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Thu, 04 May 2006

More Bottled Water

Pandora's Bottle: Article by Leif Utne May/June 2006, Utne Magazine

Leif Utne's article is a natural follow-up to a February blog on bottled water. Here's a brief intro:

How uncapping your water opens the floodgates to privatization:

The breaking news on bottled water suggests that it might not be the tall cool drink that ecofriendly, health-conscious consumers seek. Plastic bottles are piling up in landfills as billions of gallons of fossil fuels are used to ship the stuff worldwide. In the United States -- where half of Americans drink bottled water regularly, and one in six avoids the tap entirely -- consumers have been convinced that hitting the bottle is a healthy choice, even though the Environmental Protection Agency does a better job of monitoring what comes from home taps than the Food and Drug Administration does tracking water sold at the grocery store.

Read: Pandora's Bottle