17 August, 2018

Rural Victorian community fights David vs Goliath battle against bottled water company

A rural Victorian community has started a global campaign to stop water being extracted from its local water table for bottling, in what has been described as a David-and-Goliath battle.
A water tanker leaves the Asahi plant in Albury.
Stanley is an agricultural hamlet in the state's north-east and a prime apple and nut growing district.

Groundwater from the water table beneath Stanley's plateau is being extracted under licence from a local property and transported to Albury where it is bottled for Asahi Beverages.


Read the ABC Rural story by Bronwen O’Shea and Erin Somerville - “Rural Victorian community fights David vs Goliath battle against bottled water company.”

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