The bars in the Commons section of the British Houses of Parliament sell 100,000 bottles of water a year. Committee members devour 16,200 litres for free and 34,000 litres of “bottled” water are supplied in coolers throughout the “House”.
This is while the whole of the UK is asked to cut back on bottled water consumption […]
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) in the USA are doing a competition with respect to Bottled Water.
Entries Information: Help us study bottled water labels and win a 100% organic cotton shopping bag and a Klean Kanteen water bottle! Entries should be postmarked on or before Friday, March 7.Here’s what you do to enter the contest:
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If you own a fish pond then sooner or later you will need to know how much water it holds. This is to allow especially for medication of sick fish when dosing levels are important.
Well I’ve made this easy using an Excel calculator which you get free here … click for pond calculator.
The basis for […]
People in the USA are buying more and more bottled water.The bottled water industry is worth $4 billion-a-year business in the USA alone. For some reason which does not make too much sense millions of consumers pay between 240 and 10,000 times more per gallon of bottled water compared to the cost of tap water.Some […]
Farming consumes 87% of the fresh water used in the world.Rain is the result of evaporation from the seas and lakes and rivers and the land. We’re lucky even though only 14% of water evaporates from the land we receive in terms of rainfall 24% of the total evaporation.People need only half a gallon or […]
I’ve just come across an excellent and interesting article that provides the historical (goes back to 1767) background to solar heating and how this can correlate to the greenhouse effect the earth is experiencing. The full story can be seen by clicking the link at the end of this short post. The first solar […]
I came across an interesting article on bottled water which makes the very strong point that bottled water is not what it is made to seem like … especially by the manufacturers and distributors. You can read the full article here but some of the essential points are:
1 To make a single plastic bottle that […]
Despite excellent domestic tap water sanitation systems in place in most developed countries bottled water sales continue to climb dramatically. This one however takes the cake:
In a 12-month period in 2006 and 2007, Warwickshire County Council spent £118,350 - more than £2,000 a week - on drinking water. Read the rest of this tale here […]
