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The US Conference of Mayors (USCM) today passed Resolution 70, misleadingly titled "Supporting Municipal Water Systems," at its annual meeting in Miami, Florida. The resolution is riddled with erroneous statements and errors about bottled water regarding its comprehensive regulation by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), varied product costs and the industry's minimal use of natural resources. The USCM resolution also ignores the bottle water industry's long history of environmental stewardship, its light-weighting of plastic containers, the fact that every bottled water container is 100 percent recyclable and the industry's support for broad-based, single-stream community recycling efforts.

Metro will allow water on its buses and trains and in stations this weekend as Washington copes with record-breaking heat. Bottled Water Matters is the official voice of the bottled water companies, formed by the IBWA. Give bottled water consumers a voice to share their ideas about bottled water facts, types of bottled water, mineral water brands, bottled water, water bottle labels