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Bottled Water

Why do health warnings exclude bottled water and social media?
Opinion
/ 28 February 2025

Why do health warnings exclude bottled water and social media?

Since Homo sapiens became a thing about 300 000 years ago, we have never breathed more carbon dioxide, absorbed more industrial toxins or processed more privatised propaganda

By Guy Oliver
Bottled water in US found to contain miniscule pieces of plastic
The Green Guardian
/ 15 January 2024

Bottled water in US found to contain miniscule pieces of plastic

Nanoplastics are the ‘spawn of microplastics that have broken down even further’, researchers said

By Sheree Bega
Sunlight + plastic bottles = Clean drinking water in Africa’s largest urban slum
Article
/ 29 June 2016

Sunlight + plastic bottles = Clean drinking water in Africa’s largest urban slum

A novel and easy way to disinfect water using freely available solar power is helping to combat the spread of disease in developing countries.

By Staff Reporter
Drought bites everywhere
Article
/ 12 November 2015

Drought bites everywhere

It has taken the severe dry cycle for the country to renew its appreciation of the true value of water

By Lynley Donnelly
Six of the strangest bottled water
Article
/ 28 August 2015

Six of the strangest bottled water

From fat water to artichoke water, the health water market just keeps growing.

By Paula Cocozza
Agent Provocateur: Manufacturers do currency U-turn
Article
/ 15 February 2013

Agent Provocateur: Manufacturers do currency U-turn

Now that the sector’s wishes for a rand slump have been granted, it says this will have an inflationary effect.

By Staff Reporter
Drowning in bottled water
Article
/ 10 September 2010

Drowning in bottled water

It’s great business, but it is so environmentally
unsound it has been banned in parts of Australia.

By Yolandi Groenewald
No image available
Article
/ 23 November 2008

The eco machine that can magic water out of thin air

Water, Water, everywhere; nor any drop to drink. The plight of the Ancient Mariner is about to be alleviated thanks to a firm from Canada.

By Staff Reporter
No image available
Article
/ 5 August 2008

The bottled water affair

It is an astonishing kind of stupidity that sees us duped into paying for bottles of water, stuff that flows freely from our taps, writes Marina Hyde.

By Staff Reporter

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