What does 'Evian' spell backwards?.........
'...tap water is just as good as the stuff you find encased in plastic… What is Evian spelled backwards?' asked John Dee, as spokesperson for the Bottled Water Alliance, when commenting on the victory in Bundanoon, Australia, where the local community voted to ban bottled water. Of the 356 people who attended the community meeting, 355 of them voted in favour of a total ban on bottled water. Only 1 person voted against the ban.
Late last year students at Leeds University voted to phase out the sale of bottled still water from all their bars, cafes and shops. Unfortunately other communities in the UK have been slow to follow the lead. But now the Leeds City Council claims it is saving more than £30,000 by cutting bottled water dispensers from many of its offices and using tap water for drinking instead.
Greenpeace in Canada names saying goodbye to bottled water as the number one way of greening your office. 'When you buy bottled water, you are participating in the privatization of our water supply' they argue. Meanwhile, The Yes Men have been busy promoting their own line of bottled water. It's not from the melting Alps, nor from faraway, clean-water-deprived Fiji, but rather from the contaminated ground near the site of the 1984 Bhopal catastrophe.
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