NPR's Talk of the Nation's 23 July 2007 show (click here) featured a discussion/debate on bottled water.
Featured speakers:
Ross "Rocky" Anderson, mayor of Salt Lake City, who recently banned SLC departments from using taxpayers' money to purchase bottled water.
Bill Marsh, author of "A Battle Between the Bottle and the Faucet", recently published in the New York Times (see my 15 July 2007 post).
Joesph Doss, president and CEO of the International Bottled Water Association (IBWA).
Good show - give a listen.
By the way, while at the Eugene (OR) airport on Monday I saw a local brand of bottled water that proclaimed it had "mono-atomic minerals". So, single atom minerals - if I recall my mineralogy, that would mean things like gold, silver, platinum, native copper,.....??? It was $2.50 for a 17-ounce bottle, which is almost $19 per gallon. Oh yeah, it was also pH balanced (7.7) with extra oxygen. What was that P.T. Barnum said? Probably a big seller in Eugene (a "Boulder-type" town).
I read yet another assessment of top municipal waters in the USA. This time it was Salt Lake City, with Charleston, SC, in second place. Guess Mayor Rocky can justify his actions.
Here is a related story ("Advocates Hope to Turn Tide Against Bottled Water") from the 22 July 2007 Chicago Tribune (you may have to register to read it - free).
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Posted by: Peter | Friday, 10 August 2007 at 03:04 AM