Bottled water no threat to Ontario groundwater supply: industry

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Bottled water no threat to Ontario groundwater supply: industry
Last Updated: Thursday, September 28, 2006 | 1:01 PM ET
CBC News

Representatives of Ontario's bottled water industry say their business is no threat to the health of the province's groundwater supply, and that they are being unfairly singled out by critics of the province's commercial water use policy.

The Canadian Water Bottlers Association says Ministry of Environment statistics show the industry takes less than two-tenths of one per cent of all the water that is extracted from lakes, rivers and underground streams across the province.

"The amount of water that we're using as an industry is equal to the amount 10 golf courses use in a year," said Elizabeth Griswold, head of the Canadian Bottled Water Association.

Griswold argued that Ontario's Liberals drew on incomplete information when they made an election promise to add fees for commercial users of water.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2006/09/28/water-reaxn.html