Mayor Franklin to weigh on bottled water ban?
June 19, 2008 at 12:06 pm by Thomas Wheatley in NewsMayor Shirley Franklin has the opportunity this weekend to join the leaders of San Francisco, Chicago, New York City and other cities to encourage a phase-out of bottled water from government use.
A resolution encouraging municipalities to promote its municipal water supply and avoid the overpriced alternative to the tap will be placed before Franklin on Saturday at the U.S. Conference of Mayors annual meeting in Miami. A spokesperson for Franklin says the mayor’s been lobbied heavily on the issue and has yet to make a decision if she will sign the resolution or not.
Corporate Accountability International, a big-business watchdog group, points to the large amounts of waste generated each year by plastic water bottles, the safety of municipal-water systems, and the impact bottled-water manufacturers have on water supplies as why such a resolution would be a good move.
To read the resolution, click here. Click here to read a CL piece about a Dasani plant in Marietta that bottles purified municipal water during a drought.
(Photo by Joeff Davis; illustration by John Yardley)
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