On a similar theme, a town in New South Wales banned bottled water in 2009. Sadly it doesn't seem to have caught on more widely:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2009-07-08/nsw-town-bans-bottled-water/1346406 Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ https://500px.com/supera1000/galleries > On 06 December 2018 at 09:43 Bob W-PDML <p...@web-options.com> wrote: > > > In a restaurant in France this summer the waiter put a carafe of water like > this one on the table: > https://goo.gl/images/aBJxBj > > Les Eaux Municipales means tap water... > > Except that it's glass, it would be nice to carry one around for refilling > from fountains. > > In Vichy at the source of Celestins you can draw the water free, or go into a > shop and buy some... > https://web-options.com/2018/07/06/vichy-ii/ > > > > On 5 Dec 2018, at 22:04, ann sanfedele > <ann...@nyc.rr.com<mailto:ann...@nyc.rr.com>> wrote: > > back in '81 my thought when I saw the bottle being filled was that it was > Evion's source ;-) I was photographing the > fountain itself - the frame before it on that roll tells me that... never > bothered to blow that one up... I'll go for the gag every time > > ann > > > On 12/5/2018 2:11 PM, Bob W-PDML wrote: > On 5 Dec 2018, at 15:01, Daniel J. Matyola > <danmaty...@gmail.com<mailto:danmaty...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Another interesting PUG, with many great images! > > [...] > Ann's "Bottled" is also excellent and gave me a real chuckle. On my three > trips to Switzerland over the decades, I constantly watched the locals > filling their Perrier bottles with water out of the public fountains. That > water is indeed better than actual Perrier. > Better, of course, to re-use the plastic bottles than to throw them away. > > Those fountains are called Wallace Fountains, after the inheritor of the > Wallace Collection in London. He was a great Francophile and lover of Paris. > After the Franco-Prussian War he designed the fountains, paid for them and had > them installed, among other benevolent works for the ruined city. > > There is one outside The Wallace Collection in Manchester Square, London. It's > a superb gallery, with a good French collection, and always worth visiting. > > > > View here: > > http://pug.komkon.org/ > > > > -- > ann sanfedele photography > https://annsan.smugmug.com > https://www.cafepress.com/annsanstuff > https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/annsan > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net<mailto:PDML@pdml.net> > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
