More than a fifth of those who have cut back order tap water, not bottled water.
Technology does not stay bottled up in the technology industry.
In a statement, the council said it was not possible to calculate the exact amount it spent on bottled water because it was not allocated a specific cost code in its records.
The good news is that entrepreneurial energy can help to remedy some environmental harms (and not just with masks and bottled water) if the incentives are drawn right.
Some of the councils asked for the information admitted the figures given might not be accurate because their accounts did not differentiate between payments for bottled water supplies and payment for other supplies.
Nongfu Spring, one of the China's biggest water producers, is suing Beijing Times for alleging that its bottled water did not meet national water quality standards, but instead adhered to a lower provincial standard.
The bottled water industry was not very happy (of course) and has tried various initiatives to try to stop the bandwagon rolling on.
While municipal water utilities are required to provide public reports of test results, bottled-water makers are not. (On the other hand, well water, which is found in many rural areas, isn't regulated as water provided by towns and cities is.) So although you may fork over a pretty penny for bottled water, that doesn't mean it's any better than what's coming out of your faucet.
As finished, bottled wines, these 2003s would not be released for two more years, in 2006--and even then the better wines will be considered too young to drink right away.
Pollution, however, is not the reason that people in rich countries have taken to drinking bottled water.
Unlike the big manufacturers of bottled lagers, however, the early craft beer makers were not interested in mass appeal or in consolidating costs and tended to trumpet their iconoclastic credentials in opposition to the mainstream big lager brewers.
Western producers of bottled beer picked up the slack, but at prices most people could not afford.
That's not counting enhanced and flavored waters, which are growing quickly but remain a small part of the bottled water industry.
The chain also was lauded for not offering sugary drinks as an option with kids meals, instead including low-fat milk or bottled water and apple slices with its child-size subs.
The chain also was lauded for not offering sugary drinks as an option with kids' meals, instead including low-fat milk or bottled water and apple slices with its child-sized subs.
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