Short history lesson here I don’t have much space to account for years of stupidity but let’s see if I can give it ago.

I have never heard so much “crap and dribble in my life”. Sometimes I wonder what idiots are living here in Australia with the stupid garbage that some people latch onto without thought of an alternative plan in place. When I was growing up we had water tanks then some idiot with a half baked notion said “LETS GET RID OF WATER TANKS THEY ARE BAD FOR YOUR HEALTH”. That’s right someone did some research, yes research don’t get me started on that!

I said at the time as a young girl of 16 years to my mother, “Who are these idiots telling us to get rid of the water tank we are going to need this water and what about our gardens”. We also used to use our washing water to feed our lawns, I think they now call this grey water. Does this sound familiar to anyone out there in Australia. Well we where told “DON’T NEED TO WORRY ABOUT THAT BECAUSE WE HAVE PLENTY OF WATER”. The water board is taking care of that and you will have all the water you need it is called progress.

When I grew up playing netball and soccer it was common place to get a drink of water out of the bubbler or the tap. So when I took my children to netball or soccer the bubbler was gone but the tap was the only thing left. Then I noticed that the water bubblers and the taps in parks started to disappear or the taps were removed we were told that people don’t need them they can bring their own water.

Oh that was until the yuppie dog walker came along and started to complain in the last 8 to 10 years that they did not have taps for their precious dogs to drink from, Speers Point Park, Lake Macquarie has them strategically place through out the park for our precious dog to drink from and I think about two bubblers for the human population. So what do we see now humans and dogs drinking from the same taps if their bottle water runs out or they don’t have a bottle of water.

So why do we have bottle water in plastic in Australian because you cannot get a glass of water if you are just out doing your shopping IF YOU START TO FEEL DEHYDRATED YOU HAVE TO HAVE WATER. So bright sparks where do you plan the population to get water from in this very I don’t give a damn about you world that you have created because the shop keepers, café owners and restaurants are going to tell you to take a hike.

So having said all that can someone tell me what with all the obesity, diabetes, heart disease etc in our population from young to old that we have not targeted the carbonated drink industry that I think could be miles ahead in the pollution debate. Which reminds me I don’t think besides myself have I every see anyone reuse their carbonated plastic drink bottle over and over again like we do the plastic water bottle?

In the environmentally friendly days we used to have glass bottles and recycled them as kids and we where paid 5 cents to hand them back in, you know maybe we should do this again! Nothing like old is new to help the environment, but then again we cannot trust the population to not glass themselves.

Nothing like the good old days when you could get a glass of water, go for a walk in the park and drink out of a bubbler, and all the waste you create was put into one tiny garbage bin each week and we recycled everything.

You could start here: http://earth911.com/blog/2008/06/02/disposable-water-bottle-alternatives/

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