Cocaine, Spices and Hormones Now Found in Drinking Water

By: Natural News
(NaturalNews) A University of Washington research team recently released the results of a study it conducted on contaminant residue in the waters of Puget Sound in Washington State. Various spices, flavorings and other substances are being identified as making their way out of water treatment plants and back into the world’s water supply. [...]

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A World of Reasons to Ditch Bottled Water

By: TreeHugger
Bottled water manufacturers’ encourage the perception that their products are purer and safer than tap water. Bottled water can cost up to 10,000 times more per gallon than tap water. But the reality is that tap water is actually held to more stringent quality standards than bottled water, and some [...]

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Water Scarcity: The Greatest Crisis Most Americans Have Never Heard Of

BY STEVEN SOLOMON

“When the well is dry, we learn the worth of water,” Benjamin Franklin quipped wisely over two centuries ago, long before it seemed conceivable that freshwater could become scarce across the planet or anyone imagined the need for an Earth Day.
Today, for the first time in human history, the global well is [...]

Only 91 Out of 60,000 Chemicals Actually Regulated In US Tap Water

(NaturalNews) It has been so long since the federal law regulating tap water has been updated that since 2004, more than one-fifth of the U.S. population has consumed tap water that the government classifies as toxic, but still approves for human consumption.“People don’t understand that just because water is technically legal, [...]

What’s More Important Than Oil? Water …The New Oil.

What’s More Important Than Oil?
That’s the question I first asked myself which led me to write “Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization” (Harper Collins January 2010). I had read Dan Yergin’s wonderful history of oil, “The Prize”, and began contemplating what other natural resource might be shaping our [...]

By: Business Wire

New Dewpointe Atmospheric Water System Provides Cleanest Drinking Water on the Market – Makes Water out of Air

The 11-Stage Filtration-System Removes 99.99 Percent of Contaminants for Unmatched Water Purity

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SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Atmospheric [...]

Quenching a Nation’s Thirst – Making Water From Air!

Bottled water is everywhere these days and has become a multibillion dollar business. You can’t escape their presence anywhere, whether at a grocery store, convenience store, the beach, work place, home, etc, bottled water is there. The overall success that the bottled water industry has experienced, and the enormous profits [...]

Fortune’s Brainstorm Green Conference

By: CNNMoney.com
Water: The most undervalued resourcePosted by Steve Hargreaves, staff writerApril 13, 2010 9:52 PM
Water…it sustains all life.
Yet consider this: Worldwide, 80 countries suffer from water shortages, including highly productive agricultural areas in northern China, the western United States, and northwest India.
Four thousand children under the age of five die each day from water-born diseases. [...]

FACTBOX: Key facts about water in the US West

Wed Mar 11, 2009 4:56am EDT
(Reuters) – The West has been one of the United States’ fastest-growing regions, with its warm, dry climate a major draw. But much of its landscape is desert or semi-arid and many of its cities are facing a long-term water supply crisis.
U.S.  |  Green Business
Here are some facts and figures:
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A Better Vintage of Tap Water

By: Wall Street Journal
The war for your tap—and shower, ice maker and water bottle—is on.
Manufacturers are pitching a bevy of new products that filter water in the home promising to deliver everything from safer sipping and bathing, to more youthful skin.
With concerns mounting about tap-water purity, there are a slew of new products on the [...]

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