by frog
Seems like even the kings of consumerism are coming around on bottled water.
In the States, Pepsi has been forced to admit that the number one US bottled water product, the very swish sounding Aquafina, is in fact tap water. It will start labelling the bottles with ‘PWS’ to indicate that the water comes from a ‘public water source’.
Here’s an interesting piece from last year “The Bottled Water Lie”, and a more recent New York Times editorial here. This column does away with other pristine reservoir myths. Another NY Times piece about restaurants making the shift.
These folk, Corporate Accountability International, run a campaign called ‘Think outside the bottle‘
Published in Environment & Resource Management | Society & Culture by frog on Fri, August 3rd, 2007
Tags: environment
on the trolls and those who are unable to keep on topic
It pays to plug away at issues like the bottled water one Frog, you’ve flagged it before and finally others are catching up. In the south, our water issues are pressing – our rivers are fast becoming ‘brown stream’, not down stream, which is where the drinking water intakes for the towns are and mass conversions to dairying are only just begun. Check out:
http://snowybramble.blogspot.com/
for an on-the-spot commentary of green issues in a far flung part of the universe – Southland!
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a lot of south fwwog might have ideas about the water,
it is being decided now, thers a lot of cows in canterbury fwwog, and they do use enormous water,
and after all that fwwog the product is toxic fwwog,
i told yous bewfore fwwogs yous got 6%,
why dont use gather,
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Water’s becoming the topic of the moment and we can rely on Charlie to jump straight in! Pedersen has flipped his lid…again. This time Charlie threatens to charge the Government for the rain that falls on his farm. Dairy farming Charlie spat the dummy after suggestions by Parlimentary Commisioner for the Environment Jan Wright that dairy farmers could pay for the water they use, in order to encourage efficient use. Charlie doesn’t think so. He topped of his ‘hornets nest’ diatribe with some finger-pointing aimed at people in cities who, ‘see farmers as custodians who look after the rural landscapes, so that they can go for drives on Sundays’.
Rod Oram noticed another of Charlies recent pearls and quotes him in his opinion piece in the SST as saying, ‘It may be that increasing greenhouse gas emissions in New Zealand to produce more food is, overall, a better way to curb climate change’. Y’er a wee beauty Charlie!
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Coming from ChCh i am always appalled to see people hurling huge quantities of plastic water bottles into their supermarket trollies , i always feeling like slapping them over the back of the head and yelling ” drink the water from the bloody tap you moron ! , its FAR better than this crap ”
Just goes to show how gullible people can be, you don’t get better than our water and still they BUY it …sigh .
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Isn’t the plastic used in bottled water bottles full of Bisphenol-A ?
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