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