A small town in Australia has outright banned bottled water from being sold within the city limits. The whole story started when a Sydney based bottled water company asked permission to extract millions of liters of water out of the local aquifer.
What happened next was shocking. The townspeople rationalized that the bottled water company would ship their water a hundred miles to Sydney, smack their label onto it, then turn around and ship it back to them. They thought this was a huge waste of time and resources.
They then took it a step further and banned bottled water from their store shelves, and encouraged residents to use tap water. This started a “world wide debate about the social and environmental effects of bottled water”.
While I was reading this on Greek Fork, I learned that bottled water is actually less regulated than tap water. Bottled water is checked by the FDA, which might get to a bottling plant every couple of years. On the other hand, tap water is regulated by the EPA as well as state and local governments.
Take this information for what you will. Think of the environmental impact of transporting water around country the next time you buy a case of bottled water.
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