Town Prepares to Celebrate Going Bottled Water Free

Saturday, 26 September 2009 is a big day for a little town. Bundanoon, 1.5 hours south west of Sydney, will hold the official launch of its initiative to make the quiet village of about 2,500 people, Australia’s First Bottled Water Free Town.

As we reported in July, the community turned out for a town meeting, voting 355 to 1 in favour of a proposal to support the town’s businesses and events, should they withdraw commercial bottled water from sale. It was such an audacious idea that the Read the full story on TreeHugger