Same story, different day – the networks do another bottled water/environmental story.
Who would have thought corporate “big water” would ever have the bulls-eye painted on it by the rabid environmentalists in the television media?
“Across the country cities are urging thirsty Americans to think outside the bottle,” said NBC’s Chief Environmental Affairs Correspondent Anne Thompson on the October 17 “Nightly News.” “From Austin to Boston, it's bottle versus tap in taste tests. They are talking about the ecological impact of bottled water in Portland.”
Thompson told viewers the bottles fill up landfills “because fewer than one-quarter are recycled.” However, rather than encouraging a recycling campaign for used water bottles, Thompson’s report focused on tap water consumption versus bottled water consumption.
But Thompson didn’t tell viewers that according to the International Bottled Water Association (IBWA), 100 percent of bottled water containers are recyclable and water cooler jugs for home or office coolers are sanitized and can be reused an average of 50 times.
“That’s where the effort should be focused, not on any one particular industry, particular – particularly one that makes up just one-third of 1 percent of the entire waste stream,” Joe Doss, president of the IBWA told “Nightly News.”
“Nightly News” even trotted out anti-bottled water jihadist and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom. Newsom banned city departments from purchasing bottled water and referenced his previous 3-5 bottles a day of bottled water “addiction” during an interview with Thompson. Thompson credited Newsom for “replacing the once-ubiquitous bottles with [water] filter machines.”
Thompson, however, didn’t identify Newsom is a staunch Democrat.
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"Who would have thought
October 18, 2007 - 18:23 ET by Chris Norman"Who would have thought corporate “big water” would ever have the bulls-eye painted on it by the rabid environmentalists in the television media?"
It's too hard to stay out in front of the whack jobs. What are parodies of them today are their actual positions tomorrow...
Silly Even for NBC
October 18, 2007 - 19:03 ET by allanfThis is silly stuff even for NBC. I guess it is meant to appeal to concerned young women who work out in health clubs or jog. Bottled water has become de-rigeur - and its not a bad idea.
It didn't take politicians in Chicago long to figure out that this would be a good group to exploit. Just give politicos an excuse like "global warming" and they will become very creative with their taxes.
Beat me to it, allanf; the
October 18, 2007 - 19:08 ET by Indiana JoeBeat me to it, allanf; the Chicago tax, I mean. But I doubt if "King Richard's" proposed tax is meant to help the environment. It seems like just another way to slake his thirst for more and more taxpayer money.
Clowns
October 18, 2007 - 19:36 ET by allanfThe left, with the Armenian Genocide vote, tried a feint to damage the Iraq effort. I wonder if they will next say that our troops in Iraq (who must keep hydrated in the heat) should not use bottled water.
Going after bottled
October 18, 2007 - 20:05 ET by MidAmericaGoing after bottled water is just a 'probing' by the enemy (evironmentalists). If they can get people to accept one industry put out of business by government regulation (for the good of the planet) then they will be emboldened to come after every other food. Remember, most of the radicals want us to be vegetarians. Their idea of a proper meal for us would be a small bowl of rice and some soybean curd.
Why it doesn't matter
October 18, 2007 - 23:20 ET by PopularTechThe Truth About Bottled Water (Video)
The real point is that bottled water is essentially a scam and you should not be wasting your money on it anyway when you can get guaranteed safer water from your tap (wells and old pipes excluded) for the price you are paying already in your water bill.
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Mineral water vs. H2O in a bottle
October 19, 2007 - 05:58 ET by BritcomThe problem with the "bottled water" industry is that filtered tap water is being sold for the same price as spring/mineral water.
Originaly, wealthy people wanted to drink European bottled mineral water for taste or health reasons. The bottlers figured out this phenomon would spawn a market for fashionable idiots who think the bottle makes the water better instead of the source of the water. P.T. Barnum was right.
Bottle Water Virgin
October 18, 2007 - 23:41 ET by Lame CherryI remember the hot days of summer of long ago and drinking water from a well from a 303 soup can.........rusty, exposed to everything that spiders, flies and farm yards could produce. I have been tempted to drink water even from a hole in a rock from being so thirsty chasing deer in the west. I have even drank water whose only attribute in life was that it was wet it was so bad.
Not once in my life though have I drank bottled water.
There is though nothing bad about bottled water. It is water in a plastic bottle. Plastic which is made by the petrochemical poly industry out of the myriad of things they can make out of crude oil.
The nonsense from people that it is unsafe or somehow bad considering plastic is recyclable is like saying milk, soda, dish washing soap or ...........ooopppsss medicine comes in plastic bottles too are "bad".
I have drank tap water in a number of cities and I can make the point it is horrid in many places. In that sense, I certainly would be drinking plastic bottled water by choice than what is now being pumped into homes.
The biggest question is why is bottle water now all of a sudden evil. Looking at old comedy movies there has always been bottled water and no one said boo about it. Millions of plastic bottles as stated above of soda clutter the world and not a peep from the anti bottle water crowd with videos posted ever showed up. So drinking chemicals and sugar is preferred to just water that tastes like plastic?
Yes I know about the little triangle at the bottom of plastic containers and all they mean, but one inhales more poison off of carpets than you do off of plastic.
There has got to be an end to these busy body types who are sticking their noses into everyone's business getting hyped up on things they have no business in. It all relates to money and those same jet flying, SUV driving, big home know it all types who always know what is best for others........as long as they can have their indulgences.
I have always had good water and thank God for it.
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October 19, 2007 - 04:43 ET by Cool ArrowBottled water is more expensive than gasoline and the nightly news is complaining about the container it's sold in.
Give your kid a new toy and they'll play with the box.
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Liberals on the loose
October 19, 2007 - 05:37 ET by BritcomAll I can say is... WTF!
What kind of retard has a problem with water in a bottle. Half the country is under water restrictions and these airheads want us to drink MORE tap water?
What's next? We should stop buying cosmetics, deodorant and shampoo because the landfills are filling up with their unrecycled containers and the chemicals are ruining the natural habitat of lice?
It is too bad that liberalism is not a fatal mental disorder.
You bet there is big money
October 19, 2007 - 08:42 ET by dscottYou bet there is big money in water. Just go ask P&G who makes PUR water filters and stands to monetarily to gain from this whole campaign to get rid of plastic water bottles. hint, hint, hint - check out the PUR - Clinton connection.
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