Bottled Water can you really say its a wasteful habit? Truthfully.

Part of my job is to scan the internet for feedback, especially on bottled water and what people are saying about us. Now we know from this blog that I am PRO the environment and that we are often requested to do events for ECO-Friendly Events, because you can recycle our bottles. It takes the consumer to do that. What makes me just shake my head however, is people who think that all bottled waters are the same. I read on a diet-health-fitness-weight site (here's the stinging irony), that she says,

" In the past chefs and restaurateurs have used their celebrity and promoted bottled water. I hope in the future more will take a leadership role in weaning people off this unnecessary and wasteful habit. Why did drinking water out of a bottle become a status symbol?"

Then she goes on to name Aquamantra an "OUTRAGEOUS Bottled Water Product". I find that fascinating. First, I'd like to comment on her saying "weaning people of unnecessary and wasteful habit?" um.... Wasteful habit, cigarettes comes to mind, chewing gum, comes to mind, painting your nails ( a bit of a stretch) but could be considered wasteful, but drinking a healthy beverage that is not filled with pharmeceuticals? Maybe to keep your body clean and get a delicious tasting water instead of a nasty tasting water?

Like this headline?

Prescription drugs found in drinking water across U.S.

Here's the link on CNN for your own personal reading.

2nd. I don't know about the author of that Blog, but even if I didn't own a water company I'd be drinking bottled water, Natural Spring Water that is, not Aquafina or Dasani, there is where I would agree with her. Coke/Pepsi mask themselves as a healthy option, and the not so smart consumers drink it thinking they are healthy. Yet, when are the companies that are trying to do a good thing going to get a break in this arena? Why does it have to be an either or mentality? Can the good guys really be doing good? or is blanketing "all bottled waters" really helping the people trying to make a difference. If she bothered to read the labels on our bottles or check out the testimonials on our website, she might expand her mind to read into what our water offers. We are aligned with the highest principles of the universe, sharing the belief that everything is energy. Dr. Masaru Emoto, our personal hero showed us that in his research and books ( visit www.hado.net ). Our mission is to bring people back to the truth of who they are, remind them of who they are. That is no marketing gimmick. I am not rolling in the dough or am driving a yacht around from the proceeds of my business, I am focusing my efforts on creating this company to impact people everywhere and the fastest way to do that is thru a message that inspires, and stimulates their soul.

3rd. Water became fashionable when it crossed the boundaries into the new paradigm, combining and overlapping life and what we consume. Enough are the days of duality and one dimensional thinking, why wouldn't you want to drink a Natural Spring Water derived from Mother Earth with some gorgeous artwork on it and a mantra that inspires you to remember how special you are? This is why I created it. It makes me feel better to remember that I am Loved above all, that being said so is the author of ... http://diet-fitness-health-weightloss.blogspot.com/ she's got some great recipes on there.

Sending out LOVE~

It is easy to recycle plastic bottles

As part of my purpose in raising consciousness, AQUAMANTRA is also under the umbrella backlash of people saying that Bottled Water is bad. Why is it bad? Well, among the thousands of reasons people are banning the beautiful elixir of life, the one that is prevelant in my perspective is recycling. The Bottle Water industry is $500B and going strong, regardless of what the press says. So instead of banning bottled water, why don't we just recylce our bottles? Californians RULE because they recycled 14.7 BILLION containers last year! Its the rest of the states I'm concerned about. How valuable is our planet? When will it be too much trash? Too much plastic on the ground? There are only 11 out of our 50 states that mandate refundable deposits for PET bottles. I'm only one person, and how could I possibly make a difference? Source told me to make a video. I tried to blow it off, because again what difference can I make, as the kids from the local high school continue to litter on my street and those beautiful streets of Dana Point. I got a strong nudge, that I needed to get a message out. I put a post on Craig's List, and a handful of amazing people responded to help me in this message.

I set out to do some research and called upon California's Department of Recycling and what I found out is beautiful and easy! Please be part of the solution and spread the word.

By visiting www.bottlesandcans.com you can learn all about recycling. You will learn that by recycling PET bottles, you can save enough energy to run a television for almost 3 hours (teenagers!) Another of my beefs with my city is that everywhere I go there's no recycling containers, the beach, the mall, the local Starbucks, the local Ralph's Supermarket, and I could seriously go on for a long time. There is a solution! You can order a FREE recycle kit from California's Department of Recycling, and set it up in any office or store or school. You can make a difference, by just talking to local stores and asking them to get involved.

PLEASE LEARN MORE at www.bottlesandcans.com or www.conservation.ca.gov or call 1-800-RECYCLE

As for my video, stay tuned. We'll get a message out soon. We're even having Regina Rene, an amazing Hip-Hop Extradordaire create lyrics for our video. Its going to be awesome. Thanks for caring!

