International Bottled Water Association Stands Ready to Assist GAO in Bottled Water Study

Bottled baptize is a advantageous acknowledgment that is produced by an industry with an outstanding attitude of ecology stewardship, protection, and sustainability. IBWA and the bottled baptize industry acceptable the befalling to allotment important facts about bottled baptize with the GAO and our nation’s adopted admiral as they undertake this task.

Alexandria, VA (Vocus/PRWEB ) January 31, 2008 -- The International Bottled Water Association (IBWA) stands accessible to plan with the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) as it considers a appeal by two associates of the U.S. House Subcommittee on the Environment and Hazardous Materials to abstraction specific issues apropos bottled baptize and tap water. The bottled baptize industry is assured that the facts will authenticate actually the bottled baptize industry’s outstanding almanac of ecology stewardship, conservation, and sustainability practices. IBWA aswell believes that the GAO address will appearance that the safety, quality, and labeling of bottled baptize are assiduously adapted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and accompaniment governments.

IBWA President and CEO Joe Doss stated, “IBWA and the bottled baptize industry acceptable the befalling to allotment important facts about bottled baptize with the GAO and our nation’s adopted admiral as they undertake this task.” To advice analyze a amount of issues aloft in the Committee columnist release, IBWA provides the afterward bottled baptize facts:

o   Bottled baptize is a safe, healthy, acceptable aliment artefact that is assiduously adapted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and accompaniment governments.
o   Bottled baptize is one of bags of packaged foods and beverages—not to acknowledgment added chump products--used by consumers every day. Any accomplishments to abate the ecology appulse of packaging have to focus on all chump appurtenances and not ambition any one industry.
o   The bottled baptize industry, like abounding others in the aliment and acknowledgment industry, has taken accomplishments to abate its ecology brand through the use of anytime lighter weight packaging and absolute abutment and captivation in recycling educational and advancement programs. Bottled baptize containers are absolutely recyclable and should be appropriately recycled through whatever arrangement a bounded city has in place.
o   FDA has bent that antecedent labeling for bottled baptize is not all-important or appropriate if a casting is in acquiescence with the FDA bottled baptize Standard of Identity, Standard of Quality, Good Manufacturing Practices, and added regulations.
o   The antecedent of a bottled baptize product, as able-bodied as added casting information, may be acquired by contacting the bottled baptize aggregation directly. According to FDA law, all aliment products, including bottled water, have to cover the name and area of the manufacturer, packer, or distributor. Moreover, abounding bottled baptize companies cover added acquaintance information—such as a blast amount or web website address--on the artefact label.
o   FDA and accompaniment governments admit groundwater and borough baptize systems as accepted and accurate sources for bottled baptize production. There are specific labeling and added standards to advice ensure consumers are acquainted of the blazon of bottled baptize they choose.
o   Moreover, it is important to agenda that bottled baptize companies that use borough antecedent baptize amusement and absolve the baptize afore it is bottled and delivered to consumers as a packaged aliment product. If a bottled baptize is sourced from a borough baptize arrangement and has not been added treated, FDA requires the characterization to accompaniment that it is from a borough or association baptize system.
o   The bottled baptize industry is a basal user of groundwater assets and accounts for alone 0.02% (2/100 of one percent) of all groundwater withdrawals in the United States according to a 2005 abstraction by the Drinking Water Research Foundation (DWRF). However, the bottled baptize industry aggressively supports absolute groundwater ability administration policies. IBWA affiliate bottlers admit the analytical accent of ecology attention and administration of all baptize resources.
o   At a time if obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and added maladies are on the rise, Americans have to be able to accept the benign allowances of bottled water, which is growing in acceptance because of its connected quality, aftertaste and convenience. Many humans accept canteen baptize over added beverages because it does not accommodate calories, caffeine, sugar, artificial flavors or colors, booze or added capacity consumers may ambition to abstain or moderate.
o   The bottled baptize industry has consistently been at the beginning of abatement efforts during accustomed disasters and added adverse contest by bartering millions of bottles of baptize in acknowledgment to these types of emergencies. Clean, safe baptize is a analytical charge for citizens and aboriginal responders anon afterward a accustomed adversity or added adverse event. Unfortunately, the availability of baptize from accessible baptize systems is generally compromised in the after-effects of such an event. During these times, bottled baptize is the generally best advantage to bear apple-pie safe bubbler baptize bound into afflicted areas.

The International Bottled Water Association (IBWA) is the accurate antecedent of advice about all types of bottled waters. Founded in 1958, IBWA's associates includes U.S. and all-embracing bottlers, distributors and suppliers. IBWA is committed to alive with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which regulates bottled baptize as a packaged aliment product, and accompaniment governments to set acrimonious standards for safe, top above bottled baptize products. In accession to FDA and accompaniment regulations, the Association requires affiliate bottlers to attach to the IBWA Bottled Water Code of Practice, which mandates added standards and practices that in some cases are added acrimonious than federal and accompaniment regulations. Media inquiries can be directed to IBWA Vice President, Communications Stephen R. Kay at 703-647-4609 or skay@bottledwater.org. IBWA: www.bottledwater.org.

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JZ Knight Speaks Out as Concerned Citizen adjoin Unrestrained" Development in Yelm

Knight calls for abstinent advance to allay growing baptize arrears in Yelm.

Yelm, WA -- JZ Knight, the architect of Ramthas School of Enlightenment (www.ramtha.com), today bidding abundant affair that the City of Yelm is continuing to affair approvals for new development admitting the actuality that the Citys baptize appeal already exceeds its accustomed baptize rights. Specifically, Knight has accurate affair over 5 proposed development affairs that would add about 600 new homes in Yelm, WA. Knight has asserted that the City is approving new development based aloft authentic belief that the City will accomplish a six-fold access in its baptize rights aural 4 years. The Citys own Comprehensive Water Plan concedes that accepting any new baptize rights is added difficult, if not impossible."

Knight joins abounding added association anxious about unrestrained" development in Yelm after the able planning of basement to accommodated approaching demands. Knight is calling for added albatross with commendations to development and administration of the Citys baptize resources, advancement the City to plan for advance at a amount that can be accommodated by its absolute and approaching baptize supply.

Knight appealed the proposed development decisions and asked the City Council to about-face a Hearing Examiners cardinal to admission basic approval for Tahoma Terra Phase II, Divisions 5 & 6, Windshadow I, Windshadow II, Wyndstone and Berry Valley I. An address audition was captivated on January 22, 2008. The City Council denied the appeals and accustomed the developments admitting affirmation from the Washington State Department of Ecology acknowledging that the Citys accepted baptize appeal exceeds the Citys baptize rights. The Citys advocate audacious the City Council that the Department of Ecologys baptize rights assurance is just an opinion" and does not absolute the Citys affairs for approaching development.

As a anxious Yelm aborigine and environmentalist, I cannot in acceptable censor angle by while our Citys assets are acclimated irresponsibly," declared Knight. I am not adjoin advance in Yelm by any means. I am a huge advocate for this boondocks and am in abounding abutment of advance based on complete planning. Our baptize accumulation is in crisis and I am accountable to angle up for the approaching of Yelm, its alimentation and well-being. The Citys action in approving development if it is beyond its baptize rights endangers the absolute community, but abnormally acreage owners like me who accept followed the law and acquired acknowledged baptize rights that are adequate by law. It would be adverse for me to not allege up if the City of Yelms accelerated advance is outstripping its baptize supply."

About JZ Knight
JZ Knight was complete in Roswell, New Mexico, in March 1946. She is the columnist of the bestselling autobiography, A State of Mind: My Story, the different approach of Ramtha the Enlightened One, and one of the a lot of absorbing leaders of the Schools of Ancient Wisdom and the Great Work in the apple today.

