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Press Release: Can bottled water be considered sustainable? It is according to the corporate spin-doctors at Fiji Natural Artisanal Water. The company, which already profits on taking a natural resource from an island that often suffers from drought and shipping it around the globe, is now capitalizing on the current public fervor for environmentally friendly products by labeling its water as ‚green.”

Press Release: Farm and consumer groups today urged the Farm Bill conference committee to preserve the livestock market and contract reforms in the Livestock Title of the Senate version of the Farm Bill, especially in light of a new expert panel report on the negative impacts of industrial farm animal production.

Press Release: Today Food & Water Watch filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Food & Drug Administration after the agency withheld information on how many inspections of products and facilities it conducted over the past seven years across the country.

Press Release: Statement of Food & Water Watch Executive Director: Today‚ report by the National Research Council confirms what advocates for the environment, public health, and consumers have been saying for years: rushing to provide our nation‚ water supply through ocean desalination is truly a risky venture.

Press Release: Today, just seven years after boldly acquiring the largest private water utility in the United States, international utility giant RWE announced that it was getting out of the water business, issuing a public offering of American Water on Wall Street. The Germany-based company had to lower the price of the opening shares by 10%, likely due to lack of interest among investors.

Press Release – After two months and over one hundred and forty entries from young activists and filmmakers across the country, the celebrity-judged I “Heart” Tap Water national video contest has a final winner just in time for Earth Day. Using a variety of media including claymation and animation, students creatively declared their love for tap water on film and pledged to rid their campuses of bottled water. 30 Rock actor Alec Baldwin was one of many judges representing the environment, film, students, and non-profit organizations to choose the first-place winner of the contest who will receive $1,500.

Press Release: Statement of Food & Water Watch Executive Director: On Monday, Ohio passed a milk-labeling rule that could deny all Americans important information about how their milk was produced. Governor Strickland, and the Ohio Department of Agriculture‚ rule limiting hormone-free milk labels goes far beyond the Food and Drug Administration‚ guidance. It is clear that this rule was crafted for industrial agribusiness and not consumers.

Press Release: Commercial-scale open ocean aquaculture will not eliminate our seafood trade deficit despite government claims, according to a new report by Food & Water Watch. The report entitled “Fish Story: Why Offshore Fish Farming Will Not Break U.S. Dependence on Imported Seafood”, explains why ocean fish farming, the growing of fish in huge cages out in open ocean waters, will not reduce the $9.2 billion U.S. seafood trade deficit and in fact poses a grave threat to oceans, coastal communities and fishing.

Press Release: A deceptive and questionable food technology approved by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration is putting consumers health at risk, according to a new report released today by Food & Water Watch. The report entitled “Carbon Monoxide : Masking the Truth About Meat?” details the use of this toxic gas in meat and fish packaging to create a red color typically associated with freshness — a practice that is considered misleading and unsafe by several consumer groups.

Press Release: The UN Human Rights Council missed a critical opportunity to recognize the human right to water. Instead, as a result of lobbying by the United States and Canada, it passed a watered-down resolution protecting a corporation‚ right to sell water.