| US Airways’ Fee for Bottled Water | | 2008-08-05 08:25:25 | | Hit by high fuel prices and shrinking airline travel; on weekend US Airways announced a $2 surcharge for water and $1 for coffee aboard their flights, adding that only first class passengers on transatlantic flights could expect free water.
Further, passengers dismayed by US Airway’s fee for water may want to consider coffee or tea. US [...] | | By: CheapOair | | |
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| Do You Need To Buy Bottled Water? | | 2008-07-19 00:00:00 | | Most of us should have been drinking bottled water before. The companies which produce bottled water also invest a lot of money in advertising their products. However, do you really need bottled water? Is there any difference between these products and tap water?
As a matter of fact, there is just virtually unlimited number of brands [...] | | By: Resources Zone | | |
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| Mineral Water Benefits - Isn’t All Mineral Water The Same As Bottled Water? | | 2008-07-10 00:00:00 | | According to Dr. John Sorenson, a leading authority on mineral metabolism, “Minerals in drinking water are more easily and better absorbed than minerals from food.” Therefore, mineral water is a highly beneficial, healthy kind of water that can get needed minerals delivered faster and more efficiently into your bloodstream and body than eating foods or [...] | | By: Resources Zone | | |
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| Beware of Bottled Water | | 2008-05-07 11:44:13 | | Chemicals, contaminants, pollution, price: new reasons to rethink what you drink and beware of bottled water.Growing Thirst
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| Bottled water in Ontario to get a bit more expensive | | 2008-04-23 14:29:00 | | Ontario is looking at charging bottled water companies more than a token fee for the water they take from the province's lakes and streams.Nestle Canada Inc. was recently given the green light to take 1.3 billion litres of groundwater a year from an area near Guelph for only the cost of a $3,000 application fee.Starting next year, Ontario will charge $3.71 per million litres of water as a | | By: News Alert | | |
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| Chicago's Bottled Water Tax Confounds Liberals. . . | | 2008-04-04 12:18:25 | | Liberals confused as their plan to raise revenues from higher taxes on bottled water fails. From the Chicago Sun Times:
Are Chicagoans trekking to the suburbs to buy cases of bottled water -- and avoid a new nickel-a-container tax that adds $1.20 to the price of a 24-pack? Or are they making the switch to tap water to save money? One or the other is happening. Maybe both.
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| Tax Revenue from Chicago's New Bottled Water Tax Way Off | | 2008-03-30 23:00:00 | | According to the Chicago Sun-Times, revenue from the 5 cent per bottle tax is running 36% under projection since it went into effect on January 1. The city says it's because people don't buy water in cold weather; the industry notes that suburban bottled water sales (without the punitive tax) have skyrocketed:January collections were $554,000. That's far short of the $875,000-a-month needed to meet the city's $10.5 million-a-year projection.[...]David Vite, president of the Illinois Retail Merchant's Association, acknowledged that bottled water consumption rises with the temperature.But that doesn't explain away what Vite calls "enormous increases" in suburban bottled water sales, particularly in stores near the Chicago border. We discussed the silliness of singling out bottled water for a special tax here, and the less silly legal problems associated with the tax here. | | By: Tax Policy Blog | | |
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| Attention Chicago Residents: Buy Your Bottled Water Before Midnight (Though A Legal Challenge is Pending) | | 2007-12-31 00:00:00 | | In a few hours, Chicago residents will be paying $10.5 million more for bottled water, due to the implementation of the 5-cent-per-bottle tax we blogged about here. We wrote: So why did the council enact a five-cent tax on bottled water? Is it defensible under any principle of sound tax policy? ... [The mayor] just wanted to raise revenue via an arbitrary tax source that has no justification to be used as a general revenue source. And if you can believe this, another reason that was actually cited in a previous article when this issue was first being debated was that the city was upset that people were buying bottled water and not purchasing the water via the city's monopoly on tap water. Maybe we spoke too soon: the tax will soon be challenged in court: [The plaintiffs will be the] American Beverage Association, the International Bottled Water Association, the Illinois Retail Merchants Association and the Illinois Food Retailers Association....Illinois Beverage Associatio | | By: Tax Policy Blog | | |
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| Chicago Passes Bottled Water Tax | | 2007-11-14 00:00:00 | | The Chicago City Council passed Mayor Daley's budget yesterday, which included a five-cent tax per unit of bottled water sold in the city, in addition to a fairly large property tax hike. From the Chicago Tribune:Brushing off a rare show of opposition, Mayor Richard Daley won easy City Council approval Tuesday of a spending and tax plan that will tap into the wallets of just about everyone who lives, works or plays in Chicago.The package, which takes effect Jan. 1, includes the biggest property tax hike of Daley's 18-year tenure as well as higher taxes on beer, wine and liquor, a new 5-cent tax on bottled water and increased water and sewer fees.The most controversial item was the $86 million property tax increase, which passed on a vote of 29-21.So why did the council enact a five-cent tax on bottled water? Is it defensible under any principle of sound tax policy? Is it defensible as a Pigouvian tax? It may or may not be, but the mayor didn't really care about that either. There wa | | By: Tax Policy Blog | | |
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| Bottled Water Delivery - The Bottle | | 2007-09-29 05:09:22 | | An essential part of any bottled water delivery service is the actual bottle itself. The bottle is the water vessel that sits atop the water cooler and most bottles are the 5 gallon variety often with the name of the water service provider on the side.