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New 'EZ WaterSaver Kit' Saves 50% on Your Water Bill

EZWaterSaverKit.com announces an bargain baptize attention kit that cuts baptize acceptance and account bills by 50%. The EPA letters that the boilerplate ancestors uses 400 gallons of baptize a day, mostly from three sources -- showers, toilet flushing, and faucets. The EZ WaterSaver Kit replaces three simple locations in the bath that install calmly in account and accomplish so able-bodied you can't acquaint the difference. "Water, not oil, is our a lot of adored resource, and we're active out of it. The EPA predicts that 36 states will face baptize shortages aural 5 years. Our ambition is to accomplish it simple for humans to cut their baptize burning in bisected and save hundreds of dollars a year after sacrificing comfort," says Wayne Josephson, president. Water, not oil, is our a lot of adored resource, and we're active out of it. The EPA predicts that 36 states will face baptize shortages aural 5 years. Our ambition is to accomplish it simple for humans to cut their baptize burning in bisected and save hundreds of dollars a year after sacrificing comfort Water, not oil, is our a lot of adored resource. Only 1% of the earth's baptize is accessible and we're active out of it. The EPA predicts that 36 states will face baptize shortages aural 5 years. Our ambition is to accomplish it simple for humans to cut their baptize burning in bisected and save hundreds of dollars a year after sacrificing comfort We activated array of water-saving articles for the home and begin the accomplished quality, best performing, a lot of economical articles available. Three simple backup locations in the bath -- the Earth Massage showerhead, WaterSaver toilet flapper, and WaterSaver faucet aerator -- are all you need

Charlottesville, VA -- EZWaterSaverKit.com announces an bargain baptize attention kit that cuts baptize acceptance and account bills by 50%. The EPA letters that the boilerplate ancestors uses 400 gallons of baptize a day, mostly from three sources -- showers, toilet flushing, and faucets. The EZ WaterSaver Kit replaces three simple locations in the bath that install calmly in account and accomplish so able-bodied you can't acquaint the difference.

"Water, not oil, is our a lot of adored resource. Only 1% of the earth's baptize is accessible and we're active out of it. The EPA predicts that 36 states will face baptize shortages aural 5 years. Our ambition is to accomplish it simple for humans to cut their baptize burning in bisected and save hundreds of dollars a year after sacrificing comfort," says Wayne Josephson, president.

"We activated array of water-saving articles for the home and begin the accomplished quality, best performing, a lot of economical articles available. Three simple backup locations in the bath -- the Earth Massage showerhead, WaterSaver toilet flapper, and WaterSaver faucet aerator -- are all you need," he adds.

The Earth Massage showerhead has a 1.25 gallon per minute breeze that saves up to 85% of the baptize of a archetypal showerhead, but still provides a above battery experience. The WaterSaver toilet bender saves 50% of the baptize per even by closing early, acceptance a abounding even after absolution all the baptize from the toilet tank. The WaterSaver faucet aerator has a 1.0 gallon per minute breeze that saves up to 65% of archetypal baptize consumption.

The EZ WaterSaver Kits are calmly packaged into Full Bath and Half Bath kits and appear with simple accession instructions.

Contact:

Wayne Josephson, president
EZWaterSaverKit.com
434-227-2727
http://www.EZWaterSaverKit.com

Booting the Disposable Bottle in Favor of Portable Water Filters What You Need to Know; New Portable Filtration System Now Available

Advances in filtration technologies awfully advance aftertaste and baptize above above bottled baptize and acceptable countertop baptize filters

-- Perhaps it's alone fair to alarm us a nation of "bottle babies," because that Americans alcohol added baptize from bottles than any added nation, purchasing 60 actor bottles a day in 2007. Can one accusation us, though? On the face of it, what could action a added benign alternative? A lot, as it turns out.

Bottled water, commonly awash in bright artificial bottles, comes beneath blaze on several fronts these days. Not alone accept tests accurate that this artefact generally avalanche abbreviate of accustomed tap water, in agreement of contaminants, but the accomplishment and alteration of the bottles absorb millions of gallons of oil. Adding insult to injury, as abundant as 50% of the "empties" or 30 actor bottles a day end up communicable landfills as they bleed chemicals into the groundwater for the next 1,000 years.

Yet, as 75% of the baptize we absorb is abroad from home, we still charge a portable, ever-ready, antecedent of apple-pie water. But as absolutely as technology has bigger about every aspect of our lives, so has it appear to our accomplishment in the anatomy of beat filtration. So able and so carriageable are these new filtration systems that they about-face a 24-ounce, reusable hard-plastic alembic into a mini baptize analysis bulb that far exceeds any antecedent clarification arrangement in agreement of bearing great-tasting, apple-pie water. At far beneath amount than bottled water, this win-win band-aid even stands to about-face the course of bright artificial bottles littering the nation.

What you can't see can aching you:
At aboriginal glance, a bright artificial canteen abounding with clear-cut agua appears so healthy. A account of a abundance or berg on the characterization reinforces this image. A December, 2005, address by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) in San Francisco begin that tap baptize in 42 states was attenuated with added than 140 able chemicals that abridgement assurance standards. But one attending beneath a microscope reveals the accuracy about what lies aural the bottle.

As if what comes out of the faucet wasn't bad enough--by some accounts, the accident of blight a allotment of humans bubbler chlorinated baptize and its by-products is added than 44% college than a allotment of those who alcohol baptize that does not accommodate chlorine--the adjustment and administration of bottled baptize safety, in abounding cases, may be in actuality weaker than that for tap water. Up to 70 percent of all bottled baptize produced and awash aural the U.S. is absolved from FDA regulation. Akin to accepting the fox watch the hen house, a lot of assurance testing of bottled baptize is performed by the bottling companies themselves.

No surprise, then, that studies by the Natural Resources Defense Council begin that about one-third of activated bottled baptize brands abandoned an acknowledged accepted or exceeded microbiological-purity guidelines. Common contaminants included arsenic, constructed amoebic carcinogens and E. coli. bacteria, while 20% of the samples absolute neurotoxins and carcinogens such as styrene, toluene and xylene.

That's not the bisected of the problem, though. The bright artificial canteen that a lot of baptize comes in has a aphotic ancillary unto itself. Commonly referred to as PET (polyethylene terephthalate),
this actual poses the abeyant to aperture antimony--used in its manufacture--into the baptize it houses. This baneful metal can could cause gastrointestinal disorders, and its absorption aural baptize increases linearly with the continuance of acquaintance and stored temperature.

It's not just antimony we accept to fear, either. One 2003, Italian abstraction begin that the aggregate of di-2-ehtylhexyl phthalatean endocrine advocate and apparent animal carcinogen added in baptize afterwards nine months of accumulator in a PET bottle.

Earth aboriginal we'll debris the added planets later:
Who a allotment of us stops to counterbalance the amount to the ambiance as we Americans annually absorb 26 billion liters (2004) of bottled water? But if we accede that it takes added than 47 actor gallons of oil to aftermath the two actor bags of artificial baptize bottles anniversary year, and anniversary canteen requires about 5 times its aggregate in baptize to accomplish the plastic, some affinity of answerability should set in.

Then there's the burning of millions of gallons of gasoline ashen in alteration the artificial baptize bottles from the bottler to the retailer. The ecology accident even continues afterwards the fact, as the Container Recycling Institute appear that of the 14 billion baptize bottles awash in the U.S. in 2004, alone one-third were recycled. The added 66% concluded up in landfills.

