Crews run out of bottled water following warning to avoid Airway Heights tap water.
AIRWAY HEIGHTS, Wash. — Crews ran out of bottled water Wednesday morning after Airway Heights residents were told not to drink from the tap due to ground water contamination.
More water is expected to be delivered by 11:00 a.m. to the Yoke’s at 12825 W. 17th.
On Tuesday, Airway Heights water customers were advised not to drink the city’s water or use it for cooking due to ground water contamination.
Airway Heights and Fairchild Airforce Base said preliminary groundwater sampling results for two water wells indicate high levels of two different acids (PFOS and PFOA).
The acids are classified by the EPA as emerging contaminants and are present in common household items and heat and fire resistant products, including aqueous film forming foam formulations that were used by the Air Force in fire trucks from 1970-2016 including those at Fairchild AFB.
The air force is validating the findings and they expect to provide final results to the city within two to three weeks.

The Startup That Wants to Sell You a Subscription to New York City Tap Water Explains Itself.
That is the concept behind Reefill, a start-up that aims to bring the subscription model to the simple, free act of filling up a water bottle at a cafe.
On Monday, I met Connorton and co-founder Jason Pessel, who had the idea for Reefill during a thirsty moment in Manhattan, at a crowded downtown café.
Two dollars a month is a sizable mark-up from the penny-per-gallon water costs from the tap.
That’s why, despite its founders’ proclivity for tap water, Reefill stations run the water they pipe from the city’s system through several more filters.
It’s tap water in a suit.
Then again, it’s hard not to look at both a "smart" fountain network and the bottled water industry and ask why the promise of the public drinking fountain—the kind you could access without a phone, without walking into a café—has failed even as Americans drink more water than ever before.
Incredibly, installing a new water fountain can cost New York City into the six figures; installing a Reefill, which piggybacks on the sunk costs of a store, costs a few thousand dollars.
And yet: New York City has nearly 2,000 public water fountains.
As a New Yorker, that’s a network I’m already subscribed to, and I’d like to see better results.

Essentia Water Hits Primetime with First National Integrated Brand Campaign.
The campaign, with a concentrated focus in key markets including Los Angeles, New York City and Portland, is based on Essentia’s belief that better hydration helps people do all the things that make them extraordinary and “unlocks their full potential” whether they’re an athlete, a musician, a computer programmer or a student.
We’re a democratic brand and we are calling out to all people who aspire to be a better version of themselves to join the Essentia Nation,” said Karyn Abrahamson, VP of Marketing and Brand Innovation at Essentia Water.
“We are also evolving our marketing efforts from purely product-centric to becoming an aspirational lifestyle brand that we believe people will connect with both physically and emotionally.
A brand that understands and cares about what they care about—healthy living and being at the top of their game.” Bottled water is now the number one drink in the U.S. for the first time in history, outpacing soda sales.
According to Beverage Marketing Corp, consumption of bottled water reached 39.3 gallons per capita in 2016, while carbonated soft drinks slipped to 38.5 gallons.
The premium unflavored bottled water category, where Essentia lives, has grown especially rapidly: approximately 20 percent annually over the past three years.
This increase of consumers looking for healthier alternatives to sugary drinks has allowed bottled water to break through, but with that comes the need for differentiation.
“Broadening our visibility across the nation puts Essentia in the primetime spotlight to compete successfully within the premium bottled water category.” About Essentia Water LLC Headquartered in Bothell, Washington, Essentia Water LLC produces supercharged ionized alkaline water with a 9.5 pH or higher that’s better at rehydrating.1 Pioneered in 1998, years ahead of industry trends, Essentia continues to be the #1 alkaline water brand sold nationally and the #1 selling bottled water in natural grocery stores.
Essentia Water is the only water included in the Physician’s Desk Reference and has been clinically shown to be better at rehydrating than a leading bottled water brand.1 It’s available nationwide in approximately 50,000 retail locations and Amazon.

