Gothamist: Park Slope Co-op Considers Bottled Water Ban

brooklynbee

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:39:46 -0500

I drink tap water at work now, and some people actually chastise me about it! "Ohhh no, don't drink TAP WATER!! I'll get you a bottle of spring water!"

glennQNYC

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:17:44 -0500

How long until they ban air conditioning, plasma TV sets, pleasure travel, and demand lights off at 10:00? This is a climate emergency! :rolleyes:

Karen

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:19:53 -0500

Bottled water is so overpriced, you're foolish to buy it, no matter if its a generic store brand, or some designer brand. Wouldn't matter if I were filthy rich, I'd still refuse to pay $2 and up for a small bottle of water, on principal. Get yourself a bottle, buy a filter for your tap, and fill it at home.

cmoney

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:03:58 -0500

I'm not switching back to tap until I can get adderall-infused tap.

matty

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:51:26 -0500

why do rich trust funders pretend to shun money?

Goomba

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:47:44 -0500

These hippies are a bunch of jibones! You can make good money selling the stuff.

rdc

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:27:06 -0500

Amusing that this comes right on the heels of the report of municipal water containing traces of all sorts of drugs. The nice thing about buying water from a company is that you'll likely have better luck suing them if their water contains contaminants.

GOP

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:12:00 -0500

Bottled water is unethical!

nik13

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:45:48 -0500

People have no idea how much energy is wasted to produce a 4oz bottle of Poland Spring. My co-worker is sending bottled water to her offspring. Poor thing doesn't want to drink tap water & cannot carry heavy stuff to a 3rd floor walk-up. I really feel her pain.

JRod5417

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:31:26 -0500

Actually, San Francisco beat Park Slope to the punch by banning bottled water from city offices last year.

meowster

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:17:58 -0500

for once a sensible idea comes out of park slope.

Politburo

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:17:58 -0500

Should this really be called a ban? When a store chooses not to sell a product, is that a ban? Not really. Just because this store is run by its members rather than a corporate board doesn't really change anything. "But some recent tests conducted on the city’s water supply may give them pause.." Yeah, maybe, but you're ignoring the fact that a lot of bottled water is simply tap water in a bottle, and that bottled water is not guaranteed to be pure. See your own NRDC link, Chapter 3.

nobody

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:11:44 -0500

.. or smartness.

EastRiver

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:11:37 -0500

Good. All one needs to do is look at the trash rooms of most New York apartment buildings to see how hypocritical the city is.

HughGass

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:06:13 -0500

the smugness of park slopers never ceases to amaze me.