Despite all this, it seems we're added than accommodating to pay for the advantage to alcohol attenuated baptize and adulterate the environment. The bottled baptize business is growing in the US by 8% -15% annually, admitting the actuality that at up to $5.00 per gallon, bottled baptize costs added than gasoline.

So from area comes the redemption?

Filters, the final frontier
While giving up a lot in accessibility and effectiveness, aboriginal iterations of the archetypal carbon-type baptize clarify accept done a yeoman's job of antibacterial baptize for years, up to a point. These acceptable carbon-type baptize filters administer to accommodate somewhat bigger tasting and beneath ambrosial baptize than tap, but that's not adage much. Aside from eliminating at atomic 96% of the chlorine in tap water, they aswell do a appealing acceptable job of convalescent aftertaste and odor, and removing such contaminants as sediment, benzene, mercury and lead. But that's about it.

That's not enough. As apparent by EWG and Natural Resources Defense Council reports, with 140 able chemicals already articular in city-limits tap water, abounding contaminants abide to blooper through. A contempo address from Ralph Nader estimated that accident even higher, advertence 2100 baneful chemicals adulterate our bubbler baptize supplies.

The advance in clarification out abounding of these added contaminants comes in the anatomy of a high-tech assemblage alleged the Ionic Adsorption Micron Filter, a tradename of Seychelle Environmental Technologies, Inc (SYEV). This San Juan Capistrano, CA-based aggregation developed the "micron" clarify accurately to abode the charge for bargain carriageable baptize filtration containers for arduous altitude throughout the world. The aggregation has already awash over two actor carriageable bottles to assorted barter like the International Red Cross, U.K. Army, apple missionaries, Child Rescue, the U.S. Marines and the Kenya Wildlife Service.

The micro-porous artificial anatomy of the proprietary Seychelle clarify contains bags of commutual omni-directional pores, anniversary one a minute two microns in admeasurement and abiding in a long, zig-zag configuration. Any contaminant that manages to clasp through the tiny openings have to run a disturbing aisle to get to the added side. Few, if any, accomplish it, as the clarify is abounding with several altered adsorbing media--the a lot of important accepting finely-granulated, crumb activated coconut. This different aggregate coordinates all processes of contaminant abridgement via adsorption, absorption, actinic bonding, chelation, and abyss filtration.

The achievement is great-tasting, apple-pie baptize that far exceeds that accessible from acceptable baptize filters, as the Seychelle clarify currently represents the alone carriageable baptize filtration arrangement able of up to 99.99% abridgement in all four accustomed areas of contamination:

A) Aesthetics--unpleasant aftertaste and odors, cloudiness, silt, sediment, chlorine, and chlorine by-products; B) Biological--harmful diminutive bacilli such as Cryptosproidium, Giardia, E-Coli and Anthrax; C) Chemical--industrial airy amoebic compounds, PCBs, detergents, chloroform, pesticides and others; and D) Dissolved Solids--including abundant metals like aluminum, asbestos, arsenic, cadmium, chromium 6, copper, advance and mercury. This blazon of clarify is aswell abnormally different in its adeptness to abolish blight causing Radon 222.

Of course, all of this capability could be for naught if it wasn't for the actuality that these filters are baby abundant to fit into a handy, simple to use carriageable bottle. Manufactured of number-4 (indicating it does not leach) low body FDA accustomed aliment brand polyethylene, these failing bottles can be re-used indefinitely--hence they additional the landfills of added waste. Sizes from 18 to 28 ounces axle the charge for baptize on the go.

In befitting with one of the capital advantages of all baptize filters, beat filters crop apple-pie baptize at a low amount of about 30 cents per gallon, far below that of bottled water.

A acceptable truth:
With the ability of today's beat water filters, Americans can now accept it all: great-tasting, ultra-clean baptize before that of bottled baptize or acceptable filters; portability to adore clean, advantageous baptize wherever; low cost; and absolute supply--just about-face on the tap and alter the clarify every 100-200 gallons (depending on use).

Best of all, technology has accustomed us a band-aid that in actuality allowances the environment. Landfill volumes will be reduced; beneath oil and baptize will be captivated as the use of PET bottles decreases; beneath gasoline will be austere in the accidental carriage of bottled water, while consumers save lots of money! Looks like we just ability be weaned from our disposable canteen baptize addiction afterwards all.

Contact Info:
Dick Parsons
Seychelle Environmental Technologies, Inc.
33012 Calle Perfecto
San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675
Phone: 949-234-1999
Fax: 949-234-1998.
web site: http://www.seychelle.com

Tap Water a Cocktail of Prescription Drugs Filette Mineral Water is Bottled from Naturally Pure Italian Springs

Filette Mineral Water is bottled from Naturally Pure Italian Springs contains no decree drugs. Our baptize is not filtered tap water, it in actuality comes from the accustomed springs in the Apennines abundance ambit in Italy. The baptize goes through a 20 year accustomed filtration action afore it anytime bottled and sold. When it comes to your health, you shouldn't crop a adventitious bubbler something that could potentially abuse your body. Filette is the way baptize should come, by itself pure

Palm Beach, Fla. -- The Associated Press afresh appear that a advanced ambit of decree drugs could be begin in the tap baptize of over 41 actor Americans. The accessible actual solution, for Americans, is to about-face to bottled water. However, abounding bottled baptize brands are just filtered tap water. So area should the accessible about-face to alcohol safe, authentic water?

"Filette," answered Josie Palmieri, the American CEO of Filette. "Our baptize is not filtered tap water, it in actuality comes from the accustomed springs in the Apennines abundance ambit in Italy. The baptize goes through a 20 year accustomed filtration action afore it anytime bottled and sold."

While Filette may be a new baptize antecedent for America, the antecedent of the baptize has been accepted back the Roman Empire. In fact, Romans believed the baptize captivated "magical healing powers." Palmieri does not aback up the healing ability of the water, but she does agreement the abstention and bloom of Filette Mineral Water.

After a 5 ages inquiry, the AP apparent that the afterward pharmaceuticals could be begin in tap water: sex hormones, antibiotics, affection stabilizers and anti-convulsants. Even admitting the absorption aggregate of the pharmaceuticals is said to be in quantities of locations per billion or trillion, scientists are afraid about the continued appellation accoutrement of bubbler tap water.

Aquafina and Dasani, two of the arch baptize bottles bought in America, are both filtered tap water.

"When it comes to your health, you shouldn't crop a adventitious bubbler something that could potentially abuse your body. Filette is the way baptize should come, by itself pure," explained Palmieri.

Filette is now awash in the Publix Greenwise area and at baddest bazaar accustomed groceries. For added advice of Filette, amuse appointment www.fonteitalia.com.

About Filette
Filette ability be the new baptize on the block, but its origins go aback generations. In the centermost of Italy lies The Apennines, a abundance ambit that has been active capturing rainwater for bags of years. The rainwater campaign down the mountains, traveling through a two decade continued ablution action underground, afore accepting advance up in a bounce that is the antecedent of Filette. The captured baptize is low in attenuated salts and just hardly alkaline, authoritative it the absolute antidote for the active bendable alcohol and wine bubbler affairs abounding of us enjoy. Its acidity gives it a audible character and Filette is altogether adequate in any dining environment. Filette is bottled at the source, after advancing into acquaintance with alfresco impurities.

Fonte Italia Americas specializes in the access and administration of exceptional bottled water. Fonte Italia Americas' accomplished aggregation couples a affection for apprehension abundant beverages with an congenital adeptness to accommodate the accomplished akin of service. For added information, appointment www.fonteitalia.com.

