A million plastic bottles a minute
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Re: A million plastic bottles a minute
Unsafe according to Pepsi, Coke, Nestle, et al and their cock-sucking pig friends...
The water in Phnom Penh is of a higher quality than many places in Murika...
But wait, who owns these shitty companies?
Do some research...
The water in Phnom Penh is of a higher quality than many places in Murika...
But wait, who owns these shitty companies?
Do some research...
Jesus loves you...Mexico is great, right?
Re: A million plastic bottles a minute
The tap water at my house is technically safe but it tastes like shit. I'll continue to drink bottled water ok.
But it it makes you feel better I do recycle.
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Re: A million plastic bottles a minute
Anyone? Everyone! Please tell me your sources on these statments.
Not doubting any one of your statements. Well maybe some.
I'ts just to ez to say water bad. Tap water bad. Drink beer made with tap water. Once again I ask what defines tapwater & who's monitoring and whose paradighms are you quoting from? World Health Org?
So so questionable. They have there own agenda. I think it may be the $.
Ever looked at how they are funded?
Not doubting any one of your statements. Well maybe some.
I'ts just to ez to say water bad. Tap water bad. Drink beer made with tap water. Once again I ask what defines tapwater & who's monitoring and whose paradighms are you quoting from? World Health Org?
So so questionable. They have there own agenda. I think it may be the $.
Ever looked at how they are funded?
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Re: A million plastic bottles a minute
You too can have beer coming out of your faucets / taps.
Worth a watch. 1.11 minutes.
Worth a watch. 1.11 minutes.
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Re: A million plastic bottles a minute
I'm wondering if there was irony naming the World Health Organisation
Slow down little world, you're changing too fast.
Re: A million plastic bottles a minute
Doesn't look too good in USA
If you live in the United States, there is a nearly one-in-four chance your tap water is either unsafe to drink or has not been properly monitored for contaminants in accordance with federal law, a new study has found.
In 2015, nearly 77 million Americans lived in places where the water systems were in some violation of safety regulations, including the 1974 Safe Drinking Water Act, according to the report released on Tuesday from the Natural Resources Defense Council, a New York-based environmental advocacy group.
It’s not only that some tap water has high levels of lead, nitrates, arsenic or other pollutants, said Mae Wu, a senior attorney with the council’s health program. It is that too often, a lack of reporting means residents cannot be sure whether their drinking water is contaminated or not.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/04/us/t ... ml?mcubz=0
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Re: A million plastic bottles a minute
Not only is the water unsafe to drink, but it's price has shot through the roof no doubt. At least in England that's the case.
From yesterday's Guardian
Who you should really blame for feeling so badly off
The Guardian1 Jul 2017Patrick Collinson [email protected]
Escalating … the pile of household bills
The mood of the country, we are told, is turning against years of governmentimposed austerity. We are fed up with being squeezed by spending cuts; we are rebelling against 1% pay caps – and we are absolutely right to do so. But the real reason the average household feels so badly off is less to do with government cuts and more to do with profiteering by private companies.
Research this week by Santander blows the whistle on the ever-growing portion of our monthly pay that goes on largely unavoidable household bills. It looked at bills for gas, electricity, water, TV, phone and so on – and found they have escalated in price far, far ahead of average wage rises. Since 2006, average pay packets in Britain have gone up by 19% in pounds and pence terms (in other words, not adjusting for inflation). Meanwhile, the average gas bill has gone up 73%, electricity 72%, and water 41%.
These are extraordinarily large real rises, and all the grimmer for families and pensioners on very tight budgets. These are the bills that simply have to be paid, leaving families with harsh choices about what to cut elsewhere.
For those on average incomes, it means the axe falls on the nicer things in life, such as the annual holiday or the occasional meal out. At the bottom of the income scale, already suffering from cuts to welfare benefits, the “choice” is not between an iPhone 5 or 6, but between shivering or eating.
At the top of the utility companies the view is very different. Just weeks after arguing against consumers having their bills capped to save them £100 a year, the boss of one utility, SSE, was given a 72% pay rise to £2.92m after this “robust performance”. The reward comes after years of bumper dividend payouts which have doubled from 32.7p a share 10 years ago to 62.5p most recently.
The water companies have also been fabulous performers – for the stock market, not you. As a study by the University of Greenwich found last month, consumers are paying around £2.3bn more a year in water and sewerage bills to the privatised companies than if they had remained in state ownership.