Is bottled water better than tap water?
Here are eight things to know about bottled water in Singapore: 1.
And more brands have recently been added to the shelves, including two brands of alkaline water which were introduced at the Sheng Siong supermarket chain in 2016.
They are natural mineral water, packaged drinking water, mineralised drinking water, distilled water and spring water.
Chlorine concerns Some have switched to drinking bottled water due to worries over chlorine levels in tap water, but experts have said the level of chlorine in Singapore’s tap water is within acceptable limits.
Is it better for health?
According to a study published in the BMC Public Health journal in 2004, water with minerals was found to lower the blood pressure of people with low urinary excretion of magnesium or calcium.
However, experts told The Straits Times that more conclusive results are needed to support claims that alkaline water and oxygenated water are better for health.
Fluoride levels may pose risks to children Dr Wuang Shy Chyi, domain lead for water technology at Temasek Polytechnic’s School of Applied Science, said that due to their natural sources, mineral water can contain trace amounts of elements.
Associate Professor Richard Webster from Nanyang Technological University’s School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences said that water marketed as artesian or untouched by humans is not better, describing it as a "marketing gimmick".

Neighbors complain they have not had clean water in a year.
Neighbors at the Arundel Mobile Home Park told KREM 2 they have been told for years to not drink the water or even bathe in it.
“It’s ruining my clothes, it ruins my household appliances,” said Bruce Mullen, a resident.
People living in the trailer park said they have gotten notices to not drink the water, simply because it is not clean.
Some people said the owners of the park have compensated them for bottled drinking water.
“Then all the sudden, we’ve got no pressure,” said Dan Quine, another resident.
An employee told KREM 2 they are "following the rules" and directed all other questions to the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ).
The Idaho DEQ confirmed the trailer park is under a bottled water advisory, due to the fact their well water supply is “under direct influence of the Spokane River.” Suzanna Scheidt Miller, a senior drinking water analyst for Idaho DEQ in Coeur d’Alene confirmed a treatment system had been installed for the trailer park, but “it was determined earlier this month that the treatment did not sufficiently produce water meeting minimum treatment.” She said the issue became apparent when the river levels were recently elevated.
Miller said the DEQ met with the owner and a project engineer on Friday to talk about the water issue at Arundel, and to “evaluate other options to provide water uses with potable water as expeditiously as possible.” Miller said the owner of Arendel is required to give residents connected to Well #1 bottled water or reimbursement for bottled water until they remove the bottled water advisory.
“It makes me angry that my kids can’t go and get a cup of water,” said Amy Dillon, another resident.

Two brands of alkaline water were introduced at the Sheng Siong supermarket chain last year.
$134m The amount consumers here spent on bottled water in 2015, nearly 24 per cent more than in 2010, according to data from research firm Euromonitor International 1,000 How many times cheaper tap water is, compared to bottled water, according to national water agency PUB In fact, as brands come up with new ways to make their products stand out, the question is: Do their marketing claims hold water?
Experts say there are differences in the sources and treatment process, but it is difficult to say if one type is better than another.
They are natural mineral water, packaged drinking water, mineralised drinking water, distilled water and spring water.
Despite some studies affirming the benefits, experts told The Straits Times that more conclusive results are necessary to support claims for alkaline water and oxygenated water.
When it comes to the taste of water, most people cannot tell the difference, The Guardian reported in 2011.
"So, while it’s good to have natural minerals, it is also important to check the contents," she added.
But Mr Goh’s children do drink tap water when they are out.
Experts say the level of chlorine in Singapore’s tap water is within acceptable limits.
In 2016, chlorine levels in all the waterworks ranged from 2.04 to 2.98mg per litre, well within the World Health Organisation’s limits of 5mg per litre.

Bottled Or Boxed, There’s Water, Water Everywhere.
Grab A Retirement Saver’s Tax Credit Move over Coke and Pepsi, step aside Dr. Pepper, stand down, 7 Up.
Public health officials generally advise drinking 6 to 8 glasses of water a day.
If you drink from plastic bottles, you’re spending $1,400 a year for hydration, but you drink tap water, your cost is 50 cents.
First it was wine in a box, almost always the cheapest stuff you could find in the store, even though it made a heck of a lot of sense.
But as for wine in plastic bottles, which would seem to make even more sense for everyday wines?
Water, on the other hand, seems to go everywhere these days in 12-ounce throw-away plastic bottles.
Millions of them.
(Worldwide, over 600 million people do not have such access.)
Plain old tap water.

