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@Brother Franics Therese: Thanks for the feedback. We fixed the typos this morning! Are the images showing up yet on your side?

Dear Captain Planet

Thanks for taking the time to write this piece. I was totally unaware of the health dangers involved in drinking out of plastic water bottles, not to mention the negative effect “water mining” has on communities. “The truth will set you free,” – keep it coming!

BTW, none of the images showed up on the page for me maybe my DNS provider is blocking them. Also, just a couple of typos: paragraph before “BPA: Dangerous Chemistry” – Corpus Christi (no “e” at the end); and the first paragraph of the BPA section – does = dose.

I’ll be sharing this with everyone!

-BFT

Thanks for this write-up on World Water Day. Definitely the best I’ve seen.

@NeuroScribe: Thanks for the comments. Over the past year I bought some reusable glass water bottles and fill them up with filtered tap water. I’m trying to get to a plastic-free “diet” to keep it out of my body and out of the environment.

This is a great article which covers myriad of important issues.

The battle for water drilling rights described above reminds me of China and Tibet. I saw a documentary recently which drew attention to an often overlooked fact regarding Tibet. Many people wonder why China is so hungry to control Tibet, after all it isn’t the most fertile land in the world, nor the most livable. If one wants part of the answer, take a look at where Tibet sits on the map and its geography. If you were China, wouldn’t you want access and control to perhaps the biggest region which supplies water to your country and India too?

CBS’s 60mins did a show on bottled water before bottled water was the rage. They asked people why they loved the water, people relied “it’s better tasting than the local water” The water’s source was in fact the city water.