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today's top stories from our friends at pitchfork

Plastic bottles line the streets of many Guatemalan towns, so a nonprofit is turning the litter into building materials for schoolhouses.

At long last, the EPA has decided to limit the amount of perchlorate, a component of rocket fuel, in our drinking water.
The sun jar. It's a little jar you put by the window. And then at night, it glows. Like it's filled with magical fireflies.Via Treehugger
The 10 worst quirks of bottled water culture Water has always been a problem for me. It just has. As a kid I was constantly told by my mother...

After the TSA pats you down, x-rays your undies, and dumps your liquids, at least now you don't have to pay $4 for bottled water.
By now you've probably heard that the Nalgene you're carrying around is releasing plastic chemicals into your water each time you refill. Thanks...
Gothamist has a Q&A with Craig Zucker, founder of Tap'dNY, a company that purifies, bottles, and distributes water that doesn't come from a spring...
Don't treat it like trash, and plastic becomes a lot more interesting. In 1947, Thor Heyerdahl and a crew of five men crossed the Pacific...
From the people who brought you "The Story of Stuff" comes "The Story of Bottled Water." Have a look at the preview after the jump. Looks...
In 1977, a mere two years before Sting penned his classic hit, the folks at NASA were busy preparing their own intergalactic "message in a...
The Australian city of Bundanoon (or Bundy, as they call it-those Aussies love their nicknames) has become, it seems, the first city anywhere to...
In Concord, Massachusetts, an 82-year-old woman named Jean Hill, after hearing about the Pacific Garbage Patch, advocated for a flat-out ban on...

Congress bought $190,000 worth of bottled water last year. Let's buy them some water bottles so they can stop.

The market for sustainably-branded products is more competitive than ever. Bring on the buzzwords.
Jesus impressed his disciples by turning water into wine. Water sommelier Michael Mascha thinks water is miraculous enough. Supermarket shelves...
Prompted in part by Annie Leonard's new video "The Story of Bottled Water," the International Bottled Water Association released a video of their...
Last week, folks in Concord, Massachusetts voted to become the first U.S. town to ban the sale of all bottled water. The ban, set to take effect...
Earlier this spring, a group of students from the Stanford Graduate School of Business took a trip through California and Nevada. Their...

The jokers at Bottled Water Matters have another one of their YouTube videos up defending the industry. This one deals with the criticism that...
PepsiCo's Aquafina bottled water, which currently carries the cryptic label "Bottled at the source PWS" will soon spell out the acronym: "public...

