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As a member of Food and Water Watch, the leading advocate for water and food safety, I agree I have the right to clean, safe water and it’s time to blow the lid off bottled water.

The truth is bottled water is no safer or cleaner than tap water. In fact, it may even come from exactly the same source. In 2005, Coca-Cola sold $346 million of its Dasani bottled water— nothing more than filtered tap water in a plastic bottle. That same year, Nestle had nearly $200 million in sales of Poland Spring—which doesn’t come from spring sources. Multinational corporations like PepsiCo also spread falsehoods about the safety of our tap water. Some facts about bottled water:

1. The chemicals used to soften plastic leach into bottled water and may cause cancer, birth defects, and developmental problems in babies and children.

2. Unlike tap water, bottled water is not monitored by the federal government so you cannot be sure it is safe. The federal government requires far more rigorous and safety testing of municipal drinking water than bottled water.

3. They also trash our environment. About 86 percent of plastic water bottles end up in landfills instead of being recycled. They sit there for centuries, their chemicals seeping into our water system, and pose an unqualified environmental disaster.

4. Water companies drain our aquifers and other underground water sources for their own profit.

5. Bottled water is much more expensive. At $2 for a 20-ounce container, bottled water costs thousands of times more than tap water. Americans spent almost $12 billion on bottled water in 2007 because they think it is somehow safer or better than tap water. It is not.

We have some of the cleanest tap water in the world. We don’t need bottled water.

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On Tuesday, Bruce Jacobs, executive director of Indiana Memorial Union, discussed the efforts the University and the Union have made to maintain a more sustainable Union building.

In the lecture to around 100 students and guests in Woodburn Hall, Jacobs talked specifically about the process of “Greening of the IMU” — an initiative led by IU Office of Sustainability to make the Union a model for sustaining energy and resources across the campus.

The lecture was also part of the College of Arts and Sciences’ Themester 2010 “sustain•ability: Thriving on a Small Planet.”

Jacobs said since early 2009, University officials and environmental experts have gathered on campus to discuss how to improve sustainability practices in IU’s iconic building.

He said though the progress has been made so far, there is still a lot to be done in order to get the building green.

“If there are four stages in the whole process, we are at stage one,” Jacobs said, “The whole project may still need another 10 years.”

While answering questions asked at the end the one-hour lecture, Jacobs listed improvements the Union has been working on, such as the possibility of replacing bottled water with more drink refill stations. Jacobs said this might involves negotiation with IU’s designated soft drink distributor — Coca-Cola.

The Union currently has four water-bottle refill stations.

http://www.idsnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=78782

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We’ve all heard stories about sketchy tap water. But a lot of bottled water is not much better. In fact, there is less quality oversight for bottled water than there is for tap water, Karp says.

“This is a beverage that falls from the sky for free. It’s given away at public water fountains,” Karp says. “Yet somehow, this industry has convinced us to go to the store (and) pay real money for this stuff.”

Tap water is regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency, Karp says, and checked for quality more frequently than bottled water, which is regulated by the Food and Drug Administration.

And, according to the EPA’s website, “Some bottled water is treated more than tap water, while some is treated less or not treated at all.”
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