http://enjoybottledwater.org Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:50:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Dana Milbank has a great piece in the Washington Post today about recent congressional hearings on bottled water. He notes: "The nation is entangled in two wars, a deep recession and a flu pandemic, and the people's representatives are hard at work investigating the menace of . ... http://enjoybottledwater.org/?p=620 Cities around the nation are spending thousands in taxpayer dollars to promote tap water because of the alleged environmental problems with bottled water. But these campaigns just go to show how silly the issue has become. Minneapolis recently dropped $75,000 just to build a website encouraging people to ... http://enjoybottledwater.org/?p=603 New York Gov. David A. Paterson has jumped on anti-bottled water bandwagon by issuing an executive order halting state-agency purchases of bottled water—claiming to save significant amounts of money and landfill space. Agencies may no longer provide bottled water to workers either via five-gallon jugs for coolers or single ... http://enjoybottledwater.org/?p=592 Cheers to Bill Nemitz for his very insightful piece "Enough Water: Let's Figure it Out" in the Portland Press Herald. He showed that the amount of water that Poland Spring would have purchased for $900,000 from the Kennebunk, Kennebunkport and Wells Water Districts represents 0.14 percent of ... http://enjoybottledwater.org/?p=584 This says it all: Green groups held a "reverse tea party" by dumping bottled water (minus the bottles of course) into the Boston Harbor. Why? They don't like private enterprise or private water provision. They want the government to take more of your hard-earned dollars ... http://enjoybottledwater.org/?p=568 Apparently, Mayor Newsom--one of the first lawmakers to condemn bottled water and bar government agencies from buying it--has a separate standard for himself! A partially empty case of bottled water was recently discovered in his car. Supposedly, the water belonged to his security detail. But a spokesman for the Mayor ... http://enjoybottledwater.org/?p=530 Major New Study For the past couple decades, bottled water had been growing in popularity as an environmentally preferred choice and as a healthy beverage alternative. Yet in recent years, environmental activists have begun attacking its value and quality. The activists’ claims do not hold water, yet, based on those claims, ... http://enjoybottledwater.org/?p=475 Environmentalist activists must certainly mean well. But, at times, some are so silly that all you can do is laugh. Consider a recent Tree Hugger post comparing bottled water to orange juice and its lament about carbon footprints! The post points out that orange juice has an ... http://enjoybottledwater.org/?p=465 We know that bottled water is helpful to humans during a natural disaster, but did you know it's an aid to wildlife? Today's Washington Express newspaper has on its cover a picture of a firefighter in Australia giving bottled water to an injured koala bear! It warms the ... http://enjoybottledwater.org/?p=446 You gotta love it. I searched the greenie website Tree Hugger today for the term “bottled water.” Guess what came up on the top of the page? Google ads for Deer Park and other bottled water! You gotta love capitalism! Apparently, the value of advertising revenue knows no ideology. What’s ... http://enjoybottledwater.org/?p=438