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Even so, Americans still consume more bottled water than any others in the world. We buy an estimated half a billion plastic bottles of water every week — and ...
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It was the Fourth of July, a warm summer night in 2014, but Tim Monahan was shivering in a thick blanket as he watched fireworks from his front yard here. By ...
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