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Is Bottled Water Healthier Than Tap Water in The Netherlands?

Contestant #3 in our blog contest: Article by Paula van Dun I visited the waterfilterladysblog and the first line that caught my eye was the line "Are you still drinking bottled water?" My answer to this is no. I seldom drink bottled water. I drink the water as it comes out of my tap. I live in the Netherlands in a region where the water is pretty soft and clean. There has been a test comparing tap water and bottled water in the Netherlands. The results were that bottled water was not healthier ...[READ MORE]

WORLD WATER DAY 2011 – Water for cities

Contestant #2 in our blog contest: Article by Thomas Bergel WORLD WATER DAY 2011 VIEW SLIDE SHOW DOWNLOAD ALL This album has 1 photo and will be available on SkyDrive until 5/21/2011. This is the first time in human history that most of the world’s population (3.3 billion people) live in cities and the urban landscape continues to grow.  38% of the growth is represented by expanding slums while the city populations are increasing faster than the infrastructure can adapt. THE ...[READ MORE]

ARE YOU STILL DRINKING BOTTLED WATER?

Contestant #1 in our blog contest: Article by Jay Glasgow 60+ Million Plastic Bottles enter  our Oceans, Bays & Rivers every year!     Monday, February 21, 2011 Jay Glasgow Drinking Water Containers – Fashionable & Eco-friendly? You would think there’s not a decent source of water for thousands of miles, considering the billions of dollars we spend on bottled drinking water. Containers with a brand name attached give us the impression that somehow we are guaranteeing our safety ...[READ MORE]

Multi-Pure President's Day Special

  In honor of national President's Day in February, Multi-Pure's President, Alvin E. Rice, would like to offer this special promotion! We want to offer you a 50% discount on our MPCT drinking water system, when you purchase any of our drinking water systems during the month of February. You can buy an MPCT system for only $149.98. This stainless steel model sits on the counter next to the sink. The hose and diverter valve assembly which is attached to the unit connects to ...[READ MORE]

Win A Free Multi-Pure Water Filter – Be A Guest Blogger

We are having a contest and you could win! 1st place prize winner will win a Multi-Pure Aqua Dome Water Filter! ($224.95 value) Multi-Pure Aqua Dome 2nd place prize winner will win a Multi-Pure de-chlorinating shower filter! ($49.95 value) Multi-Pure Shower Filter We are looking for guest bloggers! Simply write a blog on any topic relating to "green", eco friendly products, water, bottled water, plastic pollution, environment, toxins in water, tap water or (anything related to my blog) and ...[READ MORE]

4 Ways to Decorate Your Home with Eco Products

Solar icecaps melting, oceans heating, shoreline disappearing, and sea life dying from unknown causes, what do all of these things have in common? They are effects of global warming. Even one degree is too much when it comes to the delicate balance needed to keep what is frozen, well frozen. Pollution is taking its toll on the environment but so are we as consumers. Here are a few Eco-friendly decorating ideas that will help reduce your footprint: 1. When upgrading your landscape why not ...[READ MORE]

EWG Urges Supporters – Tell Your Senators You Want Safe Drinking Water

In December, EWG published the first national investigation of the suspected carcinogen chromium-6 -- also known as hexavalent chromium -- in drinking water in 35 cities around the country. Recently, Senators Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., and Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., introduced Senate Bill 79, the Protecting Pregnant Women and Children From Hexavalent Chromium Act of 2011. The Boxer/Feinstein bill would require the Environmental Protection Agency to act within a year to set a safe limit for ...[READ MORE]

Why is Fluoride added to city tap water? Video by stormcloudsgathering

A friend of mine sent me the link to a powerful video I would like to share with my readers. If you have any doubt that fluoride is toxic poison after seeing this video, make sure to check out the links and do your own research on the toxic effects of fluoride. Please note. In the video he mentions water filters. You must understand that the most "effective" way of reducing fluoride from tap water is through a reverse osmosis. (regular water filters do NOT remove fluoride).     Fluoride, or ...[READ MORE]

Change.Org petition to congress: stop wasting tax dollars on bottle water

Tell Congress to stop wasting tax dollars on bottled water During and after the State of the Union last Tuesday, President Obama and Congressional Republicans waxed poetic about the need to cut wasteful spending in Washington. Here's an easy place to start: According to Corporate Accountability International, Congress spent nearly $200,000 on bottled water in just three months last year. Recent studies estimate that bottled water costs almost 2,000 times more than tap water – even ...[READ MORE]

New Hampshire Legislators Consider Infant Warning – FAN

The Fluoride Action Network (FAN) is excited to announce that NH State Representative Lars Christiansen has introduced two bills in the New Hampshire Legislature for the 2011 legislative session.  One them, HB312--"An Act relative to notice required for the fluoridation of drinking water", has been referred to the House Health and Human Services committee and will have a public hearing this Tuesday, February 1 at 1pm in room 205 of the Legislative Office Building in Concord, NH ...[READ MORE]