Bottled Water Follow-Up
I saw over on AutoblogGreen that the city of Ann Arbor is now banning the sale of bottled water at city events. Based on our previous coverage of this topic, I’d say that this is a good thing. Whether it’s the government’s place to tell people what they can buy is certainly debatable though. I’d lean towards heavily taxing bottled water at city events and providing reusable bottles and tap water (which they are doing now) as a much less expensive alternative. In any event, Ann Arbor is protecting its citizens from an expensive, unhealthy and environmentally damaging product. 
July 17th, 2007 at 10:00 am
Plus, bottled water may not be any cleaner than tap water. Not to mention the plastic that leeches into the water from the bottle!
http://lighterfootstep.com/5-reasons-not-to-drink-bottled-water.html
Check out your tap water quality here:
http://www.ewg.org/tapwater/yourwater/
August 2nd, 2007 at 3:19 pm
I assume they will still be selling expensive, unhealthy, bottled Coke, Pepsi, etc.
Bottled water is still a much better choice than any of those. I avoid drinking tap water because of the chemicals and fluoride that is added to it. Fluoride is toxic and over time it accumulates in the body. There is a growing problem with high fluoride levels in our food and drinks. You can learn more about it at sites like http://www.fluoridealert.org or just Google “fluoride”
While some bottled waters are just tap water, many are not.