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Bottled Water: The Healthy, Environmentally Friendly Drink

Bottled Water: The Healthy, Environmentally Friendly Drink

Whether you drink it to quench your thirst or use it to wash your laundry, water is an indispensable part of our lives and our world.

It’s also an indispensable part of a healthy diet. That’s why more and more Americans are choosing to increase their water intake. In 2015, the average American drank 36.5 gallons of bottled water — a 7.9 percent increase over the previous year.

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Bottled water sales ban policy at America’s national parks causes controversy: denies visitors the option to make healthy beverage choice

Bottled water sales ban policy at America’s national parks causes controversy: denies visitors the option to make healthy beverage choice

A National Park Service (NPS) policy that allows individual parks to ban the sale of bottled water, but not other less-healthy drinks also packaged in plastic –– soft drinks, sports drinks, juice drinks, and other sugary packaged beverages –– denies park visitors the simple option of buying the healthiest packaged drink on the shelf, while at the same time making readily available a broad selection of unhealthy drinks packaged in heavier plastic bottles and which use more water to make.

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Unhealthy Drinks to Avoid

Unhealthy Drinks to Avoid

Avoiding certain beverages can help you avoid unnecessary calories. This article identifies how a simple trip to the supermarket can easily lead you into a calorie-rich mine field even though you’re being ever so careful.

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Go Green, Use Blue

The city of Hartford, Conn. will introduce a new pilot program called “Go Green Use Blue.” The program will include using single-stream recycling project, and will work in conjunction with RecycleBank’s incentive program.

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Correcting the record on Fannin County, Georgia

A recent article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution addresses aquifer and well depletion in Fannin County, Georgia.  Unfortunately, blame is placed on the shoulders of the bottled water componaies that do honest business in the county.

A focus on bottled water singles out the bottled water industry from among the thousands of industrial water users.  This scrutiny does nothing to protect and preserve renewable groundwater resources, nor does it help to arrive at an effective water policy.

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Going off on the water debate in Connecticut

Alexandria, Virginia – In his blog yesterday, Connecticut Post Capitol reporter Ken Dixon took a critical look at legislation introduced in that state’s General Assembly that would ban bottled water purchase and bottled water cooler contracts by state government agencies. 

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What Is Behind The Bottled Water Home Cooler Craze?

More and more people in this country are bypassing the water fountain and opting to drink bottled water instead. This growing trend has been responsible for an explosion of bottled water varieties available on the market today. Many people have even stopped drinking the water from their kitchen faucets and have installed bottled water home coolers. Is this just another crazy fad, or there actually a good reason to switch from tap water to bottled water?

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