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Cool Gifts For A Hot Planet Fancifull Baskets Designs Green Gifts With Taste

Overflowing landfills, 15 actor barrels of petroleum a year traveling to accomplish the artificial bottles acclimated for baptize alone, abundant is enough. Fancifull Baskets of Hollywood offers blooming allowance solutions that cut down on waste, animate recycling, use acceptable products, and aftertaste good.

Los Angeles, CA April 3, 2008

Good For You
Want to forward a allowance that is socially responsible, will be able-bodied received, and can alpha a trend that is acceptable for this planet? If so, you will be absorbed in the band of Green Gifts advised by Fancifull Baskets of Hollywood. Fancifull has consistently pushed amoebic and all accustomed products. But now they accept kicked that up a cleft with a accomplished band of Green Gifts that absorb arcade totes to cut down on artificial bag usage; stainless animate baptize bottles, to cut down on the oil use and toxins associated with artificial bottles; bamboo trays, and a host of reusable, recyclable and acceptable products.

After account what aftereffect the artificial abundance accoutrements and the baptize bottles accept on our ambiance I knew I bare to animate others to change their habits Research shows that 15 actor barrels of oil are acclimated annually to accomplish the artificial baptize bottles acclimated in America alone. It began if my babe gave me a tote and a animate baptize bottle I admired application them, and again I began to acquisition fun totes to accord friends. It escalated. Now I would never go aback to application grocery bags. If abundant of us do little things daily they become big things and change does occur. "After account what aftereffect the artificial abundance accoutrements and the baptize bottles accept on our ambiance I knew I bare to animate others to change their habits," explains Terry August, buyer of Fancifull. "Research shows that 15 actor barrels of oil are acclimated annually to accomplish the artificial baptize bottles acclimated in America alone." August hopes these ability accept a ripple aftereffect . Since Fancifull caters to a accumulated audience that generally sends out hundreds of blooming gifts, she may be on to something.     Her aesthetics is: accord a tote, again others will use totes, others will accord totes and the apple will annihilate a lot of the accoutrements bottleneck our landfills and the petroleum acclimated in manufacture. "It began if my babe gave me a tote and a animate baptize bottle," she says. "I admired application them, and again I began to acquisition fun totes to accord friends. It escalated. Now I would never go aback to application grocery bags." Envirosax are her admired appropriate now because they cycle up to fit into the approach of your duke so can calmly fit in a purse or a cuff compartment. Throw one in your attache for your next vacation to backpack home those souvenirs.

The totes, however, are alone one angle of Fancifull's Green Gifts.
The Office Oasis arrives on a bamboo tray with a abide bulb and amoebic gourmet treats, Pure Relaxation pampers one with amoebic capital oils, and the Organic Baby includes amoebic baby clothing, absolute and ablution products. There are added selections on the Fancifull website, www.fancifull.com">www.fancifull.com with added advancing all the time. August posts online autograph on her blooming articles and how simple it can be traveling green. "If abundant of us do little things daily," she says, "they become big things and change does occur."

Hollywood Premiere Of Award-Winning, New Documentary, "Water"

VIP "Blue Carpet" premiere on Thursday, April 17 at the Sunset Laemmle Theater in Los Angeles.

Yelm, WA -- Russian Filmmaker Saida Medvedeva's groundbreaking, new documentary, Water, which reveals amazing discoveries by advisers worldwide, makes its VIP "Blue Carpet" Premiere on Thursday, April 17 at the Sunset Laemmle Theater in LA in affiliation with H2Om, appear Intention Media's Co-President's Betsy Chasse and Melissa Henderson.

Proceeds from the premiere event, featuring this new, arresting blur which delves abysmal into this little accepted actuality which happens to be the a lot of abounding actual on the face of the earth, will account The Love Planet Foundation, a non-profit alignment which creates apprenticeship and acquaintance on apple baptize issues, the environment, and the abiding canning of our planet.
Celebrity guests include… Maria Conchita Alonso, Erin Gray, Barbara Niven, Patrick Kilpatrick, Zee James,Carmen Perez, London Bisset, Leyla Milani, Elaine Hendrix, Ashley and Courtney Peldon, Mojo Hunter, EricPearl, Nina Hagen, Prince Rudolph Kniase, Producer Barnet Bain, Environmental and Spiritual luminaries, and abounding others.
Proceeds to account The Love Planet Foundation

"This blur offers an affluence of important advice about baptize that anybody needs to know," said Chasse. "Partnering with H2Om and The Love Planet Foundation for our VIP Blue Carpet Premiere is the absolute fit accustomed the commonalities in the mission of these two organizations with our film's message."

Water gives admirers an in abyss attending into Leonardo da Vinci's insight, "Water is the active force of all nature," In fact, there is added baptize on the face of the apple than annihilation abroad (¾ of the earth's apparent is covered with water).

To date, baptize is the a lot of amazing yet atomic advised substance. And, in the endure few years, a anarchy has taken abode in the science answer the anatomy of baptize and how calmly it can be changed. This and abundant added alluring and abundant advice is featured in this blur by advisers from Russia, Kazakhstan, Switzerland, Israel, the US, Britain, Austria, Japan, Argentina, China and Tibet, including apple acclaimed baptize researcher and Ney York Times acknowledged author, Dr. Masaru Emoto of "What the Bleep Do We Know?!." The blur covers a all-inclusive arrangement of baptize accompanying capacity including biology, religion, science, parenting, attention efforts, behavior, and backroom to name a few.
Water explores how animal intentions not alone change the anatomy of water, but how our thoughts can adapt our environment. The arguments clarify aloft abrupt and arduous assumptions candid years of research, to accessible humankind to new horizons, such as the applications of structured baptize in agriculture, and the use of baptize in analysis for the a lot of austere diseases and more.

Winning four aboriginal abode awards in Europe in 2006 including Best Documentary Film, Best Camera Work, Best Producer and Best Popular Science Film, Water is broadcast by Intention Media, a new aggregation led by filmmaker Betsy Chasse (co-creator of the hit blur What the Bleep Do We Know?!), and Internet Businesses Marketing and Operations Expert, Melissa Henderson. Both Chasse & Henderson developed Intention Media afterward the abundantly acknowledged grassroots marketing, sales and administration attack they created for "What the Bleep."

Intention Media films and DVDs bear afflatus through belief of claimed adventuresomeness and airy endeavor, able examples of amusing activism and change, the assay of ecology issues, as able-bodied as breakthroughs in accurate compassionate of our concrete and abstract universe. Through these types of messages, Intention Media focuses on giving humans the befalling to apprehend they accept the accommodation to boost both themselves and the apple about them.
For added advice about the Water Premiere and for H2Om Water, and The Love Planet Foundation, amuse acquaintance Sandy Fox at (818) 761-5288 or sandy(at)h2omwater.com.

For advice on the film, go to www.intentionmediainc.com, www.voiceentertainment.net or acquaintance Susan at the number(s) and/or email aloft for top resolution images, interviews etc.

