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Green Sol Water is attempting to revolutionize the bottled water industry. They are providing high quality water bottles created from plant material rather than oil and bottling water locally instead of transporting water cross country. Corporations that sell bottled water are rapidly depleting the natural resource that we need most…clean drinking water. They are buying up water rights at auctions for ridiculously low prices, sucking aquifers dry and selling that water back to us in bottles for an obscene profit. Much of this water is actually tap water. The bottled water industry and lobbyists have swayed our government to allow water rights to be auctioned off and the public right to drinkable water has been all but disregarded. This year the focus and theme of the World Water Day on March 22nd is sharing water resources, specifically trans-boundary water. Leaders from around the world are attending the World Water Forum in Istanbul hosted by the World Water Council. The forum’s purpose is to raise awareness, develop solutions and foster political support to address the the looming water crisis Recently all the talk has been about carbon footprints. What about water footprints? Water conservation efforts will be big news in 2009. Historically water conservation has been an uphill battle due to the artificially low price of water. With a surging population, global warming and waste, many believe we are approaching “peak water“. We have [...] |
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