Heart problems linked to bottle use
28.06.09
A chemical commonly used in plastic bottled may be harmful to the heart, a number of US studies have found. Rachel Browne from the SMH reports.
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Green Minute - bottled water
15.05.09
In this video blog, Courier Mail’s Graham Readfearn puts a persuasive case that bottled water makes no sense, environmentally or financially. We spend half a billion dollars annually on something we can have from the tap, and use millions of barrels of oil in its production.
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School water fountains to prevent obesity
30.03.09
As The New York Times reports, a new study shows that installing school water fountains, distributing reusable water bottles in classrooms and educating kids about the health benefits of water can lower a child’s risk of obesity.
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Want to save $1,400 a year? Give up bottled water.
30.03.09
Jeff Yeager at the Daily Green points out that bottled water is 240 to 10,000 times more expensive than tap.
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Voluntary addition of fluoride to bottled water
30.11.08
As reported on the Food Standards Australia and NZ website, the Australian Beverages Council Ltd has applied for approval of the voluntary addition of fluoride to bottled water, in a further effort to duplicate what most Australians already get from their taps.
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Australian dental body recommends fluoride in bottled water
12.11.08
The Australian Dental Association today supported moves by the beverage industry to add fluoride to bottled water “because fewer people are drinking tap water”, ignoring the obvious alternative of promoting the consumption of tap water over bottled water, as Australia Network News reports.
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Generation H2O
24.10.08
As John Walsh writes in today’s New Matilda, despite the fact that sales of bottled water are up around the world there is now the inevitable backlash. The environmental cost of producing somewhere north of 100 billion plastic bottles a year is obvious.
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A new dig at bottled water
15.10.08
The New York Times reported today that consumers are turning their backs on bottled water and returning to tap and filtered, as issues such as the environmental costs of bottled water and contamination risks come to light.
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Still Sparkling?
09.09.08
Interviewed for mindfood.com, environmental journalist Elizabeth Royte talks about her latest book Bottlemania, which investigates our environmentally damaging penchant for bottled water.
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Marketing 'juggernaut' creating flood of bottled water: author
03.07.08
Interviewing author of Bottlemania Elizabeth Royte, ABC Radio’s Eleanor Hall today reported on one of the most remarkable marketing coups of the last quarter of a century- the explosion in bottled water sales when a safer, better tasting alternative is available for a fraction of the cost on tap.
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Like water for profit
25.06.08
Bottled Water outsells both milk and beer in the United States. Conrad Walters from The Sydney Morning Herald investigates the phenomenon that is bottled water with Bottlemania author Elizabeth Royte.
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Bottled water fad springs a leak
03.05.08
Julian Lee, writing in today’s SMH, reports that in the US bottled water is becoming the new social evil, as in Australia Manly Council bans its use at meetings.
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Issues: water
25.04.08
The US Natural Resources Defense Council comprehensive Q&As providing the facts on bottled water in the American context.
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Bottled water: pure drink or pure hype?
25.04.08
The NRDC’s March 1999 petition to the US Food and Drug Administration and report on the bottled water industry.
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