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July 26, 2007
Bottled Water Under Attack
In addition to San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, which we published about last month, Salt Lake City Mayor Ross "Rocky" Anderson and Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak, have joined in calling for a City ban on the wastefulness of bottled water use.
In addition, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has issued an
executive order prohibiting the use of city money to buy bottled water, and the Ann Arbor City Council in Michigan last month approved a measure calling for city events to be bottled-water-free.
Municipal water supplies are just as good as bottled water and are monitored far more closely, city officials around the country say. And a gallon of tap water typically costs less than a penny, up to 10,000 times less than an equivalent gallon of bottled water, according to the mayors.
"When you factor in that water is something that is free and available to you, and then the oil and plastic that are consumed, and the transportation halfway around the world in some cases, bottled water becomes a product whose value isn't clear," said Natural Resources Defense Council spokeswoman Jennifer Powers. "I think there's a real thirst -- no pun intended -- on the part of people who want to play a part in doing something to help the environment, and this is one issue where there is another alternative," as reported by the Chicago Tribune.
Posted by Stephen Betheil at July 26, 2007 03:38 PM
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