[SustainableTompkins] Changing perceptions of bottled water

[Margaret McCasland]

I appreciated the linnk to the story, but agree with Maura that it 
was only half a story.

Another gap was the public health role water fountains used to play. 
I think all public buildings in NYS are still required to provide 
water fountains.

I noticed that most rest areas in Massachusetts stopped having water 
fountains when they added vending machines for bottled water.  The 
New York Thruway doesn't have many rest areas where I travel, so I 
haven't noticed the same problem there, but they are becoming scarcer 
in general.

We wouldn't need to be lugging our own water everywhere if there were 
still loads of working water fountains!

Margaret


>  >RE: But the article never even mentions the issue of water privatization;
>>it's only about plastic usage and transportation/oil costs. I'd call it
>>half a story.
>>Maura
>
>Thanks, yes! That's a good example of compartmentalized, nonsystemic
>thinking, that also has a class-based bias- Focusing just on the
>environmental impacts and not on who bears the social and economic
>costs
>Elan
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>>Elan Shapiro wrote:
>>>   Noteworthy for being lead article in Sunday Styles section of NY
>>>   Times
>>>   http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/12/fashion/12water.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
>>> 
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