TORONTO, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- Toronto city councilors voted to impose a 5-cent fee on plastic shopping bags at supermarkets next year to help with landfill costs.
TOKYO, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- Japan's Otsuka Beverage Co. says it is recalling an estimated 8 million bottles of its Crystal Geyser brand mineral water after complaints of strange smells.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- A non-profit group says 10 U.S. bottled water brands contain 38 different pollutants but the water bottling industry says its water is fully regulated.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Sept. 24 (UPI) -- Residents of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. waited Wednesday to find out whether their tap water was safe to drink after a spill at the city's treatment plant.
NEW YORK, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- A New York man said he has taken to bottling tap water and selling it in local stores in an attempt to keep water "honest and local."
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- The U.S. Geological Survey is proposing a strategy for studying the nation's ground-water supply in view of increasing competition for water.
BUFFALO, N.Y., July 25 (UPI) -- A University at Buffalo professor of medicine and specialist in geographic medicine says those attending the Olympics in China shouldn't drink tap water.
WASHINGTON, July 24 (UPI) -- Eleven potential drinking water contaminants will not be regulated, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency determined Thursday.
MIAMI, June 30 (UPI) -- The bottled water industry has convenience, fashion and fear on its side, industry observers and U.S. mayors have said.
PITTSBURGH, June 28 (UPI) -- Pittsburgh's mayor wants to lessen the city's bottled water consumption, but old pipes in the city-county building are getting in the way, a spokeswoman said.
NORTHAMPTON, England, June 25 (UPI) -- Some 250,000 residents of Britain's East Midlands have been warned to boil their drinking water to ward off possible cryptosporidium bacteria contamination.
OTTAWA, May 22 (UPI) -- Canada's Supreme Court Thursday denied damages to a man who claimed major psychological damage after finding a dead fly in his bottled water.
DENVER, April 27 (UPI) -- Tap water being consumed in 37 small Colorado communities has been found to have violated state health standards, state records show.
CHICAGO, April 21 (UPI) -- Tests of Chicago's drinking water turned up low levels of the bug repellent DEET, the Chicago Sun-Times said.
GARLAND, Texas, April 14 (UPI) -- Most bottled water is exempt from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulation because it is packaged and sold in the same state, an expert notes.
