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(by McCloud Watershed Council  Thursday Feb 26th, 2009 10:40 AM)       After promising to scale down their water bottling facility, Nestle representatives try another approach into McCloud's Mt. Shasta aquifer, a slightly scaled down version of the same bottling plant. During times of drought and increasing demands on the Sacramento River's water, can CA afford to sell of the source of the North state's main water supply?

While the focus of this article is on the financial benefits of the bottle bill, we think expanding the deposit law to cover water bottles is a positive step toward increasing awareness of the negative impact of water bottles on our environment.  The deposit has been .05 per bottle for 30 years - isn't it time to increase the amount now?  And who knew that the unclaimed deposit money was being kept by the soda distributors?  The State of Connecticut, its towns and communities should receive those funds and use the money for environmental projects - how about alternatives to bottled water

United Arab Emirates is making a huge impact on recycling.  Could we do this in the USA?  Who will lead?  (Story

An attempt to sue PepsiCo for misrepresenting that Aquafina water comes from a pure mountain spring and not from public water supplies has been defeated by federal pre-emption.

Plaintiffs in multidistrict litigation claimed they believed that the iconic picture of mountains with a red-orange sun behind them on the label accompanied by the slogan "Pure Water-Perfect Taste" meant that bottled water came from a pure stream. But they lost out because the federal Food and Drug Administration defines purity and Aquafina fits its definition.

Under fire for its mismanagement of water resources in India, Coke has gone all out to create an image of itself as a leader in water conservation.

By Amit Srivastava, India Resource Center. Reprinted from Alternet.