Ontario Seeks To Put A Cap On Water Bottle Industry With Two-Year Ban
by The Daily Eye Team October 19 2016, 2:32 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 25 secsThe Ontario government has proposed a two-year moratorium on the creation or expansion of bottled water operations fed by groundwater in the Canadian province, in a bid to strike a balance between a burgeoning bottled water industry, a growing population and the effects of climate change.
The province vowed to take action earlier this year after a severe drought prompted questions over regulations that allowed bottled water to draw millions of litres a day of water from the province.