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Are you still buying bottled water?

A lot of money and a whole lot of plastic are wasted from those “convenient” bottles of water. They’re everywhere – in school lunches, outdoor events, work meetings, and ultimately in the trash or recycling bin. The thing is, there are very few times when they are a necessity. So what can you do? Invest in a few reusable water bottles for every member of the family. If you’re worried about what’s in the tap water you’re using, get a water filter. You’ll be surprised at the money you’ll save when you break the bottled water habit.

Are you a purchaser of paper towels?

Do you have paper towels stashed around your house? Are you like so many others and addicted to these one-use items? Take it from me – you can live without them. The benefits are big. For one, you’ll be saving money. And, you’ll be saving a whole lot of energy and generating less pollution. A more economical solution is to keep dishcloths, rags, and other towels in a convenient kitchen drawer. It’s much more cost-effective and resource-effective to launder them than it is to throw away a paper towel after every use.

http://www.sacbee.com/2011/05/23/3647129/do-your-part-whats-your-dirty.html

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J. Chocolatier and Saxby’s Coffee will fill your reusable water bottle with tap water for free, now that the businesses are part of the TapIt and DC Water effort to reduce use of wasteful plastic bottled water. The free water could be welcome relief on the hot summer days ahead.

DC Water and the national network TapIt have recruited more than 60 eateries in the District to offer free water refills to those who bring their own reusable bottles.

“We’re partnering with local businesses to increase public access to drinking water, protect the environment and save people money,” said DC Water General Manager George S. Hawkins.

“More than half a billion bottles are discarded each week in this country, and only 25 percent are recycled,” said District Councilmember Tommy Wells. Wells was also one of the leading proponents of D.C.’s bag tax as part of his effort to reduce waste in area rivers.

http://georgetown.patch.com/articles/georgetown-businesses-dc-water-and-tapit-encourage-use-of-resuable-water-bottles

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Eugene tap water is among the healthiest, safest, greenest and most affordable in the nation, and it is a smart alternative to bottled water. The University uses more than 350,000 disposable water bottles a year — that’s about a thousand every day, despite the availability of quality tap water.

Tap water is safer than bottled water. Most of the bottled water sold on campus is bottled tap water, meaning that consumers are paying thousands of times the cost for the same product. Bottled water also has limited health and safety regulations. Bottled water is only tested 52 times a year. Independent tests of bottled water have found contaminants such as arsenic and industrial solvents. In 1994, there was a contamination of crickets in sparkling water produced by Texas-based Southwest Canners.

Eugene tap water is tested 85,000 times per year. Eugene’s water department tests water from the pipes on campus several times a month to ensure safety.

http://www.dailyemerald.com/2011/06/01/letter-university-should-put-a-cap-on-bottled-water/

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NEW YORK — In a slender essay titled “Here Is New York,” E.B. White wrote about the implausibility of the great city, mentioning among other things the millions of gallons of water needed each day just so people could brush their teeth.

That was in 1948. Since then, the implausibility factor has increased thousands-fold — or at least an awful lot — a fact among many that prompted Charles Fishman to expand White’s thought in his new book, “The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water.”

If you read it — and you should — you will be very thirsty. And you will never flush again with the same nonchalance.

Somewhere between implausible and insane lies this little fact: The main way Americans use water at home is flushing the toilet. That is, 18.5 gallons per day per person. And the water is as pure as the drinking water that runs from our taps. Translation: 5.7 billion gallons of clean drinking water down the toilet each day.

http://newsok.com/more-than-drop-in-bucket/article/3573028

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An estimated 20,000 eight ounce plastic water bottles are bought every week on Cayman Brac, high school students were told in a presentation by the Lions Club of Cayman Brac that highlighted the environmental hazard produced by the use of these single use bottles. The club says it has always emphasized the importance of protecting the environment, undertaking projects geared at educating the community about environmental hazards and encouraging environmentally friendly habits. This year, the club decided to deviate from the usual beach clean-up and instead, made environmental awareness presentations at all of the schools on the island.

At the infants and primary level the students were shown videos and a PowerPoint presentation which encouraged them to ‘Reduce, Reuse & Recycle’, the club said in a release. The presentation and discussions which followed also emphasized the importance of everyone playing a part in protecting the environment.

http://www.caymannewsservice.com/science-and-nature/2011/05/30/lions-challenge-students-boycott-water-bottles

 

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It covers more than two-thirds of the world’s surface, yet members of the U.S. House of Representatives still can’t seem to get enough water.

Seventeen of Pennsylvania’s 19 House members spent more than $3,600 on bottled water during the first three months of this year, according to a quarterly spending report released Tuesday.

While that’s a tiny fraction of the trillions of dollars that lawmakers control in the overall federal budget, it gives an indication about spending priorities, said Bill Allison, editorial director for the Sunlight Foundation, a Washington nonprofit that advocates for making government information public.

“Being able to see how members handle the few millions of dollars in their personal budgets is useful for taxpayers to see,” he said. “What are they spending it on? Equipment? Are they splurging in the fourth quarter to spend off their unused budgets or are they refunding money to the public?”

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/s_739853.html

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