Ontario is increasing its charge for water-taking permits for bottled water companies. The Ontario government has made it official by announcing fees for bottlers of water will jump from $3.71 for a million litres of groundwater taken to $503.71 per million litres, later this summer. Premier Kathleen Wynne’s government wants to discourage use of bottled water, which creates around 180 times more greenhouse gas emissions than tap water due to the use of plastic bottles and the fuel used to ship it to market. Article Continued Below“I really think we need to look at the culture around bottled water. “Do all of us need to be using bottled water?

Source: thestar June 08, 2017 18:45 UTC