Could the advent of commercial bottling and canning the reduction of water in the ecosystem and its subsequent trapping on store shelves world wide could have a significant impact in the overall balance of our delicate system? Just consider how many bottles of Evian, Fiji etc are on the shelves at your local market, then consider canned fruits, cleaners, juices, hair care products and so on. Water, a finite resource, being removed daily refined, formulated, polluted and returned sparingly by consumers. Is this a possibility?
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in my opinion is it doesn't exist. because think about it we are coming out of an ice age. it makes sense doesn't it? fact: there have been ice ages. fact: there is a lot of ice in ice ages. so if you know about water then you know the same amount of it is here that was here when the earth began so literally it is dinosaurs piss. well during an ice age lots of stuff is covered in water/ice ( i know i live in Minnesota and it is known that it was fully covered with ice.). so where is all the water? in ice bergs, glaciers, etc. so it would make sense that to leave an ice age most things would melt right? so they are still melting they will finish melting and cover parts of the world, then it will slowly freeze causing an ice age. why would humans make that big of a difference? we are insignificant to the world.(everyone in the world could fit in Texas and it would only be as densely populated as NY city). so our vehicles and combustible engines couldn't have that big of an effect. but you say "what about the ozone thinning?" well i am not saying it hasn't but it was because of the CFC's(chloral floral carbons) which broke up the ozone by attaching to ozone molecules. but the CFC's are no longer around. the ozone is healing itself as it is meant too. their was no real hole only a thinning which is also bad. but now it is closing up and returning to normal. if you think that the co2 we produced cant be good well think about it it isn't that much and while the earth was cooling after being created it released tons of co2. so what people will notice in the next 1-9000 years is it will warm up but in that time it will also cool down and eventually there will be an ice age. just because the great human race is here doesn't mean that the earth will stop having ice ages as it has done by its self for billions of years. think about it. am i a genius or what i mean i just looked at what has happened in history wow who would have thought history would repeat its self\n\nnow to give you sorces and go into more depth on what i just wrote\n\nwell lets see first. ice ages.\n\nAn ice age is a period of long-term downturn in the temperature of Earth's climate, resulting in an expansion of the continental ice sheets, polar ice sheets and mountain glaciers ("glaciation"). Glaciologically, ice age is often used to mean a period of ice sheets in the northern and southern hemispheres; by this definition we are still in an ice age (because the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets still exist). More colloquially, when speaking of the last few million years, ice age is used to refer to colder periods with extensive ice sheets over the North American and Eurasian continents: in this sense, the last ice age ended about 10,000 years ago. This article will use the term ice age in the former, glaciological, sense; and use the term 'glacial periods' for colder periods during ice ages and 'interglacial' for the warmer periods.\nMany glacial periods have occurred during the last few million years, initially at 40,000-year frequency but more recently at 100,000-year frequencies. These are the best studied. There have been four major ice ages in the further past.\nso we are in an ice age interesting that means it is warming up. well that is my argument but there is more so i will continue.\n\noh my sorce for the above exerpt is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ice_age... so go there and read more if u want\n\nhere is more reading on ice ages\nhttp://library.thinkquest.org/j001457/fa...\nhttp://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/i...\nhttp://www.geologyshop.co.uk/iceages.htm...\ni am not making this up ice ages exist this is the basis to my argument.\n\nthen i said there is ice and water and the same amount of water is here that was millions of years ago again not made up\n\nThere is about the same amount of water on Earth now as there was millions of years ago.\nsource: http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/
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Any bottle is a hazard because people don't clean the bottles properly.  They tend to harbour harmful bacteria.
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Clark Foam, is creating bio-hazards, according to authorities. I think it stems from their manufacturing processes and facilities. I think it sucks. The EPA should be more patient because it affects so many facets of our economy. I live in San Diego and know that tons of businesses west of I-5 live and die via the surfing trade. Visitors who rent surfboards will see their rates rise. New buyers will pay more. Old used boards will go up in price. Anything that floats with a foam core will be more expensive, like boogie boards. It's government intervention...our gov't doesn't pressure the Chinese for their EPA compliance's. The Chinese pour acid in their rivers for drinking water. Clark Foam doesn't do anything close to that.\nLet's work this out...unless the gov't wants this industry shipped out of the country...??interesting.
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bottled water...water is the source of sustaining life..nothing can survive without water on earth..
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this guy knows a lot about old bottles, I have found much useful info \nherehttp://www.bottlebooks.com/questions/August%202004/august_2004_questions.htm
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well let me tell you the first natural resorce we will run out of...it is not oil or natual gas it will be water...the most imporant...at the currant rate of polulation increase we will have to use every last drop of fresh water to surive in about 120 years...of course we can distill sea water but that will only delay the stituation...we are not going to find any more water on this planet so space is the nest best altenative...that is quiet honestly why we should keep space exploration alive...the only thing i would like to see is corpations and indivuals do it as well...\n\ntruthfully there will always be poor...sad to say...but hey look at it this way...did you get a internet connection...did you go out to eat this week...do you have cable tv...and i would be willing to bet that you have a computer as well...you could spent the money on some charity instead...it is not alway the goverment that should fix our problems...sometime we have to do it
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Check out this report on bottled water and then determine which is better. I personally like the 365 brand from Whole Foods Market. I can taste the difference. There is no bad aftertaste.
