Even the American Dental Association’s spokesman, Dr. Jonathan Shenkin, makes that fact perfectly clear.
Study: Sports Drink Science Is Self-Serving
Coca-Cola's Powerade is the official Olympic sports drink. The bottles are everywhere, even in the hands of America's biggest stars, from Michael Phelps to Chris Paul.
OUR VIEW: Bottled water offers choice
The first two resolutions that require a municipality to become a Blue Community are obvious – recognizing water as a human right and promoting publicly financed, owned and operated water and wastewater services go without saying...
Bottled Water Gets a Bad Rap
These drink cases are from a local convenience store. There are three cases of all other kinds of flavored drinks compared to one case with water. So why is the bottled water industry vilified?
U.S. Bottled Water Sales Are Booming (Again) Despite Opposition
Despite organized anti-bottled-water campaigns across the country and a noisy debate about bottled water’s environmental impact, Americans are buying more bottled water than ever.
In 2011, total bottled water sales in the U.S. hit 9.1 billion gallons — 29.2 gallons of bottled water per person, according to sales figures from Beverage Marketing Corp.
Concord’s cup of smugness runneth over
What do you call a person who lives in a 6,000 square-foot house and buys a third family car for his teenaged child, but wants to ban the sale of bottled water in order to save the planet?
