Bottled water

From here.

Australian town in 'world-first' bottled water ban

Hundreds of people marched through the picturesque rural town of Bundanoon to mark the first day of its bottled water ban by unveiling a series of new public drinking fountains, said campaign spokesman John Dee.

Shopkeepers ceremoniously removed the last bottles of water from their shelves and replaced them with reusable bottles that can be filled from fountains inside the town's shops or at water stations in the street.

This piece of news interests me. In Malaysia, I don't think that many people are aware of the impacts of bottled water (or rather, the plastic bottles) to the environment. Since it is probably ‘difficult’ for us to install drinking fountains all around, I think it is a good idea to try and strike a balance, to start with. Let’s try to use reusable bottle as much as we can, but let the bottled water still be available in shops, for ‘just-in-cases’ (since there wouldn't be ample of drinking fountains). Every little helps. I’ve also read somewhere that drinking too much bottled (mineral) water and too little (boiled/filtered) tap water is not good for our teeth because the former lacks fluoride, which is ample in the latter. Hmm.. I’d better check this fact before publishing it. *go google* Ok here it is, some reference.