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...
created by Annina Bergman | 12 wks ago | updated 12 wks ago 128 views | 28 recommendations | 3 comments
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, 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...
created by cyn.khoo | 17 wks ago | updated 17 wks ago 845 views | 14 recommendations | 2 comments
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...
opinion by Swan | 33 wks ago | updated 33 wks ago 1001 views | 78 recommendations | 24 comments
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...
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...
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...
created by Jason Sanders | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 1172 views | 8 recommendations | 24 comments
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...
created by ACES-wikiman | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 320 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
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...
created by joequinn | 2 years ago 365 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment