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Fresh breath drinks from a Japanese cigarette company
Filed under: Water, On the Blogs 
I think it's so strange that a tobacco company is making a supposedly breath freshening bottled water. That's what a Japanese firm is doing, though.
According to Trends in Japan, Japan Tobacco has come up with this product, which is geared for men (it actually has "for men" printed on the labeling). I guess all the cigarette smoking is causing a nation-wide masculine bad breath crisis. Hmm, I guess Japan Tobacco wants to be the solution as well as the problem.
I guess this situation is...
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Is flavored water healthy?
Filed under: Water, Business, Trends, Health & Medical  Wow, the confusion when buying water! These days, when you enter a grocery store and look on the shelf, you can view about 10 different flavored waters, each promising to be the perfect antidote to a specific ailment. There's Vitaminwater, Propel Fitness Water, Function Drinks, Sobe Life Water, Snapple Antioxident water, 24c Vitamin enhanced water, and much more.
Yesterday, I read an article from New York magazine about the entrepreneurs that started Function Drinks. And, for a brief moment, I thought that perhaps all these drinks were not bogus. Dr. Alex Hughes, one...
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Orange County produces the world's most recycled water
Filed under: Water, Health & Medical, Food News  Why are we so disgusted by the simple fact that all the drinking water on earth is recycled wastewater? Unfortunately, the natural recycling process, involving evaporation, condensation, and precipitation, does not deliver enough drinking water to the drier parts of the world. This Sunday, the New York Times Magazine had an article about Orange County's new facility where it's purifying 70 million gallons of recycled water a day.
Many people are skeptical and revolted by the idea that their drinking water is simply purified toilet water. But, if we were to...
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Bottled water proving too expensive a habit to keep in economic tough times
Filed under: Water, Trends, Newspapers 
There is a book that came out recently about our obsession with bottled water called Botllemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It. In it, the author talks about our reliance on bottled water and how tap water is generally as pure or more pure than bottled water.
Americans are getting away from bottled water, but it isn't because of this new book. Apparently bottled water is just too expensive, and in an economic downturn it's one of those luxury items that gets cut. This report...
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It's so much better to make your own carbonated drinks
Filed under: Water, Raves & Reviews, Stores & Shopping, Food Gadgets, Soda  These days, there's all sorts of talk about the environment, about eating fresh and local. However, there's not a lot of talk about what we drink. Cans, plastic bottles, glass bottles -- we go through these at a huge rate. But we don't need to -- at least, not totally. We might not be able to quickly whip up our own beer or wine at home, but we can make all of those tasty carbonated beverages.
As soon as I heard about the Soda Club over at The...
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Why do we like ice?
Filed under: Water, America  I'm always cold. My mom worries that this is do to some circulatory problem. I think this it is due to me being a woman.
I have often wondered why ice comes in every drink I order. In the winter I've typically just come in from the outdoors and I'm freezing. The last thing I want is ice. In the summer, air conditioning is often so strong that I'm freezing indoors and again I don't want ice. I'll tell you when I want ice - when it's hot! I like ice when I'm working or playing outside and sweating. Mark Twain was quoted as saying, "The only distinguishing...
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The Tap Project for clean drinking water
Filed under: Water, Restaurants, On the Blogs  I had heard about this project and completely forgot about it until I was looking at some other food blogs tonight. I'm glad I was reminded though, because the Tap Project is worth remembering and supporting.
If you plan on dining out this week, until March 22, look for a restaurant that's supporting this project. Participating restaurants will collect a $1 donation for each glass of water ordered. All the money goes to UNICEF, the United Nations group which works to help children. The collected donations will be going toward getting clean drinking water...
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Tip of the Day: How to make clear ice cubes
Filed under: Water, Science, How To, Tip of the Day Looking for a way to make your ice cubes crystal clear instead of cloudy?
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Green Daily asks (and answers), what's in our water?
Filed under: Water, On the Blogs 
If the posts that Ellenand I wrote earlier this week about the International Berkeley Water Competition got you thinking about the quality and taste of your own local water, then our friends over at Green Daily have a whole bunch of stuff for you to read. They have put together a feature that tries to answer the question, "What's in our water?" They explore what's safe, what's not and what you can do about. If these are questions that have been plaguing you, head over and give their piece a scan....
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L.A. and B.C. tie for tastiest tap water title
Filed under: Tastings, Water, Newspapers, America 
Yesterday, Marisa told you about the 2008 Berkeley Springs International Water Tasting this past week (what - you didn't attend?), Los Angeles and Clearbrook, British Columbia beat out 120 other entries, including ones from Macedonia and the Philippines, for the title.
Here's a closer look at the competition: the 10 judges based their selections on five criteria: taste, smell, texture, aftertaste, and clarity. They downed water from three categories: municipal, bottled, and the newest, purified.
In case you were wondering, the bottled water winner was Tumai Water from Martinsburg, West Virginia, the purified...
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