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[Donna Walsh]

The Katonah-Lewisboro Sustainability Committee looks forward to building a partnership with you. We have a draft Sustainability Policy for our school district which we hope will be voted on by the Board of Education in the very near future. Because our schools use so much paper, energy, cleaning products, etc. and since approximately 4,000 students travel to our schools each day we have a great challenge ahead of us. It was great to meet with you at the "Climate Change Initiative" program at the Bedford Hills Park tonight. I will keep you posted on when the policy is scheduled on the Board of Ed agenda.

If you could get the word out about the Farmer's Market at JJHS every Saturday from 9-2pm that would be great. It is sponsored by the JJHS Wellness Commitee and the PTO.

Donna Walsh

[Mark Thielking]

I support your efforts to raise awareness around the issue of bottled water and the waste stream that this luxury creates. Your fund raising efforts around reusable SIGG bottles offers the public a great alternative to the polluting and petrochemical centered PET bottle.
For those interested in more information see this recent FastCompany article posted here:
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/117/features-message-in-a-bottle.html
Hope you all are having a great summer!

[William Abranowicz]

Aside from the millions of gallons of gas that woudl be saved by drinking tap water from re-usable bottles, like nalgene or aluminum, the National Resources Defense Council, an environmental advocacy group ran tests on bottled water.

The NRDC analyzed more than 1,000 bottles of water from 103 of the 700 or so brands sold in the US. It found that about one in four of the brands contained (in at least one sample) contaminants at levels above strict health limits. From this, the NRDC concluded "there is no assurance that water from a bottle is any cleaner or safer than water from the tap." A recent major survey of bottled water sold in Canada found results similar to those of the NRDC.

The NRDC also reports another statistic, which is perhaps more surprising and disturbing. According to government and industry estimates, about 25% (and perhaps as high as 40%) of bottled water is simply tap water from some municipal water supply. This water is sometimes treated for contaminants before being bottled, and sometimes not. To hammer this point home, the agency tells of water from a Massachusetts bottling well -- located in a parking lot near a state-designated hazardous-waste site -- that for years provided tainted water for a half dozen brands of bottled water that were advertised as spring water. Fortunately, the well was recently closed. Go to NRDC.org for more info.

[alex brody]

thank you very much for that information. Unfortunately, those statistics are not surprising.