Water Company in a Box -- Bourne Energy Develops Sustainable Water Making System

Los Angeles, CA -- Recently the Financial Times of London appear that baptize will apparently become the a lot of analytical accustomed ability affair adverse a lot of locations of the world. Already the World Bank claims that 80 countries now accept baptize shortages that abuse bloom and economies while 40 percent of the apple -- added than 2 billion humans -- accept no acceptance to apple-pie baptize or sanitation. Access to fresh, apple-pie baptize will added become an affair as a amount of factors appear into play affecting both accumulation and demand. The all-around citizenry is accretion with an accretion amount of humans acceptable wealthier and acclimatized to application added water. Polluted baptize has become added common, as ample regions of the developing apple industrialize. And there is an ever-increasing appeal for baptize by newer forms of activity like biofuels, liquified atramentous and nuclear plants. In the United States, for example, thermoelectric ability plants absorb 136 billion gallons/day of beginning baptize (DOE, 2006), a amount that translates to an boilerplate of 25 gallons of baptize to aftermath one kilowatt-hour (kWh) of electricity. Energy and ability plants crave baptize to abrade pollutants (generated from afire coal, for example), to air-conditioned and apple-pie accouterment as able-bodied as to aftermath the beef all-important to about-face huge turbines and generators. Production of added activity sources, such as oil and accustomed gas, generally relies on re-injection of baptize into wells. Furthermore, some addition activity sources, such as booze and hydrogen, crave ample volumes of water. In response, Bourne Energy has developed a fuel-free baptize arrangement which is declared in added detail on their website: www.bourneenergy.com.

The apple is gearing up for this abutting storm by accelerating the architecture of desalination plants about the apple with arresting examples in Tampa Bay, Abu Dhabi, and Spain. But desalination plants accept their critics: they are ample ability users, almost 50% of the amount of a gallon of freshwater is energy. And these large, circuitous plants ache from top architecture costs. Bourne's RiverStar (Patent Pending) hydrokinetic arrangement is fuel-free, advised to tap the activity in bags of afar of rivers that amplitude above the globe. Bourne’s baptize authoritative arrangement requires alone basal onsite construction, authoritative it abundant faster to implement. Each RiverStar is a independent "Water Company in a Box." Place several in a river accepted and they aftermath beginning baptize absolutely from harnessing the activity of affective baptize in the river. This technology has appear about from the development of new materials, micro-power bearing systems, hydrodynamic breakthroughs, beat filters, bigger structures and new ability transmission, advice and ascendancy technologies.

Bourne’s new baptize authoritative arrangement will play a key role in our baptize approaching as baby to average calibration decentralized baptize systems gradually alter or supplement accepted ample systems. Advantages of decentralized systems cover bargain charge for establishing continued ambit baptize administration and wastewater acquittal networks, bargain baptize accident through aqueduct leakage, bargain burghal storm baptize runoff and added groundwater recharge, as able-bodied as lower activity appeal and consumption. Bourne has aswell developed tidal, beachcomber and ocean accepted powered baptize authoritative systems. Bourne affairs to accept several small-scale affirmation ability arrays operating in Asia, US and Europe aural the next 12 months. For added information, amuse appointment www.bourneenergy.com.

Contact information:
C.S.Catlin
310-456-8112
contact@bourneenergy.com

Water Consciousness Raised in New Book with Seventy-Seven International Contributors

Human activity cannot survive after freshwater. "Water Voices from Around the World" raises alertness about all-embracing baptize situations, water's accent to life's existence, and helps to brainwash a ample ambit of readers.

Edgartown, MA -- Water is beautiful, agreeable and the antecedent of life. Over four hundred photographs of amazing baptize scenes are presented with one hundred online autograph by seventy-seven all-embracing contributors to advice assure water, and by addendum our planet, in William E. Marks's "Water Voices from Around the World" (ISBN 9780979304606, Water Voices, Inc., 2007).

Internationally admired authors, politicians, and activists accept appear calm to actualize one of the a lot of important books anytime accounting about all-around resource--water. The abundant contributors cover recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize and the Stockholm Water Prize. Religious and political leaders, scientists and advisers from about the apple accommodate advice about humanity's accepted accord with water, and how their organizations and governments are attention freshwater for approaching generations. Mikhail Gorbachev, Jane Goodall, Kofi Annan, and Leonardo DiCaprio are just a drop of the best-known choir cogent their baptize stories.

All of reality--lives, bodies, brains, even thoughts are absolute manifestations of water. Because freshwater is basic to every aspect of existence, "Water Voices from Around the World" is accordant to all.. Human history began in belief of water's role in the universe's conception and its addition to evolution--"Water Voices" gives new answers and is accounting to advice brainwash about baptize and how humans can crop action to advice baptize actualize life.

Besides the all-embracing baptize scene, "Water Voices from Around the World" covers capacity such as: Water Philosophy; Water Wars; Water & Peace; Water Healing; plight of the Polar Bear; a new analogue for our hydrologic cycle; chance of whales and butterflies; history of beachcomber surfing and ocean gods in Hawaii; Notre Dame as a angelic baptize healing center; Angkor Wat's conception as a baptize adoration center; the history and accepted action of today's ocean salmon; Water's Mysteries; Stepwells of India; the Middle East; change of Mexico City and Mexico's pyramids; the Great Lakes; Russia's Lake Baikal; Water's Memory, and so abundant more!        

Mesmerized by the absurd photographs with educational captions, readers will acquisition it difficult to put the book down; they will ambition to apprehend about the admirable places depicted as they apprentice about how baptize is supplied and admired about the world. Water's accent will never afresh be absolved by anyone who reads this beautiful, advisory publication. Critics agree--the world's better all-embracing book antagonism by Independent Publishers accustomed "Water Voices from Around The World" with the 1st Place Gold Award as the book, "Most Likely to Save the Planet."

About the Editor
William E. Marks is a baptize philosopher. He was Senior Environmental Analyst for the City of Newark's baptize supply, is a above water-testing lab Director, and architect of an ecology analysis institute. To accession baptize consciousness, he did a 7,000-mile horseback expedition above America alleged "Ride For Nature"; catholic to over fifteen countries to analysis baptize administration practices, and has accustomed abundant baptize awards--including the United States Environmental Protection Agency's "Citizen Activist of the Year." William E. Marks is the author/editor of books, magazines, and poems, and has been featured on CNN; CBS; MSNBC; NBC; ABC, and abundant allocution shows. Most recently, he was featured in the accolade acceptable documentary "FLOW: For Love Of Water."

"Water Voices from Around the World" (ISBN 9780979304606, Water Voices, Inc., 2007) can be purchased through Amazon, B&N, and at www.watervoices.com. Publicity contact: www.ReaderViews.com. Review copies accessible aloft request.
                   

Bottled Water Containers Now the Single Most Recycled Item in Curbside Programs

Bottled Water Container Recycling Rates Improved by 16% Water bottles are now the a lot of recycled alembic in curbside programs by weight, and overwhelmingly by number. Recycling ante abide to acceleration while canteen weight tumbles downward But this improvement, while encouraging, reminds us that added needs to be done. It is actual bright that the bottled baptize industry is apace headed in the appropriate administration while carrying the convenience, assurance and auspicious hydration that fabricated bottled baptize so accepted in the aboriginal place.

Alexandria, VA (Vocus/PRWEB ) February 19, 2009 -- The civic recycling amount for PET artificial bottled baptize containers (.5 liter or 16.9 ounce size) has bigger by 16.42%, according to new abstracts from two new studies: ''2008 Post Consumer PET Bottle Bale Composition Analysis'' and ''2007 Report on PET Water Bottle Recycling,'' both produced by the National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR). According to abstracts from an beforehand 2006 array agreeable abstraction for all beverages, the amount of PET bottles counted per batter was about 12. In 2008, the absolute amount of PET bottles added to 13.78, a absorption of the affecting access in baptize canteen collection, as able-bodied as the connected lightweighting of added plastic containers. The 2007 NAPCOR abstraction on baptize canteen recycling has bent that the recycling amount for baptize bottles is 23.4%, apery a cogent 16.42% access over the 2006 recycling amount of 20.1%.

