I ve always wondered why plastic bottles were favoured for packaging individual water consumables. What other options could be swiftly optimised to obviate the issues of plastic water bottles being an ecological hazard?
It used to be that we could use a public fountain or water source in many places. Why do we have to buy water in the first instance. ...View more
It used to be that we could use a public fountain or water source in many places. Why do we have to buy water in the first instance.
Perhaps companies who already package thousands of bottles of water a day, would simply switch over to a bio-degradable form of plastic that would reduces the risk to the environment.
I think that reusable bottles would alleviate the problem: Bring your own and just pay for the refill with clean drinking water. Growing up, this is how it worked with milk for our family! Besides, this might also be cheaper for the manufacturers, since their drinking water product could be t ...
Hi Ivo, Desalination will not solve the problem of water scarcity. It is only one piece of the puzzle. Water scarcity is a much larger issue and will not be solved by a single technology or product. Solving water scarcity will take conservation, preservation, recycling, reuse, legisl ...
We hear a lot about domestic water demonstrating raised levels of oestrogen and anti depressants being flushed from humans in high concentrations in ways that current purification processes can't remove efficiently. What efforts are being made to assess the safety levels and rectify this iss ...
What is your vision Peter, for how the construct of "Peak Water" could best be used to have a positive impact on water management?
Who decides how much my municipal water rates are and how is that calculated?