FLOW: Documentary humanizes international water politics

Described as water’s Inconvenient Truth, recently released documentary For the Love of Water (FLOW) takes important steps toward provoking public discussion around the crisis threatening one of humanity’s most critical resources. Read more

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Nestlé granted permission to drink from Michigan wells

DETROIT - While most of the world’s glaciers are shrinking, Nestlé’s Ice Mountain continues to expand. The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) recently granted Nestlé permission to withdraw water from wells and wetlands in Evart, Michigan. Read more

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To bottle or not to bottle: Vermont debates groundwater gain

EAST MONTPELIER, Vermont - The piece of land New York businessman Daniel Antonovich owns is not far from Montpelier’s spring, where freshwater bubbles up from what seems like an eternal supply. Read more

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Iceland empathizes with FIJI bottled water controversy

REKJAVIC, Iceland - Iceland has recently taken an interest in Fiji’s bottled-water tax crisis, reports MarketWatch. Both countries are islands that export the resource to the United States and Europe. Read more

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Operators strike against bottled water tax in Fiji

FIJI - One of the world’s major exporters of bottled water, FIJI Water shut down its plant in protest of what they believe is an illegal 20 cent per liter tax, the Fiji Daily Post reports. Read more

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What’s Colorless and Tasteless And Smells Like . . . Money?

(June 30, 2008) In a front-page take-out, Shankar Vedantam of the Washington Post walks readers through the tastes and dollars behind the bottled water industry’s efforts to “turn water into the new wine.”

Writes Vedantam: “The push to turn water into the new wine is a marketing phenomenon: The bottled-water industry is engaged in an intense effort to convince Americans that the stuff in bottles is substantially different from the stuff out of the tap.” Read more

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Commentary: Bottled water for dogs?

Bottled water — now considered an extravagance by many — remains a growing market in the United States and its newest economic niche seems to have taken the product to the height of indulgence: bottled water for dogs. Read more

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Limiting Bottles in Seattle

SEATTLE - The King County Council has approved a measure to limit the purchase of single-serving bottled water by county agencies and offices. Read more

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Graphic: Bottled water imports and exports

A new UN map highlights bottled water’s patterns of international trade. With France being the major exporter of bottled water, trade routes in Europe (between France, Germany, and Belgium) often involve intracontinental trade. The United States also imports a large quantity of water from France and Fiji. Read more

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Despite backlash to bottled water, profits grow

New York, NY - Bottled water may be going the way of the dodo, if you believe the hype in the media these days. But despite the backlash from many about its green costs, profits are up.

Nonetheless, Fiji Water is upping its marketing budget to make its image more eco-friendly. One of their new slogans: “Every Drop Is Green”. Read more

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