Official Website of 'Bundy On Tap'
The Australian town of Bundanoon, in the NSW Southern
Highlands, 150 km south west of Sydney, has decided of its own
volition to neither sell, nor giveaway, bottled still water, within the
town precinct.
A meeting of about 20 businesses initially agreed to the initiative.
This was followed by community meeting in early July 2009, where
the packed town hall of 356 residents voted overwhelmingly to
support the initiative.When bottled water alternatives were officially
launched in late September 2009, it is believed Bundanoon became
Australia's First Bottled Water Free Town. (And possibly the
world's first.)
This small town, community initiative has generated unprecedented
national and international media coverage and worldwide support.
As part of the initiative, Bundanoon expanded drinking water
facilities in the town. Indeed access to drinking water in Bundanoon
is now greater than before ‘Bundy On Tap’ began.
Businesses have available for sale reusable drink bottles and chilled
filtered tap water, whilst both free filtered water stations, and water
fountains or 'bubblers,' provide for the general public, and for local
primary school children.