<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Five Myths About Drinking Water : RSS 2.0</title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/</link><description></description><language>en-us</language><webMaster>plime.com</webMaster><copyright>2008, plime.com.</copyright><lastBuildDate></lastBuildDate><pubDate></pubDate><generator>Plime/1</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><image><title>Five Myths About Drinking Water : RSS 2.0</title><url>http://www.plime.com/images/logo.gif</url><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/</link></image><item><title><![CDATA[Five Myths About Drinking Water]]></title><description><![CDATA[Is bottled water better for you than tap? Or should you choose vitamin-enriched water over sparkling? Experts say, skip it all.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/57122/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/57122/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Bottled Water - Where Does That Water Come From?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The economic value of &quot;special water&quot; was first cultivated in Europe during the late 1700s when people began visiting natural springs to drink the water or bathe in it.   Then in 1767, Jackson's spa in Boston began bottling their water.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/18275/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/18275/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[The Anti-Bottled-Water Bottled Water Company]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tap&#8217;dNY is honest-to-goodness New York City tap water. It doesn&#8217;t come from French springs, Arctic glaciers, tropical islands, or Alpine peaks. It&#8217;s NYC tap water, just like Mom used to serve.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/world/l/74655/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/world/l/74655/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[9 Great Reasons to Drink Water, and How to Form the Water Habit]]></title><description><![CDATA[We all know that water is good for us, but often the reasons are a little fuzzy. And even if we know why we should drink water, it's not a habit that many people form.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/26399/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/26399/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Animation-There's Something in the Water]]></title><description><![CDATA[V Water - there's something in the water . A wicked animation advertisement for water.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/32390/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/32390/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Bottled Water - Bad to the Last Drop]]></title><description><![CDATA[&quot;This simple experiment seemed to confirm that most people cannot tell the difference between tap water and bottled water. Yet they buy it anyway - and in enormous quantities.&quot;]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/10662/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/10662/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Do You Really Need 8 Glasses Of Water Per Day?]]></title><description><![CDATA[We have all been bombarded with orders to drink more water every day or we could become dehydrated and if we don&#8217;t, oh no please help us, something terrible is going to happen, like we&#8217;re going to shrivel up and die.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/19389/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/19389/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[For once Justice wins in compensation case over fly in water bottle. ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Martin Mustapha found a dead fly in a water dispenser bottle in 2001 and brought a $300,000 suit against the suppliers.  At appeal, Mustapha, who never drank any of the water, didn't get the result he was after.  Not by a long chalk.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/62827/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/62827/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Weird water: Discovery challenges long-held beliefs about water's special properties]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scientists have long marveled over counter-intuitive properties that set water apart from other solids and liquids commonly found in nature. That is why Pablo Debenedetti and collaborators were surprised to find a highly simplified model molecule that behaves in much the same way as water, a discovery that upends long-held beliefs about what makes water so special.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/48855/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/48855/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Drinking from water bottles can lead to 'water lips']]></title><description><![CDATA[&quot;When you're drinking from a water bottle, you're pretty much making the same face as you are when you're smoking a cigarette,&quot; said Dr. Marilyn Berzin, dermatologist. &quot;Basically, when you're smoking, you're pursing your lips in this position, and you're getting all the little ridges. Over time you get permanent lines that then remain and stay.&quot;]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/64755/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/64755/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Plumbing blunder leaves Hiroshima U. students drinking toilet water since 1993]]></title><description><![CDATA[A plumbing blunder resulted in water for toilet flushing being sent to drinking taps for more than a decade.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/31835/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/31835/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Water Experts Find Earth Warming, Rainfall Linked to Sun]]></title><description><![CDATA[A team of water experts says the pattern of droughts and floods in South Africa shows our global warming was triggered by the variability of the sun&#8217;s irradiance rather than by human-emitted CO2. They say variations in South African rainfall patterns are keyed to periodic reversals of the sun&#8217;s magnetic field&#8212;and to the constantly changing distance between the sun and the earth as both move through space.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/29527/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/29527/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Myth Busters - No Firearm Penetrates 14-inches of Water]]></title><description><![CDATA[It has been proven that no firearm can penetrate 14 inches of water, not even the magnum .50 cal sniper rifle with steel-jacketed bullets, so this means that if you want to be safe from any bullet just stay under 14 inches of water in a river or lake.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/61910/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/61910/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Ice Cubes for sale, you have to freeze them yourself]]></title><description><![CDATA[And you thought bottled water was silly?]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/16325/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/16325/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Water Discovered in Moon Samples]]></title><description><![CDATA[Water has been found conclusively for the first time inside ancient moon samples brought back by Apollo astronauts. The discovery may force scientists to rethink the lunar past and future, although uncertainty remains about how much water exists and whether future explorers could extract it.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/68243/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/68243/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[The Time I Lost Control of My Bowels On the Water Slide]]></title><description><![CDATA[(hilarious craigslist entry)<br/>Our local water park is opening this weekend, so I'm posting in honor of this small town's most exciting annual event.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/19095/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/19095/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[The teenage girl who is allergic to WATER]]></title><description><![CDATA[Teenager Ashleigh Morris can't go swimming, soak in a hot bath or enjoy a shower after a stressful day's work - she's allergic to water. Even sweating brings the 19-year-old out in a painful rash. Ashleigh, from Melbourne, Australia, is allergic to water of any temperature, a condition she's lived with since she was 14.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/52340/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/52340/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[5 Really Weird Things About Water]]></title><description><![CDATA[Water, good ol' H2O, seems like a pretty simple substance to you and me. But in reality, water - the foundation of life and most common of liquid - is really weird and scientists actually don't completely understand how water works.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/73577/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/73577/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Sun's Temper Blamed for Loss of Water on Mars ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mars was wet in its early history, but today it appears bone dry other than ice below the surface and at the poles. Astronomers have long wondered where all the water went. The water might have been blown into space long ago by strong gusts of solar winds, new satellite observations suggest.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/32769/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/32769/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[AP Probe Finds Drugs in Drinking Water ]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the course of a five-month inquiry, the AP discovered that drugs have been detected in the drinking water supplies of 24 major metropolitan areas.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/53615/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/53615/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Toilet Water Cleaner Than Drinking Fountain]]></title><description><![CDATA[Middle School student Kyleray Katherman had a hunch something was amiss with the school's drinking fountain water. And right he was.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/23644/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/23644/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item></channel></rss>