Here’s an interesting piece on the bottled water industry and the slight problems it is encountering as the nation embraces green chic (embodied by high-end restaurants dropping bottled water from their menus). Key takeaway is this - those same groups whose concerns about clean municipal water supplies led to the mass uptake of bottled water as a reliable source of drinking water have now re-thought that strategy as they come to believe that the buildup of bottles in landfills and the high production cost of those bottles has the potential to be far more damaging.

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