Water, Water, Everywhere…

Sweet…

oom! It’s like we’re finally getting back to common sense when it comes to the water that we drink every day.

Instead of buying the bugger, and contributing to the world’s ever-growing plastic tidal wave, Greystones is about to get four refill stations for the town’s truly thrifty and thirsty.

Which is great feckin’ news.

Not sure which model of refill stations we’re getting yet, but, reckon they’ll be pretty close to the Dun Laoghaire example on the left.

Here’s de official spiel…

Greystones Tidy Towns, in partnership with the Greystones Municipal District Office of Wicklow County Council, are excited to announce the first of our new water refill water stations will be installed at the Church Road entrance to the Burnaby Park, adjacent to the new Big Love bicycle parking area on Killincarrick Road.

This will be the first of four water refill stations to be located at strategic points throughout the town as part of the first phase of this joint initiative. Greystones Tidy Towns and Wicklow County Council are working together with a local