Thursday, July 9, 2009

Australian town bans bottled water

A remote town in south-eastern Australia has become the first place in the world to ban bottled water.  
Bottled water: Shops in the town will now be banned from stocking and selling bottled water and filtered water fountains will be placed on Bundanoon's main street
Bundanoon, located in the picturesque Southern Highlands of New South Wales and boasts a population of just 2,000, voted by a huge majority in favor of the move with a show of hands at a public meeting.
Shops in the town will now be banned from stocking and selling bottled water and filtered water fountains will be placed on Bundanoon's main street so people can fill their bottles for free. Visitors to the town will also be discouraged, but not banned, from drinking bottled water.
Locals decided to act when drinks company Norlex Holdings announced plans to tap an underground reservoir in the town, truck the water up to Sydney and then send it back in bottles.
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