Huw Kingston Nominated for Wingecarribee Shire Citizen of the Year

The Southern Highland News summarised Huw's nomination as:

"Huw Kingston actively promotes the Highlands as a destination for cycling. He organises the annual Highland Fling mountain bike event, attracting thousands of competitors and spectators to the southern villages.

Mr Kingston instigated the “Bottle-free Bundanoon” campaign, encouraging visitors and residents of Bundanoon to drink tap water instead of bottled water."

However, at an Australia Day ceremony held at Berrima, it was announced that Gordon Lewis was to be named Wingecarribee Shire Citizen of the Year. Congratulations Gordon.

Sundance Film Festival Offers Bottled Water Alternative

Robert Redford's Sundance Film Festival, 21 -31 January 2010, is again teaming up with Brita Filters and Nalgene water bottles in the FilterForGood campaign to reduce bottled water use and waste at the festival.

A media release for the project quotes Sarah Pearce, Director of Festival Operations, "The Sundance Film Festival is committed to reducing our carbon footprint, and reducing bottled water is one of the simplest ways to do that."

When the campaign was run in 2009 festival attendees could purchase FilterForGood reusable Nalgene bottles for $10 USD, which they could then fill at Brita Hydration Stations. This reduced the need for 50,000 bottles of water that Sundance had distributed at previous Film Festivals.

British Pubs to Provide Free Tap Water to Patrons

The news service Reuters reports, that new legislation being introduced in the United Kingdom, aimed at curbing a culture of heavy drinking, requires that, "publicans will have to ensure free tap water is made available to revelers."

New Refillable Bottle Info at Bundy On Tap

Many friends and supporters on the Bundy On Tap campaign have asked for detailed information about the two refillable water bottles that BOT selected. In order to better answer those questions we've put up a new Bottles page up on the website.

Hopefully we've covered most of the queries people had about our bottles.

London Follows Bundanoon's Lead

The Guardian Newspaper reports that London is looking to follow the Bundy On Tap model and install water fountains and refill stations in the British capital.

Thames Water will install refill stations (capable of refilling a 500ml bottle for 20p) in two high traffic locations that are frequented by about 4.4 million people annually.

If successful the refill units will appear at public transport stations across London in time for the 2012 Olympics.

The article also notes that Hyde Park also scored its first drinking fountain in 30 years.

Momentum is gathering.

Congrats Jon Dee, NSW Australian of the Year

Jon Dee, co-founder of environmental advocacy groups Planet Ark, and more recently Do Something! was in mid November 2009 named NSW Australian of the Year.

Bundy on Tap publicly, and belatedly, congratulates Jon on this recognition of his achievements, over almost twenty years of active campaigning for a better world.

Jon Dee, through Do Something's Bottled Water Alliance project, worked very closely the Bundy On Tap committee to help bring our project to realisation. His industry contacts and media savvy were a significant part of the success of Bundy on Tap. Thank You, Jon.

And all the best on chances of now being named Australian of Year, on Australia Day, 26 January 2010.

BundyOnTap Blogs

Well, here we are. On the blogsphere.

The Bundy On Tap website will remain our central repository of information about Bundanoon, Australia's First Bottled Water Free Town, but we will use this blog to add news as it comes to hand.

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