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Hey all!

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/117/features-message-in-a-bottle.html

One of the most entertaining articles I've read this year - good plane  
fare.  About the economics (and morality?!) of bottled water...

Quick Snippet:
And in Fiji, a state-of-the-art factory spins out more than a million  
bottles a day of the hippest bottled water on the U.S. market today,  
while more than half the people in Fiji do not have safe, reliable  
drinking water. Which means it is easier for the typical American in  
Beverly Hills or Baltimore to get a drink of safe, pure, refreshing  
Fiji water than it is for most people in Fiji.

And check out the great spin on the environmental  impact of bottled  
water contained within....

Best-

Samson

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On Dec 6, 2007, at 7:06 PM, Sara Poirier wrote:

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> Here's an interesting article from a few years ago that really hit  
> home with a few of us at the OSC. The whole issue of water as a  
> commodity is very interesting. The programs we've run in this area  
> have been popular - it's definitely a topic visitors are interested  
> in.
> http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2002-10-03/news_insight.php
> From the article ... "There are a lot of issues that are not being  
> dealt with. The industry is growing by 20 per cent a year, which  
> raises the question of where are all these water sources. Companies  
> like Coke are now plugging into municipal water systems. Who's  
> paying for the deterioration of those systems? And whose interest  
> takes precedence when there's a water shortage? Our money should be
> going to providing really good public water systems."
>
> and another article by the NRDC
> http://www.nrdc.org/water/drinking/bw/chap2.asp
>
> Thanks for the Taste and Tell idea Cory. I think it would word  
> really well in our Citizen Science area ..
>
> Sara
>
> P.S. I live in Toronto, and the tap water's tasty.
>
>
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