BOTTLED WATER STILL A MAJOR ISSUE

Last Saturday's Waterloo Region Record carried the following story titled "Assertive action needed to protect our water". The author is Mike Nagy, Chair of the Wellington Water Watchers over in Guelph. Mr. Nagy believes that the two year moratorium on new groundwater removal permits will not be adequate in the long run. He is suggesting that Premier Kathleen Wynne should say no to existing applications to take additional water in Wellington County as well as commit tom phasing out water bottling permits within ten years.

Mr. Nagy also points out that water unlike say the sun for solar energy or geothermal energy in the ground is not a renewable resource. There is a finite amount which can be converted back and forth from moisture in the air (clouds etc.) to surface and groundwater but it can not be increased. With populations constantly rising and water needed for life we will approach the point not just in some areas of the world but throughout, where there simply isn't enough water to sustain all life on the planet. Therefore wasteful practices such as water bottling need to be ended.