CANBERRA (Reuters) - An Australian town has banned bottled water, claiming to be the first in the country to revert to the tap for the sake of the environment and prompting the nation's largest state government to stop buying bottled water.
Residents of rural Bundanoon, a picturesque, tourist destination 150 kms (93 miles) southwest of Sydney, voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to rid the town of bottled water to combat the carbon footprint from bottling and transporting it.
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