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…
Is banning bottled water really in the best interests, if jobs are lost and more money is spent to do so? From the Toronto Sun…
Daniel Hamermesh, a writer for the Freakonomics blog at the New York Times, writes this month about the foolishness of banning bottled water on a university campus…
Alarming new statistics from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP) indicate that 34% of Americans are obese, just under 6% are extremely or morbidly obese, and another 32.7% are considered overweight, according to data from a report released January 9, 2009, by CDCP’s National Center for Health Statistics in Rockville, MD.
If Obama does it, it’s gotta be cool. From the Orlando Sentinel:
Bottled water and bottled iced tea are often seen in the hand of President-elect Barack Obama. Bottled water is a natural hydrator and makes sense for the First-Exerciser.
In August, the city of St. Louis joined one of a very few others around the country to ban bottled water in government offices. But according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch…
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.
