{"id":727,"date":"2011-02-19T10:54:30","date_gmt":"2011-02-19T17:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mjhinton.com\/wild\/?p=727"},"modified":"2011-02-19T10:54:30","modified_gmt":"2011-02-19T17:54:30","slug":"tap-congress-to-get-off-the-bottle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=727","title":{"rendered":"Tap Congress to Get Off the Bottle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fooducate.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/19\/tap-congress-to-get-off-the-bottle\/\">Tap Congress to Get Off the Bottle \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Fooducate<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Billions of $$$ in advertising budgets to convince us that bottled water is a normal way to consume H two O. Here is a quote from a Susan Wellington, former vice president of marketing at PepsiCo:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>When we are done, tap water will be relegated to showers and washing dishes<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But consider this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bottled water costs over 1000 times more than tap water per fluid ounce. <\/li>\n<li>Bottled water uses over 2000 times more energy to produce and deliver. <\/li>\n<li>The purity of tap water is far more regulated than that of bottled water. <\/li>\n<li>Most bottled water sold today is simply tap water that has been filtered and then bottled. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So why are you still drinking bottled water?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fooducate.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/19\/tap-congress-to-get-off-the-bottle\/\">Tap Congress to Get Off the Bottle \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Fooducate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tap Congress to Get Off the Bottle \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Fooducate Billions of $$$ in advertising budgets to convince us that bottled water is a normal way to consume H two O. Here is a quote from a Susan Wellington, former vice president of marketing at PepsiCo: When we are done, tap water will be relegated to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=727\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tap Congress to Get Off the Bottle<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}