Bottled water bans spread across Canada
Throughout Canada, citizens are asking for bans on bottled water, which is costly, environmentally damaging, and less regulated for safety and water quality than public water supplies.
March 10 will mark the second annual Bottled Water Free Day encouraging citizens to request bottled water bans within municipalities, schools, and workplaces.
Another initiative challenges municipalities to become Blue Communities. Two criteria are to promote publicly financed, owned, and operated water services and ban the sale of bottled water in public facilities and at municipal events.
“Canada has one of the best drinking water systems in the world,” says the Council of Canadians, but according to the Canadian Union of Public Employees, “it’s increasingly difficult to access […]. Public fountains aren’t being maintained or installed in new buildings.”
Michelle Lalonde writes in the Montreal Gazette, “In Montreal, taxpayers are coughing up $250 million each year to ensure clean high-quality water runs from the taps. Then thousands of people buy plastic bottles of water and pay again to recycle them.”
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