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| Bottled Water Refund Payout per State | | 2007-09-12 02:18:35 | | Stat blogs at The Statistics Monster. If you would like to blog here, send us an email at worldthoughts(at)gmail(dot)com.There are 12 states with bottle deposit refunds. You know, those things where you bring in your bottles and they give you money? Here they are:California: 5 or 10 centsConnecticut: 5 centsDelaware: 5 centsHawaii: 5 centsIowa: 5 cents, also applies to wine bottlesMaine: 5 cents, also applies to fruit juice and bottled water, 15 cents for some wine bottlesMassachusetts: 5 centsMichigan: 10 centsNew York: 5 centsOregon: 5 centsVermont: 5 centsThe northeast seems to have the highest amount of states with a refund policy.Source: Wikipedia
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| Bottled Water is Bad for the Environment | | 2007-08-14 16:29:00 | | It takes 1.5 million barrels of oil a year just to make the plastic water bottles Americans use countless barrels to transport it from as far as Fiji and refrigerate it.read more | digg storyhttp://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/naOQ | | By: Genius of Love | | |
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| Chicago Alderman Seeking Bottled Water Tax | | 2007-08-14 07:00:00 | | A Chicago alderman has come to the conclusion that bottled water imposes negative costs on society and must be taxed. Oh, and he needs to fill a budget hole. From CBS 2 Chicago:Cooling off with bottled water could soon cost you more within the Chicago city limits if one alderman has his way.As CBS 2's Kristyn Hartman reports, Ald. George Cardenas (12th) wants to slap a tax of up to 25 cents on the cost of every bottle to help close a $217 million budget gap."People enjoy jogging or driving with a bottle of water. There's a cost associated with this behavior. You have to pay for it," said Cardenas, one of Mayor Richard M. Daley's staunchest City Council supporters.Cardenas noted that there's a nearly $40 million shortfall in the city's water and sewer funds, in part because of a decline in water usage."How is this possible when we have a water system that's won honors? It's because bottled water has become a $15 billion industry that's growing at a rate | | By: Tax Policy Blog | | |
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| Is Bottled Water Tap Water? | | 2007-07-28 11:06:25 | | PepsiCo Incorporated has decided to be transparent about the fact that its Aquafina bottled water product is made from tap water.
Aquafina is the single biggest bottled water brand, and its bottles are now labeled “P.W.S.” The new labels will spell out “public water source.”
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| Response From Pepsi - Bottled Water | | 2007-07-26 01:10:00 | | I emailed Pepsi, and I recieved the following response:Thank you for contacting us. In fact, we are in the process of clarifying our Aquafina label. We started discussions with Corporate Accountability earlier this year when they raised questions about Aquafina's labeling, and have shared those concerns directly with PepsiCo's CEO.We have reviewed Aquafina's label with the goal of making it more clear and consistent about identifying the source of the water. We have decided to add the words "Public Water System" to clearly indicate the origin of the water. From there, Aquafina’s HydRO-7 purification system removes substances most other bottled waters leave in. What this means is that no matter where you buy your Aquafina, it tastes the same – every time, everywhere.This change will occur over time as new labels are printed for Aquafina to avoid unnecessary waste of existing, pre-printed materials. Additional questions about Aquafina's sources can be directed to either Pepsi-Col | | By: Thoughts on the World | | |
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| Pepsi Call-In Day - Take Action Against Bottled Water | | 2007-07-26 00:45:00 | | Pepsi Call-In Day– Tell Pepsi to get rid of their deceptive logo!Do you know where your bottled water comes from? Probably not, because bottled water corporations like Pepsi, Coke, and Nestlé are reluctant to disclose this information. Instead, they prefer to use misleading branding to undermine confidence in public water systems and shape consumers perceptions of bottled water without revealing information about the sources or sites of the water they bottle. For example, the most popular bottled water brand, Aquafina, is just processed tap water, despite the image of the snow-capped mountain that appears on every label. That’s right; you could get virtually the same water out of your own tap for free!Join Corporate Accountability International’s Pepsi Day of Action! Ask Pepsi when they will remove the misleading mountain logo on the Aquafina label and become transparent about the sources of the water they bottle. Pepsi is paying attention to this: now we need your help to step | | By: Thoughts on the World | | |
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| Drinking Tap water or bottled water? | | 2007-07-14 13:05:00 | | We have all heard too much about drinking high amount of water for losing weight. Health experts suggest that we should drink in excess of 2 to 3 liter of water everyday.
Are we trying to satisfy your thirst with any of the soft drink, soda or beer? The trick is about drinking pure plain water. There are many people who prefer to drink bottled water over taped water.
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| 7 Facts You Never Knew About Bottled Water | | 2007-07-03 03:03:00 | | Part 1 in a 2-part miniseries.7 facts you didn’t know about bottled water (you can draw your own conclusions):• Tap water is just as safe as bottled water. In fact, the U.S. government requires more rigorous testing on tap water than on bottled water. [1] [2] • Bottled water is thousands of times more expensive than water from your faucet. [1]• Terephthalate (PET) is the most commonly used plastic for making water bottles. PET is derived from crude oil. [3]• Just in the U.S., 1.5 MILLION barrels of oil are used each year for tasks such as (but not limited to) making PET, transporting bottles and powering water bottle factories. [3]• 2.7 MILLION tons of plastic are used to bottle water bottles every year. [3]• 86% of water bottles aren’t recycled. [4] • About 40% of bottled water starts as tap water. [5]Sources:Food & Water Watch [1]NPR [2]Earth-policy.org [3]Seattle Post-Intelligencer [4]NRDC [5]For More:Wikipedia: Bottled water (Environmental impact)Bottled Water Rep | | By: Thoughts on the World | | |
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| Bottled Water is Hype | | 2007-04-19 15:29:00 | | Have you ever stopped to think about just how incredibly odd it is to buy bottled water? America has some of the best civil infrastructure in the world. Most Americans have clean drinking water piped directly into their sinks. Yet, we persist in buying the bottled stuff.Not only that, the plastic bottles they come in are an environmental hazard.http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/naOQ | | By: Genius of Love | | |
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