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The Fiscal Times: The weekend’s election results in France and Greece have added to the uncertainty surrounding the future of the European Union ...
The Fiscal Times: The weekend’s election results in France and Greece have added to the uncertainty surrounding the future of the European Union ...
Posted 05.08.2012
For most of us, Drinking Water Week means swapping soda for H20 and making sure we fill up on our daily 64-ounce requirement. But while we make a c...
Bill Chameides | Posted 05.03.2012
AP | CANDICE CHOI | Posted 04.17.2012
NEW YORK — The Coca-Cola Co. is continuing to expand its reach worldwide and turning to a variety of smaller drink sizes to boost profits and ke...
David Macaray | Posted 04.13.2012
One of the biggest con games going on right now is the sustained attack on the U.S. public school system. It's being perpetrated by predatory entrepr...
Posted 03.15.2012
We're really struggling for words after watching this ad for Lithuanian Vytautas mineral water -- the water for "men who can handle the raw awesomenes...
Reuters | Posted 05.12.2012
(Adds details, comments on tea) By Martinne Geller and Carey Gillam CHICAGO, March 12 (Reuters) - Consumers are shunning...
Anna Brones | Posted 03.07.2012
It's time for a change, and change this year is going to start with your sparkling water cellar. Isn't that refreshing? At the very least, it will add some effervescence to your everyday routine.
Avital Binshtock | Posted 02.20.2012
Eva Longoria, who plays the self-involved Gabrielle Solis on ABC's Desperate Housewives, takes on extracurricular projects that set her far apart from her shallow onscreen persona.
Posted 12.05.2011
Many bottled water producers make silly health claims for their products. There's Smart Water, which claims to improve brain function despite being no...
The Hairpin | Posted 01.03.2012
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Sloan Barnett | Posted 12.14.2011
Most of us, thank goodness, don't get sick right away when we drink tap water. But it's the long-term effects of very small amounts of contaminants that are troubling.
Peter H. Gleick | Posted 12.06.2011
There is a growing movement of universities, restaurants, municipalities, and even states to stop buying bottled water, especially when tap water is available. The latest battleground state is Maryland.
Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff | Posted 11.27.2011
Bottled water costs very little to produce, yet very much to consume: An individual's five-year supply of bottled water can cost more than $1,000, versus $1.65 if she drank from the tap.
Posted 11.23.2011
Don't worry, this black water (not Blackwater) isn't actually sludge -- it's just water enhanced with humic and fulvic acid (biodegration of dead orga...
Forbes.com | Posted 10.11.2011
Research has shown that minorities consume bottled water more often than white Americans, and spend a greater proportion of their income (about 1%, co...
HuffingtonPost.com | Tom Zeller Jr. | Posted 08.23.2011
The International Bottled Water Association on Wednesday took on what it described as a "a myth repeated by some anti-bottled water activists that bot...
Posted 08.21.2011
Would you pay five dollars for a glass of water if the water came from a $6000 Italian-made system that filtrates, chills and carbonates tap water? If...
Peter H. Gleick | Posted 08.09.2011
There is new and growing evidence that the failure to provide safe drinking water, or the fear (or reality) of contamination in tap water that forces people to buy bottled water, imposes special financial burdens on poor and minority communities.
Brandon Boyd | Posted 06.13.2011
The word 'Sustainability' is quite evocative isn't it? Not so much so as words like, 'Murder', 'Socialist', 'Sex' or 'Religion'. But what it shares with these other rabble rousing terms is that it evokes something different in each person the word is fired at.
AP | By SHINO YUASA and TOMOKO A. HOSAKA | Posted 05.25.2011
TOKYO -- Shops across Tokyo began rationing goods – milk, toilet paper, rice and water – as a run on bottled water coupled with delivery disruptio...
Wallet Pop | Ian N. Nguyen | Posted 05.25.2011
Consumer history is littered with products, gadgets and items that consumers love to love, only to later hate them. Remember margarine, the Atkins Die...
Saul Garlick | Posted 05.25.2011
Hydros is more than a company -- it is an investor in solving the global water crisis. We should all take the extra step and buy bottles that provide an extra layer of safety and health.
mynorthwest.com | Posted 05.25.2011
Some schools have banned junk food or soda, but one local university says no to bottled water. The only place you'll find water on the Seattle Univ...
Michael McGown | Posted 05.25.2011
There are great cleaning products available today that don't need any more water than what is available from your own tap.
The Fiscal Times | Suzanne McGee | Posted 05.08.2012