Viewpoint: Concord, you can give up bottled water
We called our initiative Bundy On Tap. We’re a bit smaller than Concord with a population of about 2,000. We’re a town situated on the edge of a huge national park and a town that depends upon tourism.
Last year I had the idea for the town to voluntarily give up the sale of bottled water.
We had a well-informed community, given that we’d been fighting a water extraction plant for some years (a company wanted to truck 50 million litres a year from our aquifer to Sydney to stick in plastic bottles and then truck it around the country).
Almost 12 months ago, we held a community meeting to look at how we could do it. It turned into the largest community meeting ever in our small town and resulted in a 355 to 1 vote in favour of getting rid of bottled water.
We did this by convincing the local stores that they’d do better without bottled water. That the sale of refillable bottles, the increased tourism and increased support (by way of dollars across the counter) from the local community would more than make up for any loss of revenue.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/us_and_canada/10444394.stm
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