Water Proof
If you’ve come across any of the many media accounts of a consumer uprising against bottled water, you might well assume that makers and sellers of the stuff are on their knees.
Bottled Water Paradox: Banned, and Required
After two years of extremely heated debate that included references to ecology, history, geography, and the politics of selling or buying mass-produced cupcakes, the Park Slope Food Co-op in Brooklyn voted at the end of last month to discontinue the sale of bottled water. It comes to about 670 gallons of water per week.
The Claim: Never Drink Hot Water From the Tap
The claim has the ring of a myth. But environmental scientists say it is real.
EPA: City water is clean
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he usually toasts with red wine, but he switched to tap water yesterday, when the federal government announced the city won’t need to filter its drinking water from the Catskills and the Delaware Valley for at least the next 10 years.