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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Your Leaders Will Determine What You May Eat or Drink
2009-07-15
Bottled Water Bans and Meat-Free Days

Our friends on Green Inc. have posted on a vote in the Australian town of Bundanoon to "ban bottled water to reduce carbon dioxide emissions associated with bottling and transporting the water":

Huw Kingston, a local businessman and the organizer of a campaign group, Bundy on Tap, said that 400 people turned up to the Bundanoon Memorial Hall to vote in favor of the ban, with only two casting dissenting votes, according to a report.

Free water fountains would be installed in the town to replace the bottled water, the report said.
Free water fountains are a good idea anyway. That was one of the things I missed when we lived in Europe.
Meanwhile, city workers in Ghent, a Flemish town northwest of Brussels, have opted to make Thursdays a "meatless day" and to eat vegetarian meals to improve health and reduce the impact of raising livestock on the environment, according to Ethical Vegetarian Alternative, a Belgian campaign group.
The Catholics had already taken Friday. But so long as it's only the city workers who took a pledge, it's not really a big deal.
h/t Instapundit
Posted by:Glenmore

#5  All my coffee and drinking water (ice too) has been reverse osmosis water since 1985.

You can really tell the difference when the coffee maker wears out without ever needing decalcifying cleaning.
Posted by: 3dc   2009-07-15 11:56  

#4  phil_b: Years ago I found out that the "powers that be" in my State created "pure water" organizations before they were fashionable. However, they did so to keep control over the system, so they could decide what "pure water" was.

And they were "liberal" about what they considered "pure water". Basically, anything but large chunks of feces was cool.

When LBJ started his push for clean water by setting up federal standards, it was pretty shocking how much crap the State had permitted. Sky high in heavy metals and arsenic, and volatile toxic waste like jet fuel and synthetics. In some parts of the State, natural fluoride levels were so high that it etched the teeth of children.

With the creation of the EPA, a lot of water wells were closed because of contaminants, and in some cases, superfund sites were set up to permanently mark areas for no well drilling.

We still have a lot of problems with various salts and phosphates. If you reverse osmosis our typical city water, you will get a substantial quantity of sludge.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2009-07-15 10:54  

#3  What about sodas or flavored water like gatorade? That's copacetic, right? Doesn't put out CO2 bottling that stuff, I guess.
Posted by: mojo   2009-07-15 10:48  

#2  Bottled water is about portability. You see these yahoos giving up their cell phones and be tied to wire connected to the wall to talk?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2009-07-15 09:54  

#1  Well paying $2 or more a litre for bottled water when equally good water was available from the tap for free was always the icon of liberal derangement for me. That was until Global Warming came along.

Now they have replace one irrational idiocy with another. Except this time they expect everyone else to pay for it.
Posted by: phil_b   2009-07-15 08:23  

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