{"id":12859,"date":"2006-02-06T23:44:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-06T23:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/02\/06\/bottled-water-nectar-of-the-frauds\/"},"modified":"2006-02-06T23:44:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-06T23:44:00","slug":"bottled-water-nectar-of-the-frauds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/02\/06\/bottled-water-nectar-of-the-frauds\/","title":{"rendered":"Bottled Water: Nectar of the Frauds?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Yahoo! News<\/i> has an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/oneworld\/20060204\/wl_oneworld\/45361268291139089785;_ylt=Ah3XakhdnZYbsoIBRp012zgDW7oF;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl\" target=\"_blank\">article on the bottled water industry<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Consumers spend a collective $100 billion every year on bottled water in the belief&ndash;often mistaken, as it happens&ndash;that this is better for us than what flows from our taps, according to environmental think tank the Earth Policy Institute (EPI).<\/p>\n<p>For a fraction of that sum, everyone on the planet could have safe drinking water and proper sanitation, the Washington, D.C.-based organization said this week.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"tags\">tags:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/business\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">business<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/politics\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">politics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/health\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">health<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-113931513609574739?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo! News has an interesting article on the bottled water industry: Consumers spend a collective $100 billion every year on bottled water in the belief&ndash;often mistaken, as it happens&ndash;that this is better for us than what flows from our taps, according to environmental think tank the Earth Policy Institute (EPI). For a fraction of that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/02\/06\/bottled-water-nectar-of-the-frauds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bottled Water: Nectar of the Frauds?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-12859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}