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There are still 1.3 billion people with insufficient drinking water supplies, 13,000 people die each day from illnesses related to their drinking water. Even filtration provides little more than an expensive, even fatal, illusion. If the filter has been in place too long, which is hard to determine, bacteria flourishes and the danger is greater than ever. The costs for new filters must also be considered. This leads to a situation where users, particularly in poorer countries, risk their health and their lives due to lack of money. The UV sterilisation method, often over-estimated, requires a lot of maintenance and is often only able to sterilise. Suspended solids are often insufficient, chemicals and heavy metals are not removed.\n\nWater distillation, however, offers a perfect solution, as has been demonstrated by vapour compression and multi-stage condensing. Individual households on the other hand, particularly in the USA, make use of smaller distillation apparatus, in which drinking water is produced and connections also made to ice-cube machine.\nIn Germany, however, public opinion still views distilled water as a health risk. In fact the very opposite is the case. All minerals contained in water are inorganic and are only expelled from the body with great difficulty, if at all. The result is calcium deposits, stones in the bladder, gall-bladder and kidneys. Even expensive mineral water has minerals which are more often detrimental to health than beneficial, the remainder having a mostly homeopathic effect. In order to satisfy our mineral intake requirements from drinking water alone, we would have to drink some 2-3 cubic metres of water per day. In fact, we satisfy our mineral requirements with our food intake. The disadvantage of distillation up to now has been its relatively high energy consumption.\n\nSolar distillation plants have already been around for a number of decades, first being used in the 1950’s, mainly for the desalination of sea water. Large collecting areas supplied whole villages and industrial plants. These developments sadly came to a halt as a result of the enormously lowered prices for energy derived from oil and atomic power.\nSince 1985, Wilfried Rosendahl has been further developing solar distillation on Gran Canaria. His success is viewed as a sensation by experts. By using his process it is possible to produce drinking water economically, from small units as well as large ones. The price of water produced from a medium sized unit (>1 m³/d) is less than 3 Euro per cubic metre!\n\n \nThe principle is amazingly simple. Untreated water like sea water or contaminated water is added to an upper channel in controlled amounts. From there it drips over wicks and a black coloured absorber fleece through the collector. A part evaporates from the energy of the sun and the steam condenses under the glass cover. The condensation runs into the condensation channel. The remaining untreated water is collected in front of it and diverted out of the side of the collector. Both the untreated water channel and the condensation channel have supply points on the sides. Since there are no moving parts the whole system requires almost no maintenance.\n\nAlthough this seems simple today, the development process required solutions to numerous problems. A result was the use of stainless steel for all components that were in contact with water, use in sea water or brackish water required a special alloy. Different textiles were tested for their suitability as an absorber fleece. The important factor is good capillary characteristics with water content as low as possible, also resistance to rotting. A special dye was developed for the colouring. UV resistance is a must. Resistance to salt water and capillary characteristics are further requirements, coupled with non-toxicity, these proved to be a problem in the first months of operation, where many of the dyes tested emitted toxic fumes, which entered the drinking wa
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Dear Editor,\n\nI am a student concerned about the recent water supply shortages caused by mismanagement by the water supply authorities.  The shortages have caused me no end of misery.  Not only am I not able to take a shower, or flush my toilet consistently, I am becoming dehydrated from lack of fresh water to drink.  As a result, I can't do my own homework and must instead ask strangers on the internet to do it for me.\n\nI would appreciate it if you could write an editorial on the subject to pressure the authorities to increase the water flow.\n\nSincerely,\n\nMy name, not somebody else that I copied from.
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Apparently groups in Sweden, Australia, and the UK are working on this. There are probably others as well. They are making progress. It does appear that this might allow the industrial scale separation of water into hydrogen and oxygen, and the reduction of atmospheric CO2. \n\n\nRecently, Jim Barber and So Iwata of Imperial College in London identified the actual crucial molecules that are used to split water by plants. This might lead to huge advances eventually. It is quite exciting.
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it would seem logical that it would.  everyting in nature seems to go in cycles, wouldn't this be the ultimate in recycling?  everything back to where it begun?  it makes sense to me , but sadly not yet backed up by empirical evidence, not yet anyway...
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1 and 2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone\n3: http://archive.greenpeace.org/ozone/gallery/  (Greenpeace)\n4: I can't find anything for this one.  Sorry.  From what I know, however, most companies that makes things like refrigerators, air conditioners, and aerosol cans have altererd their practice, either out of good PR or by governmental mandate (not sure which).\n\nSorry I couldn't help more!
