Run-up to UN Water Conference: Bottled water masking world’s failure to supply ‘safe water’ for all, says report

Expansion of bottled water industry works against achieving the Sustaianable Development Goal to supply safe drinking water to all by affecting …

US study finds hundreds of thousands of nanoplastic particles in bottled drinking water

Each litre contained 110,000 to 370,000 particles, 90% of them smaller than microplastics

Railways will serve Kinley, Aquafina

No complimentary water pouches with meals on board

The pesticide is the point

Turn on the tap

Why do Americans buy expensive bottled water when they have high quality tap water? That’s been an abiding enquiry for PETER GLEICK. …

You may be drinking tiny pieces of plastic with bottled water

A study says that 93% of bottled water contains microplastics

E coli in a bottle

Packaged trust

Coca-Cola asked to pay Rs 216 crore

Kerala gets tough with soft drink company for polluting Plachimada

Act to make Coca-Cola pay

Kerala passes law on tribunal to secure compensation for victims of bottling plant

San Francisco bans sale of plastic water bottles

Americans use 50 billion plastic water bottles every year and just 23 per cent of them are recycled

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Tourists, not trash

How a popular tourist destination in Sikkim became the first village in India to ban bottled water and manage the trash left behind by tourists, …

Bottled water alternative for drinking is worse than problem

Society is paying for pollution, has become an economic burden

No pesticide check yet

Despite joint parliamentary committee’s concerns, pesticides remain unregulated, finds CSE study

‘Possible carcinogen’ bromate found in Mumbai’s packaged water

Study by BARC scientists stresses the need to define safe limits for by-products like bromate in bottled and drinking water in India