Would you buy Coca-Cola bottled water costing US$9?.
“Turn it into a social currency.” That’s the advice being given by one China marketing expert to Coca-Cola, as the US drinks giant launches what it is being billed as an ultra-luxurious Swiss sparkling water brand, a bottle of which costs double what a Starbucks venti cappuccino might cost.
In China there are people who will pay for Starbucks coffee even they don’t like coffee that much.” Traditionally a nation of tea drinkers, China has become the growth engine for the world’s largest coffee-chain, as the booming Chinese middle classes adopt a cup of coffee as an everyday indulgence, emblematic of their growing social status.
Last year, then Starbucks chief executive Howard Schultz projected that the China market may one day overtake the US, which has dominated the brand’s sales for nearly five decades.
Its white paper cups bearing the green logo of a twin-tailed mermaid carry not only the caffeinated liquid infusion, but also just the type of Western imagery aspired to by growing numbers of Chinese.
But when it comes to a bottle of plain water, it’s a different story, however, said Veronica Wang, associate partner with OC&C Strategy Consultants.
“The key here is how Coca-Cola justifies its price, by underlining its origin, functions or packaging.” China’s bottled water market has long been dominated by low- to mid-end domestic players such as Nongfu Spring and Hangzhou Wahaha, which typically charge less than three yuan per bottle, a fraction of the cost of a bottle of Coke’s Valser water.
But with China’s water pollution deteriorating, pipelines decaying, and sources of groundwater drying up, many have started shunning domestically-sourced products, fearing their quality, and that many might be contaminated.
“This new generation is trying to quench its thirst for premium goods, while caring about their health and wellness,”Wang said.
Yet still the price of a 500ml bottle of the Fiji branded water, sells on the shelves for only about 10 yuan.

Flashback to May 2008.
What is Aguanomics?
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in context Economics v ecology: Was Julian Simon Right about the Wrong Thing?
Related: Malthus and Carbon Trading, (stupid) Footprints and People versus Tigers (or Loggers) Scarcity and conservation: RAISE THE PRICE!, Elasticity of Demand, Feeling a Need explains why conservation isn’t always useful, Rationing in NorCal, Price and Efficiency, Water is Valuable!, Central Planning for Lawns, Paternalistic Water Management, You WILL Do This, Soviet LA, Wastewater, Golf in the Desert and God’s Water (what do believers say?)
Farmers: Rice, Water, Luck, Wisdom — farmers want profits, via water or rice.
Related: Photogenic Losers and Fat Cats (farmers), Fat Cats or Skinny Cats?
Related: Die!
Maybe tell Trump?
(funny) On these posts, I’ve changed my mind I had no idea Trump would come along and make Bush 2’s EPA appointments look so good

Chuck Norris comes to Provo to promote his bottled water, meet with fans.
It’s a bird, it’s a plane!
No, it’s Chuck Norris.
Norris happened upon his new bottled-water business by chance.
“A couple years back Texas was in a bad drought, and so everyone with land was drilling for water for their cattle,” explained Nitro, the black-bearded promotional face of Maverik who appears in many of the company’s advertisements and commercials.
CForce is most commonly associated with Maverik, but the water is also available through select brick-and-mortar stores and online.
On Thursday, he began in Santaquin, stopped by Provo, and ended in Sandy.
The truck is the grand prize in the company’s latest promotion using their customer-rewards system: Trail Points.
Right now we have six finalists chosen, we’ve got five more to go, and we’re picking one every month.
We will have 11 finalists, we’ll have a big party with Chuck Norris, and someone will pull the lucky number out and win the truck.” As fans waited eagerly to take pictures with Chuck and Truck Norris, one fan shared a Chuck Norris joke with his friend.