Bundanoon - Small Australian town Bundanoon is on the way to become Australia's first bottled water free town. Local businesses in the town of 2,500 people are proposing to replace the bottles with reusables and then offer directions to filtered water fountains that will be installed on the main street.

The campaign was suggested by a local businessman after a company applied to pump water out of a local aquifer to supply the bottled market. The residents of Bundanoon are meanwhile preparing to vote on their town's plan to ban local shops from selling plastic bottles of water.

Some facts, listed at the local internet community platform:

* Some 400,000 barrels of oil annually are used to manufacture the plastic that goes into the bottles that slake Australia's thirst for bottled water
* Only 30 percent of these bottles are recycled
* In 2008 Australians were expected to spend more than $450 million on packaged water
* The average price of bottled water is $2.53/litre against 1 cent/per litre for tap water
* The beverage industry loves bottled water because the costs of producing it are minimal. Just think of the ingredients in bottled water
* The residents in Bundanoon have a fine product called Bundanoon Natural Tap Water

Meanwhile New South Wales Premier Nathan Rees has ordered all State Government departments and agencies to stop buying bottled water, following swiftly on plans for a small-town ban, the ABC News reported.

Quelle: Bundanoon community net

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