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It's cost effective is likely the main reason, besides the significant public health concern. \n\nWhen chlorine treatment was introduced in the early 1900's diseases like typhoid, cholera, and dysentery were commonly carried in drinking water and chlorination effectively eliminated them. BUT:\nI quote:\n"... the July [1992]  issue of the American Journal of Public Health, researchers found that people who regularly drink tap water containing high levels of chlorinated hydrocarbons have a greater risk of developing bladder and rectal cancers than people who drink unchlorinated water.  The study estimates that about 9% of all bladder and 18% of all rectal cancer cases are associated with long-term consumption of these hydrocarbons.  This amounts to over 20,000 new cases each year!"\n\nEuropean water treatment has largely shifted to ozone and filtration, and they have found it works. Plus the chlorine residuals are about 10 times less than in US water. \n\nYour question is timely for me because my public water company just sent me a letter announcing that the drinking water was above regulatory limits for trihalomethanes-and this is caused by chlorination. Dibromochloromethane is associated with cancer risk of one per million at 0.6 micrograms per liter. That's about the same as 6 parts per billion. Not terrible odds at 1 per million, but I don't like that ppb since the smallest I can measure in the lab is probably about 3 parts per billion. In other words, it’s barely measurable.\n\nAnything like water that one consumes in large quantities daily for year after year deserves some attention. I am often the first to dismiss the latest crazy report about something else that will kill me, but with water it is statistically different. I see no choice but to filter drinking water. What else can you do?  \n\nFluoride? Well, you probably get a fair amount in your toothpaste. It’s normally kept around 1 ppm in drinking water so I doubt it is really that much of a problem. I suspect that using fluoride cuts down on the amount of chlorine needed so it may not always add to costs of treatment.
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I feel biodegradable detergents are good for the environment.  I like the coconut-based ones best, particularly the shampoos.
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Hardly. Methane, ethanol (not yet for cars but already viable for power plants), vegetable oil etc.  If we really had to stop burning fossil fuel, the current service stations could distribute the new fuel.  One of the problems with bringing out alternate fuels is that in order to 'compete' with gasoline, it has to be reasonably available to people driving across the country.  Distribution is a tough issue for some of the products.
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Bottled water has become one of the largest industries in the world. Over half of all Americans drink bottled water, spending 240-10,000 times more per gallon for bottled water than they do for tap water, a trend largely fueled by the misconception that bottled water is safer or healthier than tap water.\n\n\nIs bottled water really the best way to get healthy, great tasting water? \nHow do you know about the quality of the water your buying?\nIs the cost worth it? \nControversial reports from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) in Washington, DC, and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in Gland, Switzerland, say no. Even the Federal agency that regulates bottled water quality, the FDA, says no! "Companies who market bottled water as being safer than tap water are defrauding the American public." U.S. FDA \n\n\nIt has also become a target of the environmental community due to the massive amounts of plastic bottles being disposed of from bottled water use.\n\n\nBottled water is now a multi-billion dollar business, the fastest growing and most profitable segment of the entire beverage industry. If you currently buy bottled water, chances are it's because you prefer the taste and trust the quality over tap water, but do you really know what is or is not in bottled water? \n\n\nBottledWaterBlues.Com was created to encourage awareness of some very important issues, primarily the purity of our water and the best place to get it. Why pay so much and get so little?\n\n\nWhen it comes to something as important as our water, which makes up over 70% of our body and ultimately determines our health more than anything else, knowing the facts is essential.\n\nIndoor plumbing was one of the greatest lifestyle enhancements in history. We once had to leave our house, transport and store water. Then, we progressed to indoor plumbing and had a continuous supply of water at our fingertips. Now, we are regressing... people are once again transporting and storing water. Instead of walking to the well, we are driving to the store or having water driven to us. Bottled water simply doesn't make sense, don't let high priced ad campaignes make you think that it does. Once you know the truth, we hope you'll join the millions of informed consumers who are "Just saying no" to bottled water! \n\nThe best alternative to tap water is in-home water filtration. With an in-home water filter you can have better than bottled water quality... at the touch of a button... for under 10¢ a gallon. \n\n\nHome Water Filtration vs. bottled water... it's better quality, a much better value, far more convenient... and it's better for the environment!
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Wow, interesting article.  Possibly one of the best-written and moth truthful ones I have seen.  It's amazing how well people have hushed up the most recent climatological results which indicate a plateau in global temperatures.\n\nAs they noted at the end of the article, I think it's time we gave up on this misguided effort to "reduce man-made CO2", and start worrying about real issues like shortages of drinking water and environmental pollution.\n\nClimate fluctuations are part of the earth cycle- and we honestly don't understand enough about they systems and their interactions to have any idea how we could possibly effect it.  But the science is in:  this happens ALL the time in earth history, and it's pretty arrogant of us to think that this time it's our fault!