Aussie Town Bans Bottled Water

(Bundanoon, Australia) Residents voted Saturday night to become the first location in the world to ban bottled water.

The ban became a popular measure after it was announced that a beverage company, Norlex Holdings, planned on sucking water from an aquifer beneath Bundanoon and transporting it 120 miles to Sydney for bottling.

“Norlex wanted to truck millions of litres of water out of the bore here, stick it in bottles and bring it back to sell to us,” said [local business-owner] Mr Kingston. “It became a big issue in this town.”

Understandably, environmental activists are giddy.