Recycle Away and Give the Mother Earth Another Day!

All Bottled Water is NOT BAD... take a closer look.

The Bottled Water Industry: When It Pours, It ReignsPosted May 20, 2008 12:12 PM (EST) Kerry Trueman writes an article about Elizabeth Royte book titled, Bottlemania. She says, " At a time when there's less water to go around and more people demanding it, Bottlemania makes the case that it's not in our interests to let private multinational corporations float their boats on our nation's water. That's not democracy, it's dam-ocracy, and it could damn us all if we let their unquenchable thirst for profit take precedence over our right to clean, safe, free drinking water."

Her article, speaks of the lack thereof and the dwindling resources of our country, with which I tend to agree. The hottest commodity in the future is water. I think its a respect, or lack thereof respect of our resources, but this is not a new concept for our nation. We are a suck it dry nation of consumerism, taking, taking and taking without any reprocussions, like spoiled children who just hold their hand out for more, not even knowing where more comes from. With all due respect to Kerry Truemen, she's not speaking fairly about the company's that are making a difference with respect to water. As we share, water is the most exquisite elixir of life, which is why company's who educate consumers and are responding in a positive aspect like Give Water or Charity Water or AQUAMANTRA, we are providing an altruistic opportunity to a beverage you most likely will buy from Coke or Pepsi, but we are smaller companies with an intention of improvement and good for the planet.

I would like to remind her that for every person who has positive intentions and good will, they will cancel out 50 negative people. So if we inspire thousands of people with our water, how can that be bad? And how is it also bad making a living off a commodity that people need? It's the oldest profession in the book is it not, to take something and reinvent it to make it available to people? AQUAMANTRA, for example, happens to be an amazing tasting water, people take a sip and are shocked, at how delicious it is. That is because we use quantum physics to make it taste that way. All of these articles about how drinking tap water is better, are false idiology, because tap water is gross! Its like trying to tell me that 2 buck chuck is really just as good for you as a 1984 Cabernet, its simply not true. People buy bottled water because its a healthy beverage, that tastes fabulous. That is not wrong! That is our constitutional choice. We can try and say we are in control, banning people from bringing water to schools and encouraging people to drink tap water, but at the end of the day, the choice is ours. We live in America for a reason, let's not make people bad for drinking a beverage that is good for you, and for letting them choose which one and how much they want tto spend.

In Terry's article, she might be referencing "corporations" which most people do, but before all these editors and authors cast stones on bottled water companies as a whole, I encourage them to do their homework. Some of us are trying to do a good thing, with respect to our environment. And while I agree with some aspects to her article, I do encourage an equal opportunity for water manufacturers, we're not all scoundrels out for the money. Some of us are trying to clean up the mess, using water's beauty and message to make a difference in the world. There's always two sides to every coin. I'm here to be the otherside. Bless you!

Lawmakers Can't Seem to Get it Right!

I use google headlines to keep up on bottled water news, and unfortunately why my voice needs to be heard on this issue is because lawmakers are making news with nonsense.

Read this below: Lawmaker to make green arguments hold water By Brian LockhartStaff WriterArticle Launched: 05/14/2008 01:00:00 AM EDT

State Rep. Beth Bye was unable to persuade lawmakers to ban bottled water from the Capitol, but the West Hartford Democrat now is in charge of finding ways to conserve. House Speaker James Amann, D-Milford, asked Bye to head a new task force charged with suggesting ways state employees can consume less water, paper and electricity. "I think you have to lead by example," Amann said. "The only way we're going to make other people 'go green' is to have them see leadership starting from the state."

I think this is quite humorous. Leading by example. Hmmmm? Do I really want to follow this idiocracy? What planet am I on? Once again we have lawmakers working on the intent to ban water, ohhhhhhh and save 250 bottles of water, yeah! What are we saving bottles for? Why don't these lawmakers get a clue and just recycle? Save the hassle, save the headache and oh, here's an idea? put a recycling container there and make some money for your state. Lead by example by creating more resources, rather than just banning the beverage all together.

At the end of this article it says, Bye said she did not win a bottled-water ban (THANK GOD) but succeeded in persuading House Democrats to drink from the tap. She bought a portable water cooler with a spigot for the capitol basement and volunteered to refill it. "I had to go a couple of times a day during the session, up and down," Bye said. "People aren't used to seeing legislators with carts doing physical labor. But in two days, we saved over 250 water bottles."