With abstracts aggregate during an all-encompassing array agreement abstraction in 15 locations in 14 states, the 2008 NAPCOR PET appraisal states: "Water bottles are now the a lot of recycled alembic in curbside programs by weight, and overwhelmingly by number." PET baptize bottles now anniversary for 50% of all the PET bottles and containers calm by curbside recycling. This trend was connected in all curbside bales sampled nationally, with no above accouterment empiric in any added artificial alembic category. The better jump in baptize canteen accumulating for recycling was in California, area a state-funded chump apprenticeship campaign, emphasizing that baptize bottles are recyclable, seems to be accepting the adapted effect.

Average Gram Weight per Bottle Declined by 26.7% Over Past Seven Years

In bike with the new NAPCOR data, IBWA tracked the boilerplate aggregate of artificial acclimated in .5 liter (16.9 ounce) PET bottles, application appear abstracts from the Beverage Marketing Corporation (BMC) to actuate the lightweighting trend currently accepting apparent in abounding brands of bottled water. In the year 2000, the boilerplate weight of a artificial baptize canteen was 18.90 grams. It has beneath consistently on an anniversary base and by 2007, the endure year BMC has complete abstracts (as of this date), the boilerplate weight of a PET baptize canteen was 13.83 grams - a 26.7% decline.

"Recycling ante abide to acceleration while canteen weight tumbles downward," said Joe Doss, President and CEO of the International Bottled Water Association. "But this improvement, while encouraging, reminds us that added needs to be done. It is actual bright that the bottled baptize industry is apace headed in the appropriate administration while carrying the convenience, assurance and auspicious hydration that fabricated bottled baptize so accepted in the aboriginal place."    

The International Bottled Water Association (IBWA) is the accurate antecedent of advice about all types of bottled waters. Founded in 1958, IBWA's associates includes U.S. and all-embracing bottlers, distributors and suppliers. IBWA is committed to alive with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which regulates bottled baptize as a packaged aliment product, and accompaniment governments to set acrimonious standards for safe, top above bottled baptize products. In accession to FDA and accompaniment regulations, the Association requires affiliate bottlers to attach to the IBWA Bottled Water Code of Practice, which mandates added standards and practices that in some cases are added acrimonious than federal and accompaniment regulations. A key affection of the IBWA Bottled Water Code of Practice is an annual, unannounced bulb analysis by an independent, third affair organization. Consumers can acquaintance IBWA at 1-800-WATER-11 or log assimilate IBWA's web website (www.bottledwater.org) for added advice about bottled baptize and a account of members' brands. Media inquiries can be directed to VP of Communications Tom Lauria at 703-647-4609 or tlauria(at)bottledwater.org.

WaterAid Urges Australians to Take the World Water Day Challenge

WaterAid is allurement Australians to crop allotment in the World Water Day Challenge and absolute their circadian baptize acceptance agnate to that of the boilerplate ancestors in Africa, Asia and the Pacific.

-- Did you apperceive the boilerplate Australian uses 285 litres of baptize a day?

In developing countries, the boilerplate is 10 litres!

WaterAid is allurement Australians to crop allotment in the World Water Day Challenge and absolute their circadian baptize acceptance agnate to that of the boilerplate ancestors in Africa, Asia and the Pacific.

Taking allotment in this claiming will alone access common abutment for WaterAid's plan and advice armamentarium safe baptize programs in the atomic developed countries about the globe.

It's absolutely simple to get involved. All humans charge to do is register support by entering a few data into a anatomy and they'll be emailed a World Water Day Challenge kit. The kit will accommodate case studies, accessible tips and links to calculators on how to abate your circadian baptize usage.

In accession to demography the claiming you can animate accompany to accompany in. Simply access their name, email and a bulletin and they'll be contacted about registration.

You can aswell accept your Water Challenge sponsored by beat on the Everyday Hero page.

There are 2.5 billion humans about the apple after acceptance to basic sanitation, which leads to a adverse 6,000 adolescent deaths every day. Giving humans the basal appropriate to apple-pie baptize and sanitation prevents disease, allows added accouchement to appear academy and gives millions and millions of humans about the apple time to acquire a living. Get complex and crop the World Water Day Challenge now!

About WaterAid

WaterAid is an all-embracing aid organisation. Our mission is to affected abjection by enabling the world's atomic humans to accretion acceptance to safe water, able sanitation and hygiene education. We aswell seek to access action at civic and all-embracing levels to ensure all humans accept acceptance to this axiological animal right.

New Global Water Stewardship Program Announced at World Water Forum

Leading Environmental, Social Organizations Form 'Alliance for Water Stewardship' to Incentivize Protection of Water Resources, Create Market for Sustainable Water Use The Forest Stewardship Council exists as a apparatus for certifying copse articles as sustainable, and the fair barter arrangement allows consumers to accept articles that abutment and sustain bounded communities, but no such affairs exists for water The Alliance for Water Stewardship will advance the allegation appear development of the first-ever standards to advance the way baptize is managed about the world. Business, ambiance and amusing groups all are absorbed in a allusive all-around accepted adjoin which baptize achievement can be judged This will acquiesce amenable companies and added organizations to archetype achievement while accouterment barter with a apparatus to drive college levels of achievement globally.

Istanbul, Turkey-- Today, The Nature Conservancy, The Water Stewardship Initiative of Australia, Water Witness, the Water Environment Federation, the Pacific Institute, and the World Wildlife Fund, appear the barrage of a new all-around baptize administration affairs to admit and accolade amenable baptize managers, corporations, the agronomics industry, cities, and baptize authorities for acceptable use of baptize resources. This accumulation of arch business, amusing development and attention organizations has abutting calm as the "Alliance for Water Stewardship" (AWS) in adjustment to advance accepted standards to administer baptize in a way that enables amusing and bread-and-butter development while aswell advancement ecology sustainability.

"The Forest Stewardship Council exists as a apparatus for certifying copse articles as sustainable, and the fair barter arrangement allows consumers to accept articles that abutment and sustain bounded communities, but no such affairs exists for water," said Jonathan Kaledin, Blue Water Certification Program Director for The Nature Conservancy. "The Alliance for Water Stewardship will advance the allegation appear development of the first-ever standards to advance the way baptize is managed about the world."

Today, about two billion humans abridgement acceptance to apple-pie baptize for bubbler or sanitation, while abounding of the rivers and lakes that sustain animal communities are attenuated or active dry. Properly activity rivers, lakes and wetlands are the actual foundation aloft which around all active things on apple depend, but demands on the planet's accessible freshwater food are at an best high, aggressive the bloom of baptize supplies. By 2030, two-thirds of the world's citizenry will abide in geographic regions experiencing astringent baptize stress.

In acknowledgment to these challenges, AWS associates will plan calm to accommodate a all-around belvedere for the development of standards for baptize administration that will accredit fair and acceptable administration of freshwater resources. By acquainted through actual analysis those baptize users and managers who are demography above accomplish to accept amenable baptize administration practices, AWS will accommodate able incentives to advance the way baptize is managed about the world.

"Business, ambiance and amusing groups all are absorbed in a allusive all-around accepted adjoin which baptize achievement can be judged," said Michael Spencer, Director of the Water Stewardship Initiative in Australia. "This will acquiesce amenable companies and added organizations to archetype achievement while accouterment barter with a apparatus to drive college levels of achievement globally."

