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Bottled water distribution and solicitation of such services may soon be a thing of the past in San Francisco-sponsored events, if some city officials have their way. A meeting was held Monday, July 12 to discuss the issue, reported KGO-TV

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If the bottled water industry continues to grow at the rate it has enjoyed the past decade, water fountains may become the new pay phones.  Walk through an airport concourse or public park and most water fountains stand unused.  Why would future new or retrofitted buildings include features, like water fountains that will only be ignored?  Cities that have perfectly fine drinking water, including Seoul and Amsterdam, have few drinking fountains in sight, and this could become true in American cities, too, if bottling companies have their way.

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ScienceNOW reports a new paper by Peter Gleick and Heather Cooley in Environmental Research Letters that compares the energy use of bottled and tapwater

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90 new jobs are to be created over the next three years by a Co Clare based bottled water company.

The Clare Spring Water Company is investing over €4m in the development of what they say is Ireland's first bio-degradable and compostable plastic bottle.

This is a bad idea, it takes far more energy to bottle and transport water than to use water from the tap.

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A small town in Australia has become the first in the world to ban the sale of bottled water.

People in Bundanoon in New South Wales voted in favour of the ban three months ago and since then, chilled filtered water dispensers have been installed throughout the town.

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Tap water in Finland has been found to be significantly purer than bottled drinking water.
A fresh study by the National Public Health Institute indicates that bottled water contains up to 100 times more microbes than the average for tap water. Water in spring water machines contained up to 1,000 times more microbes than tap water. The study found that being kept for a long time in plastic containers significantly weakens the quality of bottled water.

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Venice is successfully converting people from drinking bottled water back to tap water - even offering discounts on carbonators for those who like it fizzy!

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After years of double-digit increases, bottled water sales have stopped rising. Industry analysts say the economy is driving the change, but they also say environmentalists may be having an effect.

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Researchers have calculated that the energy required to produce bottled water is up to 2,000 times more than the energy required to produce tap water.

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Why drinking bottled water is really bad for the environment

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