It found they have invested no significant new shareholder equity, but have managed to extract nearly all of their post-tax profit as dividends. The report calculated that every household is worse off by around £100 a year as a result.
The Santander research into household costs found that it wasn’t just the energy and water companies stiffing us with rising bills. Council tax has risen by 27% since 2006, while TV, phone and broadband prices are up 24%. Every bill that Santander looked at had risen faster than wages. What’s more, its research didn’t include the biggest bill for most young adults – the rent.
Is the rise in bills a failure of privatisation? Mostly. But it’s also a failure of the sector regulators who are immersed in the neoliberal consensus that private markets and competition always provide the best outcomes for consumers. They can – but very often do not.
In my column last week I asked why Britain’s smart meter rollout was costing £11bn and France’s just £4bn. One industry insider contacted me to say that it was partly because France’s “Linky” programme is for electricity meters only, whereas the UK’s is both electricity and gas. But it’s also because France does not have competition among utility providers, and we do.
Here, each supplier has to install smart meters only for their own customers, which means they can’t just go “street to street” – they have to contact individual customers wherever they live, agree for them to allow access and organise engineers around that.
The result is that we will be wasting billions in duplicated activity, with the bill passed on to consumers to satisfy the rules on “competition” – and also ensuring shareholders continue to receive those dividends.
From yesterday's Guardian
Who you should really blame for feeling so badly off
The Guardian1 Jul 2017Patrick Collinson [email protected]
Escalating … the pile of household bills
The mood of the country, we are told, is turning against years of governmentimposed austerity. We are fed up with being squeezed by spending cuts; we are rebelling against 1% pay caps – and we are absolutely right to do so. But the real reason the average household feels so badly off is less to do with government cuts and more to do with profiteering by private companies.
Research this week by Santander blows the whistle on the ever-growing portion of our monthly pay that goes on largely unavoidable household bills. It looked at bills for gas, electricity, water, TV, phone and so on – and found they have escalated in price far, far ahead of average wage rises. Since 2006, average pay packets in Britain have gone up by 19% in pounds and pence terms (in other words, not adjusting for inflation). Meanwhile, the average gas bill has gone up 73%, electricity 72%, and water 41%.
These are extraordinarily large real rises, and all the grimmer for families and pensioners on very tight budgets. These are the bills that simply have to be paid, leaving families with harsh choices about what to cut elsewhere.
For those on average incomes, it means the axe falls on the nicer things in life, such as the annual holiday or the occasional meal out. At the bottom of the income scale, already suffering from cuts to welfare benefits, the “choice” is not between an iPhone 5 or 6, but between shivering or eating.
At the top of the utility companies the view is very different. Just weeks after arguing against consumers having their bills capped to save them £100 a year, the boss of one utility, SSE, was given a 72% pay rise to £2.92m after this “robust performance”. The reward comes after years of bumper dividend payouts which have doubled from 32.7p a share 10 years ago to 62.5p most recently.
The water companies have also been fabulous performers – for the stock market, not you. As a study by the University of Greenwich found last month, consumers are paying around £2.3bn more a year in water and sewerage bills to the privatised companies than if they had remained in state ownership.
It found they have invested no significant new shareholder equity, but have managed to extract nearly all of their post-tax profit as dividends. The report calculated that every household is worse off by around £100 a year as a result.
The Santander research into household costs found that it wasn’t just the energy and water companies stiffing us with rising bills. Council tax has risen by 27% since 2006, while TV, phone and broadband prices are up 24%. Every bill that Santander looked at had risen faster than wages. What’s more, its research didn’t include the biggest bill for most young adults – the rent.
Is the rise in bills a failure of privatisation? Mostly. But it’s also a failure of the sector regulators who are immersed in the neoliberal consensus that private markets and competition always provide the best outcomes for consumers. They can – but very often do not.
In my column last week I asked why Britain’s smart meter rollout was costing £11bn and France’s just £4bn. One industry insider contacted me to say that it was partly because France’s “Linky” programme is for electricity meters only, whereas the UK’s is both electricity and gas. But it’s also because France does not have competition among utility providers, and we do.
Here, each supplier has to install smart meters only for their own customers, which means they can’t just go “street to street” – they have to contact individual customers wherever they live, agree for them to allow access and organise engineers around that.
The result is that we will be wasting billions in duplicated activity, with the bill passed on to consumers to satisfy the rules on “competition” – and also ensuring shareholders continue to receive those dividends.
See crook!!!
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