Group shines light on water purchases

By ConnPolitics.tv Staff on Dec 9, 2009 | In News | 5 feedbacks »

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) – The state of Vermont spent nearly $206,000 on bottled water for the Statehouse and other state offices last year, and now a consumer group is urging officials in Vermont and three other states to think outside the bottle.

The Boston-based group Corporate Accountability International says Pennsylvania state government spent nearly $670,000, Connecticut more than $500,000 and Massachusetts nearly $500,000 on bottled water last year.

The group says groundwater is being privatized by bottlers and that the bottles are big parts of waste streams around the country.

Peter Baker, CEO of Crystal Rock Bottled Water Co. in Watertown, Conn., says most of what the states use in their offices are returnable bottles that are reused and recycled, not thrown away.

Comment from: GLENNA MACDONALD [Visitor] Email
This is where there ought to be some kind of law,moral,I wouldn`t send someone to jail.
It is like being on the farm.you feed the animals,and their waste goes in different places.
Horse and cow for the garden,but the hog waste is too strong and will practally kill the plants.
Chicken waste too is good for something.
To be gathersed an thrown in the compost.
~Peace Glenna~
12/09/09 @ 14:52
Comment from: Hosed By The System [Visitor] Email
Because we live in this pathetic "over valued" society of ours..UNLESS the water supply the statehouses get their water from is contaminted...water coolers are ALL that should be supplied...if individuals need their "designer" water...bring it from friggin home.........

$500,000 a year or more just for drinking water ?????
12/09/09 @ 16:55
Comment from: Concerned State Employee [Visitor]
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Purchasing bottled water for staff at the department where I work was banned as far back at 1998. I was able to find a contract on the DAS website that includes purchasing bottled water but it does not specify any one using agency. I am guessing the Legislative Office Building and the Governor's office are probably the only two places where such wasteful expenditures are still allowed.
12/09/09 @ 18:35
Comment from: LA [Visitor] Email
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It's about time we stopped spending on bottled water altogether. Our tap water could use the extra money!
12/09/09 @ 21:59
Comment from: Get Real [Visitor] Email
I stopped drinking tap water years ago and I am healthier... but I bring it from home.... our overpaid state officials can do the same.
12/10/09 @ 14:09

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