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By the end of the ’80s, Perrier had a whopping 45 percent global market share in bottled water. Then in February of 1990 it all came crashing down for the little green bottle of fizz.
Bottled-water drinkers, we have a problem: There’s a good chance that your water comes from California, ... and a whopping 80 percent of the state’s water supply goes toward agriculture.
Bottled water sales skyrocketed, as did the sale of home water filtration systems. Before that, hundreds of people came down with giardiasis, an intestinal illness that causes prolonged diarrhea ...
Bottled Tap Water . More than 80 percent of recyclable plastic bottles end up in landfills each year. They do not break down naturally and release toxic chemicals when they finally do decompose, ...
The Food and Drug Administration requires bottled water to meet the same standards as tap water from public systems - which is 80 ppb. The FDA doesn't require bottled water companies to inform ...
It's reminiscent of the "Pepsi Challenge" marketing campaign of the 70s and 80s, but this challege pits bottled water against tap water, an effort to sort out what some call misleading tactics ...
Disposable water bottles are a concern for many because, first, they are an environmental nightmare. Second, they are incredibly overpriced. But let’s ignore both those facts for a moment and ...
Now that they’ve grossed us out about bottled water, the Columbia team are looking at how else they can use stimulated Raman scattering microscopy to seek out nanoplastics in other areas of life.