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INSIDE THE BOTTLE

Inside the Bottle is a Polaris Institute project designed to stimulate citizen awareness about the bottled water industry. This site has begun to map the bottle water locations of the industry's Big 4 corporate players. Citizens are invited to contribute to this map by investigating and reporting how the industry operates within your community.

This site also hosts news, publications & resources for those interested in furthering public discussion about bottled water issues.

Current News

Canada: Water worries: The bottled stuff’s not so healthy or good for the environment

Posted: May 9, 2008 Section: Student Action The North Bay Nugget. By Gord Young -
Hundreds of local high school students were urged Thursday to close the taps on the bottled water...
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India: Public water, privately bottled profits

Posted: May 8, 2008 Section: Community & Labour Action Asia Times Online. By Raja M -
MUMBAI - India's fast-modernizing society, benefiting from economic growth of close to 9% a year, is caught up...
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US: Stop buying bottled water, Nickels urges Seattleites

Posted: May 8, 2008 Section: Community & Labour Action Seattle Times. By Susan Gilmore -
When Mayor Greg Nickels drives in his car, he carries a plastic container filled with tap water. He says...
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UK: Bottled water sales dry up

Posted: May 8, 2008 Section: Global Campaigns News Manchester Evening News. By Deborah Linton -
SALES of bottled water are down - and campaigners for tap water say it is a sign of things to...
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Canada: Board bans sale of bottled water at its school

Posted: May 7, 2008 Section: Student Action
The Toronto Star. By Kristen Rushowy -
The Waterloo Region board has banned the sale of plastic bottles of water in its schools...
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Canada: MP tables water bill

Posted: May 6, 2008 Section: Legislative Action Kootenay Western Star.
NDP Agriculture Critic Alex Atamanenko, M.P., BC Southern Interior, tabled his Private Member’s Bill, “An Act to...
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US: Bottled Water Backlash

Posted: May 6, 2008 Section: Global Campaigns News E/The Environmental Magazine. By Melissa Knopper -
Environmental Concerns are Sending People Back to Their Taps
Jennifer Phillips...
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Canada: Law on groundwater murky

Posted: April 24, 2008 Section: Legislative Action Globe and Mail. By Murray Campbell -
The Ontario government was draping itself in green on Earth Day for its decision to ban the sale and use...
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Canada: Time to turn back to the tap?

Posted: April 22, 2008 Section: Student Action Globe and Mail. By Diana McLaren
The stuff of life is quickly becoming the stuff of controversy as the fight against commercial bottled water...
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Canada: Say goodbye to bottled water to save environment, money

Posted: April 22, 2008 Section: Global Campaigns News The Chronicle Herald. By Joey Fitzpatrick -
EACH YEAR, April 22 marks the anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement in...
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Canada: Public board to ban plastic water bottles starting in 2009

Posted: April 22, 2008 Section: Community & Labour Action The Record. By Karen Kawawada -
Bottled water sat on the desks of some trustees and staff at a public school board meeting last night, but...
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US: Water Bottlers Face Growing Opposition

Posted: April 10, 2008 Section: Community & Labour Action Associated Press. By Samantha Young -
McCLOUD, Calif. (AP) — The lumber mill closed five years ago, and so many families moved out that the...
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Canada: Drought of information; Ministry decision on Nestlé permit expected later this month

Posted: April 9, 2008 Section: Community & Labour Action Guelph Mercury. By Magda Konieczna -
There's a lot that's unknown about the science of water tables. And what is known is really, really...
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Canada: Avoid bottled water, group urges

Posted: April 7, 2008 Section: Student Action - Ryersonian. By Kaydi Pyette -
Students taste the difference between bottled and tap water at the Working Students' Centre's booth. ...
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Nestlé's thirst for water splits small U.S. town

Posted: March 31, 2008 Section: Global Campaigns News - Erica Gies, International Herald Tribune, March 21, 2008 - McCloud, a former lumber company town in the far north of California, has the charm of a...
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