1) for starters, approximately 1.5 million gallons of oil are used to make all of the bottles for bottled water alone, and that is before fuel for the transportation of those bottles is taken into account.

2)90 percent of water bottles are not recycled, ending up in landfills.

3)The growth in bottled water production has increased water extraction in areas near bottling plants, leading to water shortages that affect nearby consumers and farmers.

4)Two gallons of water are wasted in the purification process for every gallon that goes into the bottles.

5) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s standards for tap water are more stringent than the Food and Drug Administration’s standards for bottled water, so, tap water is almost always just as safe as, if not safer than, bottled.


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Buy a filter, and a good reusable bottle, not only will it save you money but it will also help the environment.


Why not wrap it up with a quote from Garrison Keillor, he is far more eloquent than I.

" I am sorry, Evian and San Pellegrino and Dasani and all the other bottled waters out there—Aqua Velva, Wells Fargo, Muddy Waters, Joan Rivers, Jerry Springer, whatever—but the current campaign against paying good money for bottled water when tap water is perfectly good (and very likely purer) is so sensible on the face of it that I am now done with you.

Fini. Kaput. Ausgeschlossen. No more designer water. Water is water. If you want lemon flavoring, add a slice of lemon. You want bubbles, stick a straw in it and blow.

My father, a true conservative, would have smiled on this. All his life he resisted the attempts of big corporations to gouge him by selling him stuff he didn’t need and so he was not a consumer of high-priced water, anymore than he would’ve purchased bottles of French air or Italian soil.

No, San Pellegrino and Perrier got rich off the pretensions of liberal wastrels like moi who thought it set us apart from the unlettered masses. We ordered it in restaurants for the same reason we read books we don’t like and go to operas we don’t understand - we say to the waiter, ”Perrier,” to give a continental touch to our macaroni and cheese.

Enough. Man is capable of reform once presented with the facts, and the fact is that bottling water and shipping it is a big waste of fuel, so stop already. The water that comes to your house through a pipe is good enough, and maybe better."

but you are hurting the cause. As annoying as it is, Hillary supporters have every right to support her until she drops out. If she doesn't drop out after the primaries are over and Obama has the magic number of delegates, maybe more of her supporters will start to question her intentions.

Until then, yes I think they should support Obama, but you can't force them to. They still have the freedom to support their candidate of choice.


Besides, the "you're either with us or against us" is so Bush. Personally, I want to move beyond those tactics and prepare for a strong showing for Obama across all parties.

Please do not bash republicans or independents because they are possible Obama supporters. If you piss them off, they just might go and vote for McCain. Obama's whole campaign has been about reaching out to non-traditional democrat voters. We are going to need all of the non-trad democrats this fall to have a landslide victory for Obama.

So, please, please, please act more like Obama. Maybe DU should make some WWOD bracelets. Then every time an Obama supporter is tempted to make a nasty comment about the opposition, they can just look down at their wrist and do the appropriate thing instead. Kill them with kindness, they won't see it coming.

As of tonight Obama will likely hold the majority of pledged delegates. By the rules put in place before the primary season, every state would have to follow the rules, and the nomination would be decided based upon pledged delegates, which means that barring an immediate change of course by the SDs, Obama will walk away with the nomination and will hopefully be the next POTUS.

I know that some Clinton supporters are going to use the popular vote claim, but neither the primaries nor the GE work on popular vote because the system doesn't work that way. The party and the country work on delegates so that even the smallest state still holds some weight in the decision for president.

To the Clinton supporters: I know that your candidate may have the popular vote when you count some states but not others, on every other blue moon. However, we do not run on the popular vote. Clinton knew that the process didn't run on the popular vote when she stared her campaign.

At this point there is little reason to beg or even ask for the votes of Clinton supporters, if you would rather vote for Nader or McCain over Obama then that is your decision. I would prefer that you vote for Obama in November, but in the end who you vote for is your decision and your decision alone. You will just have to live with the knowledge of who you voted for after the results are taken into account. If you can live with that, good for you. Personally I do not vote party line either, and I have been confident with my decision in every election that I have ever voted in. I hope that every one here can honestly say that have no regrets when it comes to past votes, and will continue to have no regrets for future votes.

So, in closing, vote for who you want in the GE, but be prepared to live with that decision.

Sure, I would love to say that Obama is flawless and his sh*t doesn't stink, but he is human like the rest of us. No truly honest person would have made it as far in politics as the remaining three have.

If we want our president to be a perfect human being then we will never be satisfied. I don't want to say that we are only left with the lesser of two evils, because there is still some good to fight for. There is still some hope, and I know deep down that Obama, HRC , and yes even McCain are probably all well intentioned people. They all want what they believe is best for this country.

I'm sorry if I do not have share the hatred of any of the three candidates with some of you. I have a feeling that my unwillingness to say that McCain is the scourge of the earth will likely piss a lot of you off. All that I can say is that McCain is a helluva lot better than the other republican candidates that were in the primary race.

Maybe I am just banging my head against the wall posting in GD but it is really sad watching us all attack each other like this. Yes I say "us" because I have been guilty of attacks against HRC myself, but come on people we have a much harder race in November that we need to turn our focus to.

I know that my calling for party unity now really only favors Obama, yes I am one of the supporters who has already drank the purple kool-aid. I just personally believe that he has more of the answers correct than either HRC or McCain.

Am I am Obama-tron? Maybe I am, but it isn't a decision that I made lightly. I have spent the past 10 years of my life being actively engaged in politics. From the point that I was old enough to vote I have been working on one campaign or another, or one cause or another. I have stood out in the sleet, snow, and rain registering voters or trying to get enough signatures to get measure on the ballot. Choosing Obama required a lot of thought and careful deliberation.

I cannot demand that you all support my candidate of choice, I wouldn't want to even if I could, but I would like to ask that we all at least refrain from trashing each other over our candidates. I understand that there are those of you out there who may not like Obama, and I know that there are some who like myself do not like HRC, but we all need to get over it. The republicans have their nominee, and we all need to stop tearing at each others throats. This is exactly what they want us to do. They want us to present a candidate in the fall who is so beaten and battered from inter-party squabbling that they no longer have a leg to stand on.

We need to present a strong candidate in the General Election, one that can win the presidency, because in the end, thats what this is really all about.