Bottled Water Matters For Concord

Bottled Water Matters For Concord Bottled Water for Concord CHOICE MATTERS
• There’s no one way to drink water. Don’t let someone take that choice away from you.

WATER MATTERS
• Water is good for you, and one of the smartest things to drink.
• Water has the lightest environmental footprint – whether tapped, filtered or bottled – of any drink. *
• Turning away from bottled water will not improve water conservation practices, will not ensure adequate funding for public drinking water systems, and will not increase recycling rates. HEALTH MATTERS
• The Conc

ord Board of Health has said that they “… cannot endorse the proposed bylaw to prohibit the sale of drinking water in PET bottles of 1 liter or less in the Town of Concord because it lacks the core elements of a local public health initiative… From a public health perspective drinking water (regardless of type of bottle it is served in) is preferred over soda or sugary fruit juices.”
• Taking away bottled water will not automatically drive people to the tap. A recent peer-reviewed study showed 2/3 of people will actually choose less healthful options that use more plastic and more water to make. *

SAFETY MATTERS
• Concord is fortunate to have an abundant supply of high quality tap water, but that’s not always the case.
• Less than two days after the Town of Concord first try to ban bottled water in 2010, a major water main break in Boston left more than 2 million people without clean, safe drinking water. Bottled water companies rushed more than 1 million bottles of water to hospitals, schools, nursing homes and communities throughout Boston.
• Outlawing bottled water will prohibit a ready supply of clean, safe drinking water from being available for all those times when people need or want it. ENVIRONMENT MATTERS
• Bottled water has the lightest environmental footprint of all packaged beverages—one that can be reduced 25% by simply recycling the bottle.*
• Every time people choose bottled water instead of a packaged beverage such as soda or juice, they lighten the environmental impact of their beverage consumption.*
• Education and recycling initiatives—not bans—help boost recycling rates for all beverages. We choose how depending on the circumstances—where we are, what we’re doing, what we’re eating, what tastes best to us.
• Personal choice is the ultimate local control, and you have the right not to choose to drink water in a bottle. YOUR VOTE MATTERS
• The Town of Concord will vote on Article 38 to ban of the sale of single-serve bottled water anywhere within the town during the Town Meeting that begins April 25th.
• Banning bottled water will not only impact the income of 130 Concord food establishments permitted to sell beverages, but also the jobs of 2,560 Massachusetts men and women who produce and deliver bottle water.

04/10/2013

Great news! The date for the vote on Article 30, which seeks to repeal the ban on bottled water, has been set for Wednesday, April 24 at 7:30 p.m. Please come vote "yes" to Article 30 and help Concord get rid of this unwanted ban!

A Vine post of Bostonians getting ready for the storm...bet they're glad they can buy bottled water in Boston! http://vi...
02/08/2013

A Vine post of Bostonians getting ready for the storm...bet they're glad they can buy bottled water in Boston! http://vine.co/v/bnFzEUtVDqg

Blizzard warning issued for Boston metro area, including Concord. Be sure to stock up on bottled water for the possible...
02/07/2013

Blizzard warning issued for Boston metro area, including Concord. Be sure to stock up on bottled water for the possible 2 feet of snow and gusting winds expected. Unfortunately you will have to leave Concord if you want to buy that in cases...

http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Concord&state=MA&site=BOX&lat=42.45&lon=-71.35

A major winter storm is expected to impact the Northeast and New England Friday into Saturday. As much as one to two feet of snow is forecast from the New York City metro area to Maine, with localized heavier amounts possible. This, in addition to wind gusts as high as 60-75 mph will create signific...

"Come on, people, please turn your righteousness in the right direction! Banning water might feel like a win in the shor...
01/23/2013

"Come on, people, please turn your righteousness in the right direction! Banning water might feel like a win in the short term, but it's a major loss in the long term. And the biggest loss is the misdirection of energy it creates in very intelligent people who could otherwise be solving real problems."

- Maria Rodale, CEO and Chairman of Rodale, Inc. and book author (who published Inconvenient Truth)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maria-rodale/the-bizarre-insanity-of-b_b_2533354.html

The Bizarre Insanity of Banning Bottled Water - The Huffington Post

01/03/2013

With the bottled water ban hitting this past Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013, we will be curious to see the negative impacts on local Concord businesses and residents.

http://bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/01/03/too-soon-tell-whether-concord-bottled-water-ban-may-drive-residents-shop-neighboring-towns/rcpToXk9B0KjJMbzxxQjhP/story.html

For some convenience store owners in neighboring communities, it is much too soon to tell whether the bottled water ban in Concord has translated into increased sales. Losing local dollars to shops in other communities was among the concerns expressed by opponents of the ban approved by voters last ...

"Woe to the thirsty of Concord, Mass. Under a bylaw born of convoluted reasoning, a person who heads into a store in tha...
09/14/2012

"Woe to the thirsty of Concord, Mass. Under a bylaw born of convoluted reasoning, a person who heads into a store in that town for some hydration will be able to buy a plastic bottle of soda, but not a similar bottle of what dietitians say should be the drink of choice: water." - LA Times Editorial Board

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-plastic-bottles-ban-concord-20120913,0,6604018.story

Woe to the thirsty of Concord , Mass. Under a bylaw born of convoluted reasoning, a person who heads into a store in that town for some hydration will be able to buy a plastic bottle of soda, but not a similar bottle of what dietitians say should be the drink of choice: water.

09/10/2012

http://bostonherald.com/news/opinion/editorials/view.bg?articleid=1061159169

Concord residents are out of luck if they want to buy a bottle of water to go with their meatball sub. But now they may have the added insult of seeing their tax dollars wasted to defend a lawsuit over the ridiculous town bylaw that bans the sale of bottled water in plastic containers smaller than o...

“We are disappointed in the decision by the state Attorney General to approve the amendments to the by-laws of the Town ...
09/06/2012

“We are disappointed in the decision by the state Attorney General to approve the amendments to the by-laws of the Town of Concord, Massachusetts, that ban the sale of bottled water in single-serve PET bottles within the town, and we are exploring all available options to continue to oppose the by-law.”

“People need to drink more water. The consumption of water, whether from the bottle or the tap, is a good thing and supports people’s pursuit of a healthy lifestyle. Any actions that discourage people from drinking bottled water are not in the public interest." - IBWA

http://www.bottledwater.org/ibwa-statement-regarding-massachusetts-attorney-general-upholding-town-concord%E2%80%99s-ban-sale-bottled

Alexandria, VA – The International Bottled Water Association (IBWA) today issued the following statement regarding today’s decision by Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley to support banning bottled water sales in Concord.

05/02/2012

Folks in Dover-Sherborn are asking whether consumers should have the choice to buy water. Check out the poll and vote “no” in favor of your freedom of choice.

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