Green | September 28, 2009 | 5 comments

Aussie town bans bottled water

source: http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Australian-Town-Bans-Sale-Of-Bottled-Water-For-E...

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A small, backwater Australian town has banned commercially-bottled water from going on sale in a move thought to be a world-first.

The ban means bottled water can no longer be bought in the town of Bundanoon, a town two hours from Sydney. Instead, resuable water bottles have gone on sale and locals can refill them for free at new drinking fountains.

Not that this has been done for purely environmental reasons, despite campaign spokesman John Dee's assertion that Bundanoon is "at the very local level of real and measurable change."

In fact, locals were just a bit miffed that a new Sydney drinks company had plans to build a new water extraction in the plant. Huw Kingston, a cafe owner, said townsfolk were horrified by the idea of them taking water in Bundanoon, trucking it to Sydney and bringing it back in bottles to be sold in shops at 300 times the tap price.
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5 comments // Aussie town bans bottled water

  • csmonut
  • Skyscraper08
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      Skyscraper08  

    • I love the fact that you can refill at drinking fountains; paying for water in a bottle has always been something I've frowned upon.

      London needs this; hello Hilary Benn.

    • 2 years ago
  • Drhow2019
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      Drhow2019  

    • WOW i love this action not only is it good for the environment by cutting down the costs of manufacturing, filtering, bottling, and transportation both ways. This should be implemented everywhere by transporting the water through pipelines instead of using huge fuel consuming transportation and ever polluting "disposable" water bottles.

    • 2 years ago
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