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		<title>Drinking Bottled Water Kills the Earth</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image by Felix Idan via Flickr Do you want to save the planet and the limited natural resources of our blue planet or do you want convenience, prestige, and possible safer water?  Well, you had better be willing and able to return to tap water because research says that bottled water is up to 2000 [...]]]></description>
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<p>Do you want to save the planet and the limited <a class="zem_slink" title="Natural resource" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_resource">natural resources</a> of our blue planet or do you want convenience, prestige, and possible safer <a class="zem_slink" title="Water" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water">water</a>?  Well, you had better be willing and able to return to <a class="zem_slink" title="Tap water" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tap_water">tap water</a> because research says that <a class="zem_slink" title="Bottled water" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottled_water">bottled water</a> is up to 2000 times more energy-intensive than tap water, <a href="http://www.gizmag.com/bottled-water-uses-82322000-times-more-energy-than-tap8232-water/11123/">Bottled water uses 2000 times more energy than tap water</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>New research from the <a class="zem_slink" title="Pacific Institute" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Institute">Pacific Institute</a> estimates that bottled water is up to 2000 times more energy-intensive than tap water. Similarly, bottled water that requires <a class="zem_slink" title="Long distance" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_distance">long-distance</a> transport is far more energy-intensive than bottled water produced and distributed locally. Indeed, when all the sums were done, it seems the annual <a class="zem_slink" title="Power consumption" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_consumption">consumption</a> of bottled water in the <a class="zem_slink" title="United States" rel="geolocation" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667%20%28United%20States%29&amp;t=h">U.S.</a> in 2007 required the equivalent of between 32 and 54 million barrels of oil—roughly one-third of a percent of total U.S. primary <a class="zem_slink" title="World energy resources and consumption" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_resources_and_consumption">energy consumption</a>.</p></blockquote>
<p>Do you buy bottled water by the pallette? Well, you suck and make Jesus cry.  Also, I hate cats.</p>
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