Bottled Water Scourge Countered by Manly Council’s Free Filtered Water

Manly Council Bubble Project photoPhoto by Peter Morris, from The Age

Australia’s Manly Council is striving to wean its residents and tourist visitors off bottled water. After Bondi Beach, Manly is possibly Australia’s most well known beach suburb and thus attracts a plethora of visitors who often cross Sydney Harbour by ferry to get there. However being such a drawcard has its downsides, like the sheer volume of single-use, bottled water containers.

So the local municipal council have installed six free filtered-water fountains to “combat climate change an...


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