Many shops in Japan's capital ran out of bottled water on Thursday after a warning of radiation danger for babies from a damaged nuclear plant where engineers are battling the world's worst atomic crisis since Chernobyl.Full story
Rising radiation levels in Tokyo's drinking water prompted the Japanese government on Wednesday to urge parents to buy bottled water for their young ones. NBC Chief Science Correspondent Robert Bazell reports.
Tennessee Highway Patrol officers say they have seized more than $4 million in cash in duct-taped bundles hidden in cases of bottled water in a tractor-trailer, prompting the arrests of two California men. Full story
Debating whether bottled water is a good idea or a good marketing scam, with NBC News' Janet Shamlian; Joseph Doss, International Bottled Water Association; and Mitch Jones, Food & Water Watch.
Rim Fujimoto, 5, holds a bottle of water at a supermarket in Tokyo March 25, 2011. Tokyo's 13 million residents were told this week not to give tap water to babies after contamination from rain put radiation at twice the safety level. It dropped back to safe levels the next day, and the city governo
A woman buys bottled water imported from France at a convenience store in central Tokyo March 23, 2011. Japanese authorities advised against allowing infants to drink tap water in Tokyo due to raised radiation levels and the United States became the first nation to block some food imports from Japa
This June 29, 2008 photo shows discarded water bottles in a trash can in Washington, DC. A debate over water is boiling over in the United States and elsewhere amid growing environmental concerns about bottled water and questions about safety of tap water. The US Conference of Mayors in June passed
People queue to fill bottles and tanks with water at the Avoniel Leisure Centre in Belfast, Northern Ireland on December 29, 2010. Some 40,000 people were struggling to cope Wednesday without water supplies in Northern Ireland, where frozen pipes have burst, leaving some without fresh water for eig
