http://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/2009/world/london-on-tap-reducing-bottled-water-consumption/ Reporting the Global Water Crisis Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:22:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/2009/world/london-on-tap-reducing-bottled-water-consumption/comment-page-1/#comment-6758 Damian Hockney Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:09:10 +0000 http://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/?p=7218#comment-6758 A drop in the ocean, as they say and of course we all know what will happen. The machines will break down, others will be vandalised, you will hear endless strings of stories about them taking your cash and giving nothing in return. There will then be a health scare as one person claims that they have been poisoned by something in the machines, and then they will be taken out of service, but left lying around for years...of course, huge sums of taxpayers' cash will have been wasted (again) on bits of useless metal cluttering up the environment. And finally at great cost someone will come and dismantle them and pretend to us that they are being 'recycled'. No-one has the power to ban bottled water in the City anyway and that's not what either Thames Water, the Mayor or Government are saying. A drop in the ocean, as they say and of course we all know what will happen. The machines will break down, others will be vandalised, you will hear endless strings of stories about them taking your cash and giving nothing in return. There will then be a health scare as one person claims that they have been poisoned by something in the machines, and then they will be taken out of service, but left lying around for years…of course, huge sums of taxpayers’ cash will have been wasted (again) on bits of useless metal cluttering up the environment. And finally at great cost someone will come and dismantle them and pretend to us that they are being ‘recycled’. No-one has the power to ban bottled water in the City anyway and that’s not what either Thames Water, the Mayor or Government are saying.

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