Washington University got a taste of the inconvenience a bottled water ban causes during its graduation ceremony on Friday.
The school has a ban on bottled water sales and distribution on campus, which was temporarily lifted for commencement, the St. Louis Post Dispatch said. WashU spokeswoman Sue McGinn told reporter…
Woman’s Day magazine doesn’t buy the bottled water backlash. It does, however, buy bottled water, just like the millions of others around the globe who do so. Health or fashion sense, bottled water is the trend these days, the magazine says.
Florida legislators took the right course of action by voting down a tax increase on bottled water, which would have unfairly singled out one of many industries that use plastic packaging. Bottled Water Matters applauds lawmakers for striking this potentally damaging legislation.
Seems you can’t be the world’s most popular guy and get away with anything these days.
President Obama was “caught,” as the Huffington Post makes it seem, drinking bottled water at the G20 summit in London this week. Let’s say he was drinking a sugar-heavy beverage: would the online newspaper think Obama was saying he didn’t care about childhood obesity?
Was it too difficult? Did it make life more inconvenient? Possibly that too, but the reasons for Lawrence, Mass. schools cutting back its ban on bottled beverages, including water, were worse, according to WBZ-TV…
This week, the United Nations Children’s Fund, or UNICEF, is encouraging people to pay $1 for tap water at restaurants around the world. Each dollar donated to the project will provide 40 liters of drinking water, or enough to supply clean water for one child for a month – or 40 kids a day.
A Letter to the Editor, from the Recorder & Times in Ontario, Canada: We are being told to ban bottled water because large companies make huge profits, use energy to produce bottles and only about 15 per cent of bottles get recycled, the balance end up in landfills.
“To the industry they condemn: bottled water,” this video from the Competitive Enterprise Institute states…
Featured Videos This cool video shows how bottled water is a very small and very efficient water user that spares people of billions of calories when they choose to drink water over other packaged drinks.
