BBC Spends $607,000 A Year On Bottled Water

The British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC, spends £406,000 ($607,000) of taxpayers' money on water every year, according to the british newspaper the Guardian. BBC released the information as a response to a freedom of information request. The money is used to buy large...

Can Superhydrophobic Cloth resist Hot Water?

It is now possible that our clothes are water-free especially when it rains. "The superhydrophobic effect is also present in natural surfaces such as lotus leaves. They got waxy hydrophobic coating and spiky surface texture that traps air beneath the water droplets. That goes...

Bundanoon: First Bottled Water Ban in the World

Bundanoon, Australia, has become the first town in the world to ban bottled water. John Dee, the director of Do Something, an environmental group that helped bring about a plastic bag ban in Tasmania, confirmed that...

Are We Killing Ourselves With Water?

It's funny how the mind works. I've always thought that I prefer bottled water to tap water, and prefer the water that pours from the door of my refrigerator to bottled water. An interesting and somewhat disturbing...

Kicking the Bottled Water Habit at Chez Panisse and Blue Plate

Since I never visited the Bay Area, I cannot pretend having first hand impressions on either restaurants.I did find out thanks to Kicking the bottle by Tracey Taylor (FT, November 1st) that a number of restaurants including these 2 are now serving filtered tap water.Tracey...

Will Tapped Out Consumers Go Back to Tap and Drop Bottled Water?

Is credit crunch forcing people to change their drinking habits? Will tapped out consumers go back to tap? On June 17, Tapped Out Consumers Spurn Bottled Water (CBS News, AP) crunched the numbers and here they are: "Even a 24-pack of half-liter bottles at Costco Wholesale...

Enjoy Your Bottled... Tap Water?

Bottled water is all the rage right now despite growing concerns about its effect on the environment and the water quality. A group in New York City has come up with a partial solution: Don't replace bottles, fill...

The Demise of Bottled Water?

A decade ago, Jim Hairston was a lonely voice crying out in the wilderness. Few people heeded his warnings about the pitfalls associated with bottled water, a product that at the time was beginning its steady...

Bottled Water: Up to $7.50 a Gallon...Gas Unleaded: $2.20...Are we pouring mo...

Turning water into gold, a marketer's dream...Is bottled water a waste of money?

Joseph Q. Bretz Named Tap Water’s President of Interactive Media

Joseph Q. Bretz has joined Tap Water Entertainment – the innovative film and television Production Company based in Austin, Texas – as president of interactive media. A well-respected veteran video, music and digital-media producer and entrepreneur, Bretz will team with...

Hot and cold running beer...

"Reuters - A woman thought she was in heaven when beer instead of water flowed from the taps in her apartment in west Norway."

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