Bottled Watergate Canada: Millions in Public Money Spent on bottle Water

Canada's Inside the Bottle, a Polaris Institute campaign designed to stimulate awareness and action about the bottled water industry, put out a news release today. They claim that since April 2006, the Government of Canada has spent more than $7,296,738 of public money on 131 separate contracts to purchase bottled water.  They say that the same amount of money could have been used to pay for 2,918 indoor or 584 outdoor water fountains, or alternatively to upgrade a water treatment plant in a First Nations Community.  Read more about Bottled Watergate here.