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Bottled up

1 day ago ago from Visible Mystery

Bottled water sales dry up; industry asks 'why?' After steady expansion that saw U.S. per capita consumption grow from less than two gallons a year to a peak of 29 in 2007, bottled water sales slipped 3.2 percent in 2008 and are projected to dip another 2 percent this year, according to estimates by the Beverage Marketing Corporation, a New York research and consulting firm. The primary cause of the decline is hotly contested. Industry ...

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From MSNBC

8 hours ago ago from Aquafornia

From MSNBC: Heather Lewis was wracked with guilt when she realized she was addicted to the bottle. Bottled water, that is. At her worst, she said she went through five plastic bottles of water a day nearly every day for two years. “It was appalling,” said Lewis, an architect from Louisville, Colo. “I felt like Aquafina’s trained monkey.” But one day in January, as she gazed at the piles of plastic in her recycling bin, she ...

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From the Vacaville Reporter

7 hours ago ago from Aquafornia

From the Vacaville Reporter: It's no secret that farmers in California's Central Valley have had to rely more on groundwater in recent years as they struggled to keep crops alive during drought conditions and while facing reductions in the amount of Delta water they could tap. What surprised many people this week was the realization of just how much Central Valley groundwater has been used up during the past six years: Enough to ...

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