Bottled, bottled water everywhere…

From the San Francisco Chronicle’s Village Green blog:

Admit it. You drink bottled water from time to time. You’ve mostly stopped buying flats of it from Costco or Trader Joe’s. But once in a while you’re on a road trip, and you didn’t bring along your Sigg bottle or some other receptacle you use to feel a bit less guilty about the bijillions of plastic water bottles you’ve consumed from and tossed into the recycling bin. And you’re filling up your car (a hybrid, of course!), and you are hot and thirsty and nothing else — coffee, Slurpee, apple juice — will slake your thirst. And there it is in the refrigerator case: cool and clear and gleaming.

Ok, enough set-up. People — policy makers, environmentalists, consumers — are getting more and more concerned about the ill effects of bottled water. There are the obvious ones: the energy, materials and waste associated with the bottles themselves. But there also is growing concern about the amount of water being poured into those containers (some estimates put it in the billions of gallons).

Enter AB 2275, introduced by Southern California assemblyman Felipe Fuentes. The bill would require water bottlers or private water sources to provide detailed information about the source of the water, whether it’s a public or private agency, an artesian well, lake, river, spring, etc. It would also require the company or source to detail the total volume of water bottled or sold for either wholesale or retail use.

Read more from the Village Green blog by clicking here.

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