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| Cities Contemplate Banning Bottle Water |
| ... and I say, "It's about damn time!". | | | | The Canadian Federation of Municipalities is toying with the idea of banning the sale of bottled water on municipal properties. | | | | Setting aside the very real fact that there's a water war brewing in this world and that water privatization is scary as hell, the existence of bottled water is killing our environment. Our landfills are filled with the stuff and even if every bottled was recycled, the environmental cost of making those bad boys is outrageous. | | | And then you throw in the various studies showing that most bottled water is no better than what you get from the tap and personally, I'm left scratching my head.
| | | | To me, bottled water is one of the biggest scams in existence. I see it in the same category as "Botox" where our children and their children will look at us and say "WTF were you thinking?" |
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| "You mean, you used to BUY water from a BOTTLE when you could get it from the tap?" |
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And then they'll burst into laughter. Especially if the water wars continue and our children's children will be forced to buy water from a bottle because we'll have sold it all to a handful of corporations.
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| Treat your water like a commodity to be bought and sold and that's exactly what will happen. |
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| So "Kudos" to those municipalities who decide to follow through on this. There will be tons of pressure from Coke, Pepsi and the like but I'm hoping they stick to their guns. |
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| Drinking bottled water has become a cultural symbol, right up there with drinking from a Starbucks cup. It's a class symbol. But it's also learnt behaviour. And just as society is starting to shift towards carrying around travel mugs for their coffee, the same can be done for water. |
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| This may blow some people's minds, but there are such things as water bottles that you buy and you use over and over and over again. Yup. You buy it once and you keep using it again and again. And you fill it up with whatever you want. I know, it's crazy. But you should try it. All the cool kids do |
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| Reproduced courtesy of Feminist Catalyst on http://feministcatalyst.blogspot.com |
