There are lots of small initiatives, either at the user end -- e.g. turning off stand-by switches, drinking tap water -- or the supply end -- e.g. wind energy, tidal energy.
Few of us are fortunate enough to enjoy clean municipal tap water -- the rest have to make do with clunky bacteria-riddled filters and wasteful bottled H2O.
These days it has managed to persuade Indians to stop boiling their otherwise undrinkable tap water and instead use a now-ubiquitous water purifier known as "Aquaguard, " which has a 75% market share.
British experts, tasting an array of expensive bottled waters for a consumer magazine, awarded top marks to a humble sample of tap water from Thames Water, a less-than-fashionable utility.
Consumers can reduce the amount of water through direct action - by applying a water-saving showerhead, shutting off the tap during teeth brushing, by not disposing of medicines, paints or other pollutants down the sink etc.
After a five-day cover-up, tap water was turned off for more than three million residents of Liuzhou city.
Jim Noe, general counsel of shallow-water drilling contractor Hercules Offshore defended shallow-water drilling, saying such projects tap relatively low-pressure reservoirs, making blowouts less likely.
Entrants representing countries from Bosnia to South Korea submit a total of more than 100 waters among four categories, including best municipal (tap) water, best bottled non-carbonated water, best bottled carbonated water and best purified (distilled or mechanically filtered) water.
They each had a balcony, a spectacular view, iced water on tap and a direct-dial telephone.
He told them that guards were refusing to provide bottled water and telling prisoners to drink from tap water that inmates believe is non-potable.
The Japanese government now says that levels of radioactive contamination beyond the legal health limits have been found in tap water in a town nearly 30-miles (46-kilometers) northwest of the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
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Giora Gutman, chief executive of Mekorot's international arm, says that they will jointly tap emerging public-private opportunities in India's water sector.
The law came into effect on January 1, after a three-year campaign to reduce waste and encourage tap water use.
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SodaStream International is a developer, manufacturer, and marketer of at-home carbonated beverage-making machines and associated products that enable tap water to be turned into carbonated soft drinks and sparkling water.
For the same reason, if your tap water is treated with chlorine, install a chlorine-filtering showerhead.
Leiba says that activated carbon water filters -- like Brita pitchers or faucet attachments -- are a safe and affordable option for filtering tap water.
It's on the farm of Gunnar Ingvarsson, the 74-year-old who decided 20 years ago to tap the boiling hot water spewing out of the ground.
Mount Mews garage - which is in the world's fourth most expensive place to live in - comes with a driveway, parking area and a mains water tap.
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Incidents such as the recent discovery of more than 6, 000 dead pigs in Shanghai's Huangpu River, which supplies much of the city's tap water, make China a particularly hard sell, said Doreen Jaeger-Soong, managing director of legal recruitment firm Hughes-Castell.
Tokyo residents were warned on Wednesday not to give tap water to babies less than a year old because levels of radioactive iodine - which can cause thyroid cancer - are twice the recommended safe level in some areas of the city.
Very short sleepers drank less tap water and consumed fewer total carbohydrates and lycopene, found in red and orange-colored fruits and vegetables and high in cancer-fighting antioxidants, than people with other sleep patterns.
That compares with 37 gallons of other water, which includes tap, sparkling, flavored and enhanced waters such as Coca-Cola's vitaminwater.
Mr. KOSSA-RIENZI: What we're intending to do with this whole program is carbonate our own local tap water and then serve it to the guests at no charge.
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