Drink from the sink
THE TITLE of a Government Accountability Office report “Bottled Water: FDA Safety and Consumer Protections Are Often Less Stringent Than Comparable EPA Protections for Tap Water“ released yesterday underscores what inside water people have said for years: forget bottled water, drink from the sink.
From the Associated Press via the Denver Post today, ”The GAO and the Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit research and advocacy organization, recommend in reports released Wednesday that bottled water be labeled with the same level of information municipal water providers must disclose. The researchers urged Americans to make bottled water ‘a distant second choice’ behind filtered tap water because there isn’t enough information about bottled water. But the working group recommends purifying tap water with a commercial filter.”
Sober from lawn
KILLING grass is relatively easy. Don’t water it. However, creating a beautiful, low-maintenance garden in its stead is the hard part. Help is at hand. From a large selection of dry gardening courses offered this summer, the theme that dominates is how to transition from lawn to a drought tolerant garden, one step at a time.
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Click on the poppy for foundations, colleges, nurseries and water districts offering courses and support for dry gardeners
Before it was sheet mulch
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