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Seattle looking at bottled water ban?

Looks like the Seahawks v. 49ers feud has spilled over a bit.

Looks like Seattle is doing what it can to one-up San Francisco on bottled water bans. http://forcechange.com/104537/ban-plastic-water-bottles-in-major-city/

We applaud the environmentally-conscious and 100% agree that plastic bottle waste is extensive, totaling upwards of 13% of our annual landfill waste. What we tend to question is not the merit of the concept of reducing bottled water waste, but “tap-is-never-bad” beliefs of our friends at organizations like banthebottle.net.

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San Francisco’s Board Passes Bottled Water Ban

We’d written about this a little ways back, but San Francisco has moved forward towards banning the sale of bottled water on city property with

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ALS’ Evening of Hope

We’ve been honored to have the opportunity to work with the ALS Association Wisconsin Chapter over the past few years. For the first time ever,

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San Francisco Proposes Bottled Water Ban

Without a doubt, we’re not huge fans of the sheer waste of bottled water and, let’s be candid, a lot of bottled water is not

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Brain-eating amoeba?

Have you heard about this problem in Louisiana? Usually scientific names sound scarier than the pathogen’s common name, but naegleria absolutely sounds better than anytime

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Water Disinfection: Then and Now

Our friends at Water and Health wrote a quick post a few days back about a The Chlorine Revolution, a book detailing the beginning days of water

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Chlorine Taste and Smell in Drinking Water

We kind of have a love-hate relationship with chlorine around here. It’s one of the oldest technologies still being utilized. It all but stopped

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Pharmaceuticals in Drinking Water

There are 170,000+ public water systems. They are regulated to watch almost 100 0f the harmful substances generally present in drinking water. This covers bacteria,

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Water Hardness and Scale

We’re in our fourth decade of running free water tests during days, nights and weekends. We’ve seen thousands upon thousands of water softeners installed on

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