So Where Does Crystal Geyser Get Their Water?

Seeded on Mon Aug 10, 2009 4:47 PM EDT ()

If you are going to pay big bucks for a bottle of water, you should have the right as the consumer to know what's in it and where it came from. So why is Crystal Geyser so secretive about their sources, and about the wells they had to abandon due to contaminants?

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Are Water Softener Companies Going to Help The Environment with New Technologies in California?

Fri Aug 7, 2009 3:22 PM EDT

If you have been following the news in California, you have probably seen the recent move by cities and municipalities to ban old-fashioned salt-based water softeners.

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Expedition Sets Sail to the Great Plastic Vortex

Seeded on Tue Aug 4, 2009 7:52 PM EDT (TIME)

It amazes me how many people are unaware of the problems in the Pacific with the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (or "Gyre").

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Resort Restaurant Uses Filtration Plant to Purify its Water

Mon Apr 13, 2009 3:30 PM EDT

I recently attended a wonderful birthday dinner for a friend of mine at a local destination resort at Pelican Hill golf resort in California.

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Cancer Possible When You Bathe in Chlorine

Sun Mar 29, 2009 8:24 PM EDT

Cancer Possible When You Bathe in Chlorine How aware are we, and what can we do? This may seem like a strange question, but how much do we really know about the effects of bathing in water with chlorine added by our municipalities?

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Economic, environmental challenges to bottled water force Nestle to cut back

Seeded on Fri Feb 27, 2009 4:43 PM EST (Reuters)

Nestle is forced to cut back capital expenditures on its bottled water division(s) because of economy and environmental concerns.

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You Choose - Do We Really Need So Many Plastic Bottles Clogging Our Earth and Bodies?

Mon Feb 23, 2009 1:09 AM EST

PET (polyethylene terephthalate) plastic bottles have come to the forefront of our consciousness lately for two reasons – we are casually covering the surface of our planet with them in landfills even though it takes 700 years for them to start to decompose, and we are increasi …

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