MONTPELIER, VT — A Boston-based consumer and environmental group is urging four states — Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Vermont — to end purchases of water in plastic containers, according to an article from the Associated Press.
The group states that these locations can cut hundreds of thousands of dollars from strapped budgets by ending these purchases, stated the article.
Corporate Accountability International initiated the causes in these four states by asking public employees to drink tap water and increase efforts to protect public water supplies, stated the article.
“Public dollars spent to support the private water interests robs the public water system of available dollars, nearly $12 billion in the U.S. in 2007,” said Vermont state Rep. Jim McCullough. “Many of these dollars could instead be spent to be sure tap water is safe.”
According to the article, these four states were targeted because of their location, they have activist members of the group and ample high-quality public water supplies.
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