Bottled water gives wrong message

That children at Ettalong Beach Public School are encouraged to drink milk or water is very good indeed.

That they are encouraged to buy bottled water is very bad indeed.

All school children should have access to clean drinking water by well designed bubblers.

The fashion for bottled water is a disaster.

Some bottled water is imported from other countries, some is pumped from aquifers depleting ground water and reducing water for farming.

Millions of plastic bottles end up in landfill.

The manufacture of plastics uses fossil fuels and more water and emits toxins and greenhouse gasses.

Millions of dollars are spent on buying bottled water, mostly totally unnecessarily.

Hopefully the school and Central Coast Health will change this policy which gives children a totally wrong message.

Email, 27 May 2011 Ann Marshall, Holgate