{"id":4542,"date":"2009-06-08T13:00:56","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T19:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=4542"},"modified":"2009-06-08T13:00:56","modified_gmt":"2009-06-08T19:00:56","slug":"greener-bottled-water-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/greener-bottled-water-really\/","title":{"rendered":"Greener Bottled Water? Really?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/files\/2009\/06\/nika-water.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4543\" src=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/files\/2009\/06\/nika-water.jpg\" alt=\"nika bottled water\" width=\"500\" height=\"643\" \/><\/a><strong>Still have bottled water as a regular item on the grocery list? Or just pick up the occasional bottle when you&#8217;re out? It&#8217;s so convenient&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As you probably know, that convenience comes at an environmental and social price: documentaries such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sundancechannel.com\/films\/500334244\/\" target=\"new\">FLOW<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thirstthemovie.org\/\" target=\"new\"><em>Thirst<\/em><\/a>, organizations such as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sierraclub.org\/committees\/cac\/water\/bottled_water\/bottled_water.pdf\" target=\"new\">Sierra Club<\/a> and <a href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/..\/2008\/03\/26\/environmental-defense-fund-bottles-bottles-everywhere\/\" target=\"new\">Environmental Defense Fund<\/a>, and even a few of us lowly <a href=\"http:\/\/chrisbaskind.greenoptions.com\/2007\/06\/20\/lighter-footstep-5-reasons-not-to-drink-bottled-water\/\" target=\"new\">bloggers<\/a>, have reported on the costs created by water&#8217;s transformation from a freely-available resource to a multi-billion dollar commodity. That bottle of water you buy now contributes to the world&#8217;s third-largest industry.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->That industry has responded with new <a href=\"http:\/\/ecopreneurist.com\/2008\/12\/15\/lessons-from-the-greenwash-police\/\" target=\"new\">packaging designs<\/a>, and some localities are now <a href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/..\/2008\/01\/08\/groundbreaking-bottled-water-tax-raises-dustup-in-chicago\/\" target=\"new\">taxing<\/a>, or even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/files\/2008\/03\/city-of-seattle-bottled-water-ban.php\" target=\"new\">banning<\/a>, bottled water. A new player on the scene, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikawater.org\/\" target=\"new\">Nika Water<\/a>, is trying to move a few steps further in greening its bottled water offering. Is it enough? Take a look at what they&#8217;re doing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read the rest of this post on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sundancechannel.com\/sunfiltered\/2009\/06\/bottled-water-green\/\">bottled water<\/a> at the Sundance Channel&#8217;s SUNfiltered blog.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still have bottled water as a regular item on the grocery list? Or just pick up the occasional bottle when you&#8217;re out? It&#8217;s so convenient&#8230; As you probably know, that&nbsp;[ &hellip; ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":4543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,79,21],"tags":[221,1966,3427,47,482,3428],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Greener Bottled Water? 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