Links

Publications

• Water Technology:  http://www.watertechonline.com/
• WaterTech Online:  http://www.watertechonline.com/article.asp?IndexID=6636786
• Cooler Innovation Magazine:  http://www.coolerinnovation.com/  

Environmental Organizations

• NRDC – Natural Resources Defense Council:  http://www.nrdc.org/  

Governing Organizations

• USEPA – US Environmental Protection Agency:  http://www.epa.gov/safewater/links.html
• NSF – National Sanitation Foundation:  http://www.nsf.org/business/drinking_water_treatment/index.asp?program=DrinkingWatTre
• WHO – World Health Organization:  http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/en/   
• AWWA – American Water Works Association:  http://www.awwa.org/  

Drinking Water/Wikipedia:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_water

Green Links

• Photographic artist Chris Jordan of Seattle (www.chrisjordan.com) is known for the social statements his work makes, as well as his ability to create beauty from the ugliness of mass consumption. From his most recent photographic series, "Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait" you can find his work "Plastic Bottles, 2007" which depicts the two million plastic beverage bottles used in the US every five minutes:
  
  http://www.chrisjordan.com/images/current2/1178745781.jpg
  
  Partial Zoom:
  http://www.chrisjordan.com/images/current2/1178475298.jpg
  
  Detail at actual size:
  http://www.chrisjordan.com/images/current2/1178475329.jpg



• ABC News: Ditching Bottled Water to Go Green: Critics of Bottles Say Plastic Containers Foul the Earth (With Video from Nightly News)
  http://abcnews.go.com/WN/GoingGreen/Story?id=3351812&page=1



• Green Tips: Facts about the oil is takes to make/bottle/deliver bottled water:
  http://www.ucsusa.org/publications/greentips/



• The Real Cost of Bottled Water:
  http://www.mercola.com/2001/may/23/bottled_water.htm



• World Wildlife Fund: "Bottled Water Understanding a Social Phenomenon"
  http://assets.panda.org/downloads/bottled_water.pdf



• Environmental News Network: Bottled Water Has High Environmental Costs
  http://www.enn.com/sci.html?id=918



• MSNBC: Plastic Bottled Pile Up as Mountains of Waste
  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5279230/



• "Environmental Insanity" to Drink Bottled Water:
  http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0629-01.htm



• Seattle Post Intelligencer: "Thirst for Bottled Water May Hurt the Environment"
  http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/312412_botwaterweb.html



• New Standard News: "Bottled Water Boycott Highlight Waste, Resource Depletion
  http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/4748



• Food and Water Watch: "Bottled Up and Tapped Out"
  http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/water/bottled/bottledUp-tappedOut



• Food and Water Watch: "Break the Bottled Water Habit"
  http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/water/Alerts/bottled-water



• News.com: "The High Environmental Cost of Bottled Water"
  http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21713939-2,00.html



• The Green Guide: "Consider Its Lifecycle: Bottled Water"
  http://www.thegreenguide.com/doc/101/mos



• NRDC Report: "Bottled Water, Pure Drink or Pure Hype?"
  http://www.nrdc.org/water/drinking/bw/bwinx.asp