More climate change BS: Australian town bans bottled water

[sirbadman]

Climate change is shaping up to be the holy grail for ZOGs. The uber excuse for subjecting the goyim to all sorts of BS.

I actually think it could be the global religion which is part of the protocols.

There have been swipes in Australian tv recently against bottled water as if its a yuppie thing or as if its an anti environmental thing - there is a subtle campaign in the country against bottled water.

I drink bottled water, but not the normal crap on the shelves, i get pure distilled water in water cooler size bottles.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/e ... 665855.ece

Australian town bans bottled water

Anne Barrowclough in Sydney

Until yesterday the town of Bundanoon (population 2,500) was best known as the host of Australia's version of the Highland Games. Now it has become the world's first place to ban bottled water.

At a public meeting last night its people agreed to back the ban, which will mean local businesses will stop selling bottled water and visitors will be discouraged from drinking it. Instead, they will be provided with bottles labelled "Bundy on tap" that can be refilled with water from taps and filtered water fountains on the main street.

"It's a moral thing," said Huw Kingston, the owner of a coffee-and-bicycle shop who had already stopped selling bottled water. "It's not easy to do when you're running a business in a small country town — a thousand dollars is a thousand dollars.

"But the sale of still bottled water is a fantastic con by the beverage industry — convincing people to spend A$3.50 [£1.70] to buy essentially the water that comes out of a tap." Until recently it seemed that the world's love affair with bottled water would never end.
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Sales in Australia increased by 10 per cent last year, with Australians spending more than A $500 million on still and sparkling water.

This goes against the trend in the northern hemisphere, where sales have begun to fall.

In April Nestlé, whose brands include Perrier and San Pellegrino, nicknamed the "champagne of waters", reported that sales of its water fell by 4.1 per cent in the first three months of the year, with Western Europe particularly badly hit. Sales of bottled water in Britain — which had rocketed from 30 million litres in 1980 to 1.3 billion litres in 2007 — fell by 9 per cent last year as consumers reacted to high prices and the environmental impact.

Millions of plastic bottles fill landfill sites and litter the oceans.

What went down the wrong way in Bundanoon was when the beverage company Norlex Holdings announced plans to tap an aquifer in the town and transport the water 120 miles to Sydney for bottling.

The proposal was turned down after residents objected — giving rise to the "Bundy on tap" movement. The company appealed and the case is awaiting a ruling.

"Norlex wanted to truck millions of litres of water out of the bore here, stick it in bottles and bring it back to sell to us," said Mr Kingston. "It became a big issue in this town."

John Dee, an environmental activist who was behind a ban on plastic bags in Tasmania, said: "The main idea is to get people thinking about their usage of bottled water — environmentally, it makes no sense."

[abduLMaria]

"But the sale of still bottled water is a fantastic con by the beverage industry — convincing people to spend A$3.50 [£1.70] to buy essentially the water that comes out of a tap."

it's such a personal thing.  like what brand of condom does a person use.

i would be very happy to drink good water if that's what came out of the tap.  but i'm not interested in drinking water with fluoride.

sometimes when i'm gardening & want chlorine-free water, i let the water sit in a bucket for 24 hours so that the chlorine has a chance to evaporate or whatever it does.

some municipal water is just plain dangerous.  Lockheed had a plant in the San Bernardino Valley that leached perchlorate - the kind used in rocket fuel - into the drinking water.  they then paid $650K to Loma Linda University med. school to "study the water".  having already witnessed first-hand another clinical trial with falsified results, conducted by LLU med school, somehow i don't trust their conclusion - that it's safe to drink the water with the rocket fuel.

so, i drink spring water.  lots of it.

[sirbadman]

Abdul,

I did not  write this :

sirbadman wrote:"But the sale of still bottled water is a fantastic con by the beverage industry — convincing people to spend A$3.50 [£1.70] to buy essentially the water that comes out of a tap."

That is from the news report.

I drink distilled water which is free of fluoride and all the other crap. Distillation and Reverse Osmosis is the way to go as far as getting rid of fluoride in your tap water.

Spring water is tap water that is maybe run through a filter or two. All fresh water comes from a spring at some stage.

[LordLindsey]

I only drink reverse osmosis-cycled water, but that is NOT the point.  For ANY government to ban bottled water, that is setting a trend for something that can not be good.  The article, which I had ORIGINALLY posted to bring discussion about the REAL motives--NOT "climate change"--said that bottled water should be a "distant second" to the use of TAP WATER!  Look, people are so dumbed-down at this point that they are not seeing that for a whole community to BAN bottled water, and for a STATE TO CONTEMPLATE IT, is deeply troubling at the very least because their choices are being corralled into a very narrow set of choices...or none at all.

I don't drink bottled water, but across the world, bottled water is a NECESSITY.  When a government tells you that TAP WATER is safe, but BOTTLED WATER IS NOT, this is NOT about "climate change;"  it is about something much more insidious because anything is possible when you are dealing with the water supply, and this is what is bothering me more than anything else about the BANNING OF BOTTLED WATER--ANYWHERE.

LINDSEY

NB:  For those of you who have never been to a REAL third-world nation, you can see just how much you can trust the "government-inspected" tap water.  Having also been in New Orleans and Orlando, I can say that that is among the very worst water that you can find ANYWHERE in America via the tap water supply; even if you "filter" it, that doesn't do anywhere NEAR the job that is required when dealing with fluoride and other micro-contaminants, so here again is a huge problem for me because there is always bottled water available that is either DISTILLED or processed with reverse osmosis.

[Free Truth]

I wonder about the quality of the water coming out of the taps here in Canada... I'm sure it's better than the USI, and even better outside the big cities.

And yeah, the water supply is definitely a great way for them to knock a lot of us off...

This "climate change" and green BS is getting so tedious to continuously hear...