Sunday, July 15, 2007

Bottled Waters - Beverages - Plastic Waste - Recycling - Global Warming - Climate Change - New York Times

Bottled Waters - Beverages - Plastic Waste - Recycling - Global Warming - Climate Change - New York Times: "THOSE eight daily glasses of water you’re supposed to drink for good health? They will cost you $0.00135 — about 49 cents a year — if you take it from a New York City tap.
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New York ads offer tap water as an appealing choice over commercial beverages.

Or, city officials suggest, you could spend 2,900 times as much, roughly $1,400 yearly, by drinking bottled water. For the extra money, they say, you get the added responsibility for piling on to the nation’s waste heap and encouraging more of the industrial emissions that are heating up the planet."

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