Well, that sure seems like a good use of our tax paying dollars doesn't it? Once again, it just points our where the brilliance is in our government is, ABSENT! I'm sure I've stated it before but there's a 114 Million dollar fund, or at least there was last year in California and each city can utilize those funds for recycling in their own city. FREE MONEY for a BIG PROBLEM. FREE MONEY, to make the consumers the heros and not the bad guys. So if our officials are so smart, why are they wasting our money trying to find a solution, which STINKS; drinking crappy, pharmaceutical filled, large moleculed, chlorinated and florinated TAP WATER? Hmmmm. Or I can pick up a beautiful bottle of my favorite choice of water, because it's healthy for me and I love the yummy crisp clear flavor of AQUAMANTRA, but as conscious consumer I recycle it. Easy as 1-2-3. Am I missing something here? Why is this so hard? I am an AQUARIUS and a Humanitarian and a Visionary. I'm not sorry for speaking my voice. I am here to ruffle the feathers and make people think. We are not drones and we are not living in a communist society, or at least we don't think so. So why does our government think its okay to ban the beautiful elixir of life, water because its in a plastic bottle? MMMMMMMMMMM> would Coke have a problem if you banned Coke from the Federal building? Do we need to build a lobby for saving the planet to help get this message to them? Do we need to pay them to think the right way?

This is me scratching my head. I thought we were moving to the smarter aspect of our humanity.

Why is the word RECYCLE SO HARD???

Seriously! I am trying to send love and peace to the solution of why plastic bottles have become an issue. Not soda bottles, not shampoo bottles, but the beloved Water Bottle. The one that is the healthiest solution for everyone. I just learned today that there is an upscale high school in LA that is banning the kids from bringing plastic bottles of water to school... SERIOUSLY! Is this for real? Now the constitution doesn't matter, you can't bring water with you? Is it really that? I was told it was because they are trying to go green? Black is more like it! Green? Try recycling? Do you know how many products can be made out of recycled products? Do you know how many people recycle? Why is that? Because the stores, the government, the schools, and eVeryone don't want to spend the money to buy recycling containers! Seriously! So that sounds good, a ban, let's just ban it. Instead of teaching the children a way to be sustainable and help the environment, let's just make their life difficult, make'em drink tap water, so they get giardia, yeah! That's green. Seriously! Someone HELP! DOES ANYONE know anyone in the press who I can speak to? Anyone know the Governor? Anyone know a solution? Its as if the obvious is not so obvious... So sad... who's unconscious now...

Natural PLA (Plastic) Waste of Time

Along with being a conscious consumer and the creator of conscious water, I am always seeking new ways to make our "plastic" better. The number one complaint we get from people is about the plastic. But why is it our fault that the average consumer can't recycle their own plastic? For one, there's no recepticles that easy to find and number two the average consumer is not as conscious as we'd like to believe. I heard about PRIMO launching its new natural Bottle made of PLA, plants they say. So I called the manufacturer and spoke with a representative of the PLA Preforms. I asked him how we could use the preforms for our products and here's what I was told: 1. Your company isn't big enough to use the Natural Product, which is by the way Corn. This is no different than BIOTA water. 2. Unless we purchase 2 Million preforms a month, we are in no way allowed to use this natural resource. Why? Because a regular recycler cannot recycle these PRIMO bottles. They have to have set up special recycling programs specifically for these bottles, because they are compostable. So now, the inspiration to use non-plastic bottles creates more upheaval on our planet, as if the poor corn isn't ruining our environment with the excess of ethenol, its now not recyclable either. Which is great for the unconscious consumer right? 3. How can we solve this problem? RECYCLE? Why is it the government isn't getting involved in providing more recycling cannisters? More systems? Do you know how much we can do if we recycle? So don't be hate'n the plastic people, be part of the solution and not the problem. Create your own recycling programs, its a great way to fundraise and create a more sustainable planet. Until then, we will continue to search for the best possible solution for your water, AQUAMANTRA, inside and out! Peace!

Tap water sucks! You can't make me.

I LOVE MY AQUAMANTRA , is all I can say. Mostly, we drink spring water with the labels of Aquamantra I AM LOVED, LUCKY or HEALTHY on it. Our water cooler broke. We have to drink water even though drinking from the tap is something not even my dogs can do. A friend of mine gave me a filter to put on the faucet that is supposed to clear chlorine, etc. Which I'm sure it does, but the taste of it? Well, I might as well go lick my tires! Even cold. I thought, I'd give this a try. I mean environmentalist and bottle-haters make a stink of it, so what if I couldn't have my Aquamantra? I put the tap water in the Aquamantra bottles and refridgerated them. Still ick. Then I added some hydrating drops I got at a show, to give it a more micro-cluster. Still ick. Then I added ph additives, for a different batch. And all the while... my mouth is feeling fuzzy. Almost like I was growing fuzz on the inside of my mouth, the sides of my tongue are hurting and it feels disgusting! Is this what they want us to do? Its not merely a matter of sacrificing, its a matter of f'n hygeine! SORRY, but ... I'd rather pay high for delicious natural spring water than have a fuzzy mouth for trying to stay hydrated. Just my 2 cents.