Customers frequently ask us how they can get great tasting, healthy and sustainably-sourced water into their KORs. We usually tell them to “go back to the tap.” But there’s another, even more sustainable, option for high quality water: Rain! It sounds impractical until you realize that there’s a growing rainwater harvesting movement that seeks to [...]

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It’s official.  The backlash against bottled water has finally “tipped” as Kim Jeffrey, the CEO of Nestle Waters, which controls 35% of the market, acknowledges his company’s damage to the environment.  His honesty is commendable.  Unfortunately for Nestle Water and peers, bottled water has become the new “cigarettes” - a disdainful bad habit.

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We’re rocking the homepage over at A+R, which features some of the coolest design objects you can find in Los Angeles and online.  We’re honored they decided to “hand-pick” KOR for their store!  Check ‘em out here….

About A+R on A+R:
A+R is British ex-pat Andy Griffith, a former film editor and self-avowed design junkie, and Rose [...]

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While we here in California suffer from our worst drought in years, residents of the Midwest face a different set of water issues. We recently got a firsthand view of these from our friends at the Chicago-based Wetlands Initiative. As John Sentell, TWI’s Executive Vice President explains, “Wetlands play an important role in healthy ecosystems [...]

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In what has to be one of the biggest ironies a new study is reporting that heavy use of bottled water can lead to “smokers lips”.  Frequent “puckering” of one’s lips to drink from bottled water bottles can create a similar pattern of wrinkles found on the faces of long-term, heavy smokers.  The following video [...]

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