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Bottled water, a natural resource taxing the world's ecosystem (BARF ALERT)
Yahoo News ^ | 2/10/2006 | AFP

Posted on 02/10/2006 9:16:02 AM PST by ConservativeBamaFan

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To: Seajay
Also, all these people running around with bottles of room temperature water remind me of babies clasping their "botties".

Hey my baby bottle rescued me from really bad coffee addiction.

21 posted on 02/10/2006 9:37:46 AM PST by rhombus
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To: ravingnutter

Parts of the public water supply in Southern CA are radioactive. No kidding, radioactive and also polluted with heavy metals. But, it's made to "taste good" otherwise.

I was pretty shocked when I looked up groundwater conditions...


22 posted on 02/10/2006 9:38:39 AM PST by MillerCreek
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To: ConservativeBamaFan
What's EVIAN spelled backwards?

NAIVE.

That's what you are if you pay 2.50 for a bottle of water.

23 posted on 02/10/2006 9:48:28 AM PST by ChadGore (VISUALIZE 62,041,268 Bush fans. We Vote.)
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To: ConservativeBamaFan

Blame the French. They started it (Evian). Yes don't even look in the direction of America. Go blame the French. Oh by the way, I am "shouting" this to the author.


24 posted on 02/10/2006 9:50:20 AM PST by napscoordinator
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To: GreenFreeper

"The whole bottled water craze is pretty ridiculous. Tap water is just fine for me."
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Until you find a nice spring on your property and decide to get in to the very lucrative bottled water business. Its like old Jed Clampett shootin for some food and up from the ground comes a bubbling crude....only its water....yeeehawwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.....time to buy that Marcades beeenz I been wontin...


25 posted on 02/10/2006 9:53:17 AM PST by fizziwig (Democrats: so far off the path, so incredibly vicious, so sadly pathetic.)
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To: MillerCreek

It's not fluorine that disinfects, it's chlorine. Disinfecting water is one thing, the nanny state idea of protecting us with fluorine is ridiculous. Fluorine is nasty to organic compounds, of which the human body is nothing but.

In the summer, they dump so much chlorine into our water that it smells like bleach. We've got a well too, but it gets sandy. We use a Pur filter for drinking.

Pure grain alcohol and rain water is the only way to go.


26 posted on 02/10/2006 10:02:29 AM PST by kenth
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To: Seajay
>at a local college, they eliminated drinking fountains

Can they do that? I mean, don't construction codes specify how many drinking fountains must be available in a public area?

27 posted on 02/10/2006 10:14:55 AM PST by Fudd
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To: ConservativeBamaFan

Dupe, posted it yesterday.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1574507/posts

Please search before you post.


28 posted on 02/10/2006 10:16:10 AM PST by PreciousLiberty
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To: MillerCreek

"Parts of the public water supply in Southern CA are radioactive. No kidding, radioactive and also polluted with heavy metals. But, it's made to "taste good" otherwise."

ALL water is radioactive. And ALL non-distilled water contains heavy metals. It's just a matter of how much.

As a matter of fact YOU'RE radioactive, as is every breath of air you take. Have a nice day. :-)


29 posted on 02/10/2006 10:17:16 AM PST by PreciousLiberty
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To: PreciousLiberty

Different article. Please read before you post.


30 posted on 02/10/2006 11:41:26 AM PST by ConservativeBamaFan
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To: ConservativeBamaFan

"Different article. Please read before you post."

You're right, different article about the same report a day later.

BTW, I'm amazed to see so many people here on FR put their political feelings ahead of rationality and common sense. In public, no less. I hope most of you try and use critical thinking a bit more, and political kneejerk reactions a bit less.

Use your heads people!


31 posted on 02/10/2006 11:57:36 AM PST by PreciousLiberty
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To: ConservativeBamaFan
"Making bottles to meet Americans' demand for bottled water requires more than 1.5 million barrels of oil annually, enough to fuel some 100,000 US cars for a year," according to the study. "Worldwide, some 2.7 million tons of plastic are used to bottle water each year."-----

bottled water is a joke.

32 posted on 02/10/2006 12:24:46 PM PST by beyond the sea (Cal Thomas: If only Robert Bork had cried ...................)
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To: ConservativeBamaFan
Personally, I don't think I'd drink anything in Mexico UNLESS it was bottled

Only bottled Corona.

33 posted on 02/10/2006 1:48:34 PM PST by Mike Darancette (Condimaniac)
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To: MillerCreek

That's what we do... and we actually keep 2.5G of it in tanks in the fridge, and use GLASSES. However, I do have a hard plastic water bottle that I refill with RO water from the tap at work. I don't buy bottled water anymore, except for Penta when I'm hurting really bad and can't control the nerve spasms. It helps a little bit.


34 posted on 02/10/2006 1:52:53 PM PST by Jhohanna (Born Free)
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To: Seajay

Omnipresent baby bottle of warm water in one hand, omnipresent baby monitor cellular telephone in the other. The world of the wimp.


35 posted on 02/10/2006 2:42:02 PM PST by CGTRWK
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