Over the next several years, the Alliance associates will plan with baptize authorities, industries, bounded communities and environmentalists to authorize a autonomous acceptance affairs for baptize managers and users based on the following:

 

International standards developed through an equitable, inclusive, transparent, science-based, multi-stakeholder process. Verification to actuate whether these standards accept been met. A all-around casting that allows managers, users and organizations to authenticate their acquiescence with or abutment for baptize stewardship. Training and apprenticeship to advance accomplishment of baptize stewardship.
AWS will accredit international, multi-sector collaboration, with stakeholders alignment from ample all-embracing baptize companies to baby bounded baptize utilities to agronomical baptize users, in a address that has the abeyant to be absolutely transformative. The baptize administration action will activate and added a new all-around belief in attention to the use of beginning water, and will angle beside authoritative processes that currently administer baptize issues in abounding locations of the world.

Communities, organizations and industries about the apple now admit acutely the amount of acceptance efforts involving autonomous participants. Participants in added all-embracing acceptance businesses already in aftereffect are able to authorize accuracy and accountability for their activities that go above simple authoritative compliance. Through their accord they aswell authenticate a bright application of amusing and ecology impacts.

AWS will abide to aggrandize in the advancing months, architecture its associates base, bringing in new organizations to reflect as absolutely as accessible the altered geographic, social, economic, and ecology perspectives of the baptize issues faced above the globe, and implementing a alternation of stakeholder roundtables to accept ascribe on the development of standards.

Participation in AWS is accessible to anyone absorbed in announcement acceptable baptize use, and stakeholder beat and assurance will be complex in every aspect of the design, development, and accomplishing of the baptize administration program. Learn added about how to accompany this accomplishment at: http://www.allianceforwaterstewardship.org/register.html.

Visit the Alliance for Water Stewardship on the web at: www.allianceforwaterstewardship.org.

The Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS) has been formed to accommodate a all-around belvedere for the development of standards for baptize administration that will accredit fair and acceptable administration of freshwater resources. By acquainted through acceptance those baptize users and managers who are demography above accomplish to abbreviate their baptize use and impacts, we will accommodate able incentives to advance the way baptize is managed about the world.

Contact
Cristina Mestre
+703.678.5639
The Nature Conservancy

Thirsty British Businesses Can Stem the Tide

With letters admiration baptize is set to become an added deficient and big-ticket resource[1 and that UK businesses are application abundant of it every year to ample 2.6 actor Olympic-sized pond pools(2), sustainable business experts Envirowise are admonishing businesses that they could be cloudburst money down the drain.

Oxfordshire, England -- With letters admiration baptize is set to become an added deficient and big-ticket resource[1 and that UK businesses are application abundant of it every year to ample 2.6 actor Olympic-sized pond pools(2), acceptable business experts Envirowise are admonishing businesses that they could be cloudburst money down the drain.

Envirowise

It is acute that humans are acquainted of the austere and circuitous issues about baptize accumulation and use and we achievement the new Water Efficiency Tool from Envirowise will advice businesses abode these challenges in the a lot of able way. Envirowise is advancement businesses to acquaintance them to acquisition out how simple, low amount initiatives to abate water consumption could advice save bags of pounds every year.

To accomplish it even easier for businesses to acquaint baptize extenuative measures, Envirowise has launched a new step-by-step online apparatus that helps companies analyze area and how baptize is acclimated and treated, the costs involved, and applied means to abate and re-use it. The apparatus aswell helps organisations accumulate ascendancy of costs and approaching affidavit adjoin amount rises and accumulation shortages.

Last year Envirowise ran Rippleffect, a chargeless action advised to advice businesses accouterment baptize use. Around 500 businesses active up for the arrangement and it is hoped that abounding added will account from baptize accumulation by application the new Tool.

Claire Sweeney, baptize specialist at Envirowise, says: "Whilst abounding of us accede baptize to be a bargain and amaranthine resource, the absoluteness is that we are application and crumbling far too much, and this is agreement added burden on absolute food as able-bodied as impacting on the basal line.

"It is acute that humans are acquainted of the austere and circuitous issues about baptize accumulation and use and we achievement the new Water Efficiency Tool from Envirowise will advice businesses abode these challenges in the a lot of able way."

To use the Water Efficiency Tool appointment envirowise.gov.uk/water

Envirowise offers a ambit of support, guides and factsheets for businesses absorbed in acceptable added baptize efficient. For added advice appointment the Envirowise website: envirowise.gov.uk or alarm the Advice Line on 0800 585 794

Media Enquiries:

Please contact: Graeme Jackson or Lyanna Tsakiris at Bray Leino PR
Telephone: 0117 973 1173

Notes to Editorso:

About Envirowise
Envirowise is a Government-funded programme committed to putting the acceptable use of assets at the affection of UK business practice.

Since 1994 Envirowise has helped UK businesses save over £1bn by enabling them to decidedly abate their ecology footprints.

Envirowise offers businesses of all sizes and sectors a advanced ambit of free, absolute and applied admonition advised tospan> absolutely advance their processes, advantage and competitiveness. Services include:

The Envirowise Advice Line on 0800 585794
An encyclopaedic website (envirowise.gov.uk) of admired and accordant advice OveOver 200 contest anniversary year, from Product Design Workshops to above exhibitions

[1 UN calculations, The Times, 22nd January 2009

[2 Review of Water Use in Industry and Commerce: Envirowise N.B. statistics referenced exclude utiutilities, agriculture, angle farming, Mfr of coke & petroleum products

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WaterPartners Gets $4m To Fight Water-Related Diseases

WaterPartners teams with Agora Foundation to action water-related diseases and bear apple-pie baptize worldwide.

Kansas City, MO -- WaterPartners International (WPI) today appear a $4 actor admission from the Agora Foundation to accompany apple-pie baptize to the world’s atomic communities, furthering WPI’s mission to breach the aeon of water-related diseases that affirmation about 5 actor lives annually worldwide.

The allowance is one of the better individual clandestine grants to a non-profit accumulation focused on the apple baptize crisis and was spearheaded by philanthropist Wynnette LaBrosse, the architect of Agora, a donor-advised armamentarium at Peninsula Community Foundation abreast San Francisco. In 2004, Agora gave $1 actor to barrage WPI’s WaterCredit Initiative, a different affairs accouterment acceptance to costs for the world’s poor so they can body and own acceptable baptize systems.

We’re advance in WaterPartners afresh because our accomplished donations anon helped to save lives, decidedly those of accouchement in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India, and Kenya As Americans, we accept a aggregate albatross to abode this challenge, and Agora’s $4 actor admission will accommodate much-needed abetment to the added than 1 billion humans who abridgement acceptance to safe bubbler baptize and the 2.2 billion who abridgement able sanitation. These funds will actually advice save tens of bags of lives Wynnette and Agora Foundation accept continued accurate our ambition of creating a apple area anybody has acceptance to clean, safe water, and we apprehend this acceptable donation to accord to breaking the aeon of abjection and anguish that accompanies a abridgement of baptize and sanitation. a appointment or exchange for the barter of ideas Agora’s latest admission will abide to armamentarium water, sanitation, and bloom apprenticeship programs and aswell will accommodate operational abutment for WaterPartners. To date, WaterPartners has provided added than 100,000 humans with acceptance to apple-pie water, and the latest Agora donation will acceptable bifold that number. More on baptize crisis at www.water.org/crisis/waterfacts.htm

Quotes from Wynnette LaBrosse, architect of the Agora Foundation

“We’re advance in WaterPartners afresh because our accomplished donations anon helped to save lives, decidedly those of accouchement in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India, and Kenya,” Ms. LaBrosse said. “As Americans, we accept a aggregate albatross to abode this challenge, and Agora’s $4 actor admission will accommodate much-needed abetment to the added than 1 billion humans who abridgement acceptance to safe bubbler baptize and the 2.2 billion who abridgement able sanitation.”

Quotes from Gary White, Executive Director of WaterPartners International

“These funds will actually advice save tens of bags of lives,” said Gary White, controlling administrator of WaterPartners International. “Wynnette and Agora Foundation accept continued accurate our ambition of creating a apple area anybody has acceptance to clean, safe water, and we apprehend this acceptable donation to accord to breaking the aeon of abjection and anguish that accompanies a abridgement of baptize and sanitation.”

Background

WaterPartners promotes cost-effective association baptize and sanitation projects and all-encompassing apprenticeship on the bloom implications of apple-pie baptize and sanitation. WPI’s programs are targeted to accord humans a lot of in charge the adventitious to not alone survive, but badly advance their above of life. In fifteen years back its aboriginal activity in Honduras, the Kansas City-based non-profit alignment has brought a acceptable accumulation of apple-pie baptize to added than 100,000 humans worldwide.

WaterCredit Initiative

WaterPartners a lot of contempo addition is its WaterCredit Initiative, which brings a micro-finance access to the baptize affair for the aboriginal time. By authoritative baby loans accessible to communities area acclaim is around unknown, WaterPartners has approved that the world’s poor can auspiciously participate in costs their own baptize accumulation solutions. With this model, WaterPartners affairs to advanced the clip of development of baptize and sanitation systems in the developing world. Find added advice on WaterCredit at www.water.org/watercredit/.

About WaterPartners International

WaterPartners International is committed to accouterment apple-pie bubbler baptize to communities in developing countries. The aesthetics of WaterPartners is to empower bounded communities to crop albatross for analytic their own baptize problems. WaterPartners International works through accomplice organizations in poverty-stricken countries to actualize bounded baptize committees to baby-sit architecture and the advancing aliment of the projects. Since the humans who account accept a absolute pale in the projects, they are far added acceptable to ensure their continuation.

More than one billion humans abridgement acceptance to a safe accumulation of bubbler water. Water-related diseases are the arch could cause of afterlife in the world. WaterPartners was founded in 1990 because efforts to abode the world’s top bloom botheration were bare and inefficient. Since then, WaterPartners has developed a 15-year clue almanac for accouterment solutions that work, ambience new standards for addition and best practices in the sector. For added information, amuse appointment www.water.org.

About Agora Foundation and Peninsula Community Foundation

Agora Foundation is the donor-advised armamentarium of philanthropist Wynnette LaBrosse at Peninsula Community Foundation. LaBrosse chose the name Agora, a Greek chat acceptation “a appointment or exchange for the barter of ideas,” to advance her absorption in admission plan that advances issues centered primarily about women, education, the environment, battle resolution, and accessible policy.

For added than 40 years, Peninsula Community Foundation has affiliated people, ideas, and assets for the accepted acceptable in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. Established in 1964, the Foundation has accepted added than $480 actor to nonprofits locally, nationally, and internationally, and is the altruistic accomplice to added than 750 families, individuals, and corporations. The Foundation enables donors to abutment the causes they affliction about, and does so with the ambitious spirit that is a authentication of the Silicon Valley region. Of the estimated 700 association foundations above the United States, Peninsula Community Foundation is a allotment of the top 20 in assets and the top 10 in anniversary grantmaking. Information is accessible at www.pcf.org.

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TSEPA: GBRA Sells Guadalupe Water Rights Amidst Basin-Wide Drought

Texans for a Sound Energy Policy Alliance (TSEPA) today questioned the argumentation of the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority's (GBRA) accommodation to extend its baptize catch acceding with Exelon while accompanying requesting others to conserve. With the Guadalupe River Basin experiencing Stage 2 aridity conditions, GBRA encouraged all users to absolute their baptize usage. Additionally, GBRA was affected to access the absolution amount from Canyon Lake into the Guadalupe River in adjustment to accommodated the accepted baptize accumulation demands for its after user, the City of Victoria. At the aforementioned time, GBRA acclimatized $1.1 actor from Exelon to assets 75,000 acre-feet from the Guadalupe for its proposed nuclear ability bulb abreast Victoria. By acting as a baptize merchant and not a attention authority, Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority (GBRA) is mismanaging this adored ability and declining as a abettor of our adored water The Canyon Lake absolution makes it bright that in a drought, the Guadalupe River arrangement is already artificial by accepted demands. If Victoria needs added baptize now, again acutely the Guadalupe River can't abutment the approaching demands of a above baptize user like Exelon. a adequately competent baptize supply By proceeding with their plans, GBRA and Exelon appear to be axis a aphotic eye to the blemish of this river arrangement apparent by the accepted drought Texans from the Hill Country to the Bay depend on this river--for tourism, for agriculture, for industry, and for the abode all-important to advance the endangered whooping cranes that winter in the San Antonio Bay. We artlessly cannot acquiesce to accept such a big user downstream.

Victoria, TX July 7, 2009 - Texans for a Sound Energy Policy Alliance (TSEPA) today questioned the argumentation of the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority's (GBRA) accommodation to extend its baptize catch acceding with Exelon while accompanying requesting others to conserve.

The Guadalupe River stops abounding abreast Canyon Lake. Photo by Polly Haberkorn.

With the Guadalupe River Basin experiencing Stage 2 aridity conditions, GBRA encouraged all users to absolute their baptize usage. Additionally, GBRA was affected to access the absolution amount from Canyon Lake into the Guadalupe River in adjustment to accommodated the accepted baptize accumulation demands for its after user, the City of Victoria. At the aforementioned time, GBRA acclimatized $1.1 actor from Exelon to assets 75,000 acre-feet from the Guadalupe for its proposed nuclear ability bulb abreast Victoria.

"By acting as a baptize merchant and not a attention authority, Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority (GBRA) is mismanaging this adored ability and declining as a abettor of our adored water," says Jim Blackburn, ecology advocate for TSEPA. "The Canyon Lake absolution makes it bright that in a drought, the Guadalupe River arrangement is already artificial by accepted demands. If Victoria needs added baptize now, again acutely the Guadalupe River can't abutment the approaching demands of a above baptize user like Exelon."

The addendum of the acceding coincides with Exelon's accommodation to adjournment its affairs to body a nuclear bulb in Victoria County. The Chicago-based activity aggregation appear endure anniversary that it will no best seek a architecture and operating authorization from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and instead seek an aboriginal website permit. An aboriginal website admittance requires "a adequately competent baptize supply" according to an Exelon spokesman.

TSEPA credibility out that to date, neither GBRA nor Exelon has fabricated an accomplishment to conduct studies that would appraisal the abeyant appulse of their catch agreement. The catch allocates over 24 billion gallons of baptize from the Guadalupe anniversary year to the activity company.

As of June 30, 2009 cogent portions of the Guadalupe-Blanco River Basin are in an aberrant drought. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, baptize levels in the Guadalupe-Blanco River Basin are at beneath than 5% of the boilerplate beck breeze for this time of year. The U.S. Seasonal Drought Outlook predicts that the accepted aridity affecting the basin will alone intensify.

"By proceeding with their plans, GBRA and Exelon appear to be axis a aphotic eye to the blemish of this river arrangement apparent by the accepted drought," said Blackburn." Texans from the Hill Country to the Bay depend on this river--for tourism, for agriculture, for industry, and for the abode all-important to advance the endangered whooping cranes that winter in the San Antonio Bay. We artlessly cannot acquiesce to accept such a big user downstream."

TSEPA's mission is to abutment a Texas activity accumulation action that is reasonable, sustainable, and environmentally sound. To apprentice added about TSEPA, appointment www.speakupvictoria.com.