May 5th, 2010 
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Concord, Mass., home of juice company Welch’s, has banned the sale of bottled water starting in 2011. An effort to save the so-called “environment,” or a bow to pressure from the powerful grape-juice lobby? We report—you decide. [Fox] More »
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@milominderbinder: I think they should just put a desposit on the bottles to encourage recycling. It’s even better if you can just fill a personal bottle but sometimes you need a supply of bottled water: camping, long car trips, when the plumbing breaks, family picnic, zombie apocalypse, etc.
Alessar
GREAT timing, Concord.
#aquapocalypse
eatsshootsleaves
@milominderbinder: It’s unlikely to work. I think this particular community tried banning things known to be produced under child labor and none other than the WTO stepped in and threatened the US with Consequences. Commerce must be protected, no matter the costs. Such is the world in which we live.
John Thompson in: Are You There God? It’s Me, Danzig
@NoodlePress: Coke and Pepsi are okay, I guess.
Mike Jahn
I really like how the pictured woman’s breasts are small, and yet her top seems even smaller, but in a nice way. It looks really good. You guys just keep banning everything except this woman and her clothing proportions.
jacobestes
One must then disguise their water by pouring it into rum bottles.
Mike Jahn
@milominderbinder: Good point. We need Lawyer in Residence to answer this. Congress probably could ban it since they have oversight over interstate commerce. But then again states/counties regulate liquor sales in various ways. Who knows.
NoodlePress
Gawker, I love you but please stop linking to Fox News.
avocadobravado
Ha. Concord is an incredibly rich suburb of Boston. All those kids already have those fancy, non-Nalgene (that shit was poisonous!) metal water bottles anyway. The only people that suffer under this are vaguely disinterested tourists looking for boring colonial history.
And the ghost of Louisa May Alcott, obviously. She loves bottled water.
Richard Lawson
Are they allowed to do this? I’m not the biggest fan of bottled water but still, it seems ironic to ban the sale of bottled water and not, oh say …carcinogen laden cigarettes etc. etc. etc.
milominderbinder