Bottled Water Outlawed In The Outback

Looks like the wonderfully named Australian town of Bundanoon, in New South Wales, might be the first community in the world to actually ban the sale of environmentally damaging mineral water.

According to the BBC, 350+ residents turned up at the town hall public meeting to vote. Only 2 people voted against the ban, and one of those was a representative from the bottled water industry ;-)

Visitors will be invited to re-fill reusable bottles with a "Bundy on Tap" label from fountains in the high street.

We blogged before about the Belgian town of Ghent banning meat, now Bundanoon - bit by bit the world is doing the Green Thing.

I'm old enough to remember when no-one I knew had an email address, today life without access to online information is pretty unimaginable for at least 1 billion people. That happened incredibly fast really - in the space of about a decade from, say, 1995 to 2005. I think/believe/hope that sustainable attitudes, behaviours and lifestyles will spread just as quickly, if not faster.

[Spotted on BBC News via Neil Gibb]

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