The State of Vermont sells enormous quantities of delicious spring water bottled near or at the source: real artisan springs flowing out of the ground at a constant 43 degrees year round. Vermont water supplies should be in good shape through at least June as we now have a tremendous snowpack sitting over very warm, unfrozen grounds, which means slow infiltration all winter. We’ll have lots of water for you, and are happy to receive the economic boost to the state.

On a more serious note, some bottled water in our state is pumped out of the ground. Where that happens, ground-water tables are depressed in a cone all around the well-head. Some shallow neighboring wells have actually gone dry. So the point here is that even in the presently well-watered state of Vermont (where, btw, the average non-mountain annual rainfall equivalent amounts are between 26-28 inches. Mountain sites typically receive much more) water use and water scarcity is becoming an issue as well, more so as various bottled-water industry increases around the state.

When Georgia starts getting 3, 4, 5 or 6 inch rainstorms, then drought will be officially over.

It’s a sign, a sign from Heaven! Jesus saves! Your prayers have been answered! Hallelujah!

Thank you Sonny!

Guess the blog will be closing soon. Miss you.

Now if this degree of rainfall becomes a trend, for the rest of the winter and spring, then it would mean an easing of the drought. But still would need good summer rains to at least keep yards/lawns alive.

The story started that Coca Cola were marketing the water as spring water, but it was from “the tap waters of Sidcup”. So much ridicule was poured on coca cola they withdrew the product entirely.

Then “Coca-Cola hastily withdrew 500,000 bottles when it was discovered they contained nearly twice the legal amounts of a chemical that may cause cancers if consumed in large amounts. The company says it has no immediate plans for a relaunch in Britain.” (http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0326-08.htm)
the argument was that the pruification process led to the creation of these toxins.

“In Britain, the company took water that came out of the tap at its Sidcup plant and subjected it to sand, carbon, and micron filtration before putting it through reverse osmosis. That process, however, eliminates most of the minerals that make water water, so Coca-Cola added back calcium chloride to meet British water standards. The calcium chloride, the company explained, contained bromide that led to excess levels of bromate, which has been linked to cancer.”

It was consequently dropped from sale in France and germany

Don’t you think the “murky”ness is really as a result of advertising/marketing? After all what municpalities fail to meet the required standards (except at time of a diaster such as a flood or landslide)? Please take a look at the standards do you really think that Dasani is “clean(er)”? If it is, it would seem like Coca Cola would advertise that their product exceeds the highest FDA standards for drinking water. Instead they participate in lobbying efforts to retain or weaken current bottled water standards.

In the table of comparative standards tap water standards exceeded or equaled bottle standards about 99% of the time. Disgustingly, bottled water standards allow for viruses and bacteria (e. coli), that tap water standards completely prohibit.