Nice post at taracronica.com: The Bottled Water Fairytale

November 29th, 2009
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Tara Cronica is about exploring the never ending desires that fuel all life while finding lyrical beauty in everyday happenings - a site created by three Canadian women with alot of smart things to say.  One of them, Bonnie Johnson posted "The Bottled Water Fairytale" on November 28th, with links to Bundanoon, the Australian town that has gone bottled water free and Tapped, the wonderful documentary we have recommended here before.

Here's an excerpt:

"My husband grumbles about how wrong it is to have to pay for water.  “Water belongs to every creature on our planet, it shouldn’t be a commodity that people profit from, and it’s all just bottled tap water anyway” – is his usual spiel.  “No it isn’t! It comes from the glacier fed pristine mountain-top natural springs  of …of…somewhere beautiful and untouched by man” is my highly intelligent come back as I pass the guy over the counter a fiver and get only a few nickels and dimes in change back.

So this post is for my husband.  You are right.  I’ll say it again, you are right and I should not have doubted you, wise man.  Lap it up because this may not happen again.

I’ve just discovered that my beloved Dasani bottled water, that I swore on my mother’s life, was glacier pure and sent from the magic natural spring fairies, is indeed just bottled tap water.  (You may want to be extra careful crossing the street Mom)."

....and goes on:

"It was after watching the trailer for the documentary ‘Tapped’ and perusing the movies official website that I discovered Dasani (bottled by Coca-Cola) uses filtered municipal tap water.  As does Pepsi’s Aquafina by the way.  Then they charge us 1900 times the cost of that tap water.  Bottled water costs more than gasoline!! I also learned that only 20% of the plastic bottles used for water are ever recycled and that it takes up to 1000 years for a plastic water bottle to biodegrade in the landfill.  Plus –  BPA (Bisphenol – A) is what those large 5 gallon water cooler jugs are made out of.  Y’all know the danger to exposure of BPA by now I hope."

Thanks Bonnie, and your partners at Taracronica.com.  Nice site, nice post. There are millions of people still buying bottled water, which means millions of people we still need to convince to make small changes in their lifestyles to reduce bottled water use whenever possible!

BundanoonBundanoon

 

 

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Bottled Water Spring to Tap Australia

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http://Chih20water.com. Our Bottled Water Mission: Rehydrate, Reuse, Recycle: This following information is included on the PET bottle's label: 'Planet health - please re-use smart bottle daily for one week then be world smart & recycle'. The following information is included on the website: To help your wellness and the planet's please extend the ChiH20 BloodJuice label’s bio-water effect by re-filling bottle with ‘clean' or tap water and drinking for 7 days. Bottled water is not going away so Chih20 (AWBI certified Australian bottle spring water) was quietly launched late December 09. Our closest city has legislated to include fluoride in the tap water but undisclosed documents and subsequent Government admissions state the drinking dose of fluoride has been varying between 300 times over and under for the last 6 months and the dose is still not correct. Leaked documents also exposed untreated sewerage being released into 'grey water' recycled drinking pipeline and also into our main water storage areas. Chih20 difference: 'Its in the label' (Int. Patent Pending) is a statement that allows no carbon footprint re importing or exporting or internal transportation as the 600ml bottle label can be reproduced under licence using any 'clean' i.e. spring or tap water anywhere in the world to produce Chih20 natural bio-water. I was lucky to be born and bred in a pristine coastal/hinterland area in Australia and have drank from streams, bores, springs, tanks and town tap water all my 'green' and healthy life and therefore am not a 'Johnny-come-lately enviro corporate suit or 'new age hippie'. I understand what I need: 'I need more from my water (bottled and tap) that what is being offered in the world today, so Chih20 was born to put back what has been taken out by processing, magnetic ions. S. McMullen Founder/Director

In recent years, water has

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In recent years, water has given the companies a huge lift in their overall volumes sold, an indicator watched closely by Wall Street. But the beverage makers haven't seen a big jump in earnings, in part because of their sizable investment in the water business, said Bill Pecoriello, CEO of ConsumerEdge Research LLC. The price wars aggravate a continuing problem, The bottling companies rely on single-serve bottles sold in vending machines and coolers for much of their profit margin on bottled water, but with those sales down, they are also struggling to make water profitable, he commercial carpet said.Some analysts predict the price of bottled water could fall even further by next summer, as PepsiCo absorbs its two biggest bottlers and makes expected changes to lower its delivery costs. Pepsi declined to comment on its plans.Bottled-water makers caution that the low prices are promotional and average normal retail prices for their 24-packs haven't fallen as drastically. Bargains before holidays like Labor Day are common,