Blog entries tagged environment

Another Bottled Water Video

EasyWater — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:45:12 +0100

Here is another video highlighting the problems with the bottled water industry. The big example they give is about Fiji water selling in Cleveland however exactly the same principle applies to Ballarat water being sold in Melbourne - which is exactly what most of the bottled water cooler companies in Melbourne do!

9 reasons to get rid of that bottled water cooler

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 05:14:21 +0100

1. You have to store spare full bottles.

2. Then comes the empty bottles to store!

3. If the deliveries are late/forgotten or you drink a bit more then you can run out of water.

4. A bottled water cooler is an open system - meaning that every time you change a bottle you introduce more bacteria to the system - did the last guy that changed the bottle wash his hands after being at the toilet then touched the neck of the new bottle?

5. Lifting and changing bottles is hazRead More...

Banning Bottled Water

EasyWater — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 08:24:25 +0100

Here are some good links to recent articles on banning bottled water and in particular response to the Bundanoon ban.

A small Australian town makes waves in the New York Times.

A BBC World Service interview with Jan Bender, the owner and chairman of Iskilde bottled water company in Denmark and Jeanette Longfield, the coordinator of Sustain, an organisation which has campaigned against bottled water in the UK, where they discusss the Bundanoon situation and if it's relevantRead More...