Pure Water Vision

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LOREDANA MANTELLO [ Website ]

ELENA ARZUFFI [ Website ]

EcoArt uses art as a platform for drawing attention to the environment and surrounding issues. Their altruistic endeavor aims to inspire creativity that will raise awareness through various events and exhibitions, such as their current show Pure Water Vision. Featuring a collection of works from the ten finalists of the Acea EcoArt 2010 Pure Water Vision competition, artists explore the relationship between man, water and the environment through photography, video, painting, sculpture or performance.

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Mocking the Designer Water Trend

Here I go again. Yet another subject that gets me on my high horse. To the dismay of many people I drink tap water and think others should too. You know I mean it because I've nagged about it here, here, here, here, here, here and here.
I love it when I find someone who agrees with me.


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5 Reasons Not to Drink Bottled Water

Are you still drinking bottled water? I guess I haven't nagged you enough so here's yet another post from me on the issue.
5 Reasons Not to Drink Bottled Water

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Think outside the bottle

I never pass up an opportunity to rant about the wrongheadedness of drinking bottled water; much of it, like Aquafina and Dasani, is simply bottled tap water. Do I seem a little over the top about it? Perhaps all that tap water I drink has addled my brain.

Aquafina labels to show tap water use

San Francisco's mayor banned city employees from using city funds to buy bottled water when tap water is available. Ann Arbor, Michigan passed a resolution banning commercially bottled water at city events and Salt Lake City, Utah asked department heads to eliminate bottled water.

Critics charge the bottled water industry adds plastic to landfills, uses too much energy by producing and shipping bottles across the world and undermines confidence in the safety and cleanliness of public water supplies, all while much of the world's population is without access to clean water.

Fancy tap water is the new trend

Do you drink bottled water? Are you someone who won't drink water unless it's bottled? Do you only drink a certain brand of bottled water because it's chic, or trendy, or in some way is an extension of who you are?You might be a water snob.But then again, you might be pooh-pooh'd by a new breed of water snobs - those who won't drink anything but tap water.

According to BuzzFeed tap water is the new black. The Nag, always ahead of the curve, was all over this long ago. See what I had to say about it here and here and here.

Inspiration on tap

Why do we buy so much bottled water when there’s a greener alternative in every kitchen? We asked five top advertising agencies to sell us the cheap stuff.

Winning people over to the tap water side one drop at a time.
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Chemical used in water bottles linked to prostate cancer

I've long supected this. I also believe that the process used to manufacture the bottles and the burning of fuel to transport them are worse for our bodies than ingesting most tap water (of course there are exceptions). In many cases the bottled water actually comes from the tap to begin with.

Researchers in the U.S. have linked exposures to trace amounts of bisphenol A, a widely used chemical that leaks from many plastics products, to prostate cancer in animal experiments. The discovery is considered the first direct scientific evidence connecting prostate cancer to bisphenol A, or BPA, a
chemical used to make the polycarbonate for hard plastic water bottles and baby bottles, and the dental sealants used on children's teeth, among its many consumer uses. The dose causing the adverse effect, given to newborn rats, was set by the researchers to be similar to the amounts commonly found in the blood of people in Western countries exposed to polycarbonate plastic and other BPA-containing consumer items. This dose was 60 per cent below levels Health Canada considers safe, and suggests that current regulatory standards may be too lax.

The Politics of Tap Water

Sometimes I think I'm the only person in North America who still drinks water out of the tap. It's free and it doesn't make me sick. Every once in a while I'll drink a bottle of fizzy water but that's different. My kids don't drink tap water and apologize to their friends if that's all we have. Well, I don't apologize and David Rakoff agrees with me, so there. In his second collection of essays Don't Get Too Comfortable he flagellates the narcissism of North Americans, including their penchant for bottled water.
"'It's safe and it's good plus there is a political reason for drinking it,' he says. 'The gas and the vehicles used to transport water all over the continent to people who already have perfectly good drinking water is wasteful and destructive to the environment. Plus, I'm such a cheapskate, it seems crazy to have to buy water in a restaurant.'"