The Quench Weekly Water Top 10 recaps the week’s top stories on drinking water issues. Come back each week for the latest news! Massachusetts Breaking Ground – Concord has become the first town in America to entirely ban the sale of bottled water.   Granite City Water Plant Wins Award – The plant won the [...]

It recently was made shockingly clear to me just how expensive bottled water really is. I know it can cost up to ten thousand times more than its tapped counterpart but didn’t really know how much that was. The Wallstreet Journal’s Speakeasy blog put it all into perfect perspective with a recent article that revealed Americans [...]

The Quench Weekly Water Top 10 recaps the week’s top stories on drinking water issues. Come back each week for the latest news! Water Conservation Month – April is one of the highest water demand months and, coincidentally, it’s also water conservation month. Start building better water habits with these helpful and quick tips!   [...]

A new battle has broken out over water and this time it isn’t about  the latest institution to ban bottled water. Palm Beach County bagel vendor, The Original Brooklyn Water Bagel Co., claims to have devised a new water treatment method that produces an exact chemical replica of  New York City’s “famously pure” tap water. [...]

If you read our blog you will remember the recent ban-repeal-ban story about the Grand Canyon National Park and it’s (final) decision amidst a flurry of accusations that the park was being influenced by Coca Cola to ban the sales of bottled water. Well listen up, this is one instance away from becoming a trend. [...]

The Quench Weekly Water Top 10 recaps the week’s top stories on drinking water issues. Come back each week for the latest news! World Water Day: A Pictoral Retrospect – Check out this awesome slide show celebrating World Water Day in photos! Here’s a (very) small preview: UC Berkeley and Emerson College Fall In – [...]

Emerson College in Massachusetts and UC Berkeley in California are the latest to add themselves to the growing list of institutions in the process of banning the sale of bottled water. According to news sources, with the recent addition of UC Berkeley and Emerson, the number of schools and universities in America to have totally [...]

So you probably know that we’re all supposed to drink a recommended eight glasses of water per day, right? Well I bet you never stopped to consider how much money it actually costs to get your daily dose. Brace yourself, because the difference is staggering. From the tap: $0.50/yr Bottled: more than $1,400/yr Sure makes [...]

Hey, Time Magazine said it, not us. According to this article, bottled water ranks in at number four on Time’s “12 Things You Should Stop Buying” list. With the current markup, you’re likely paying more than a dollar per gallon for something that you can get for pennies with the proper filtration system. And what most brands [...]

The Quench Weekly Water Top 10 recaps the week’s top stories on drinking water issues. Come back each week for the latest news! Indian Tribe Fighting Oklahoma Government Over Water – The Choctaw and Chickasaw tribe took their dispute to court, asking that Oklahoma stop taking their water to send to Oklahoma City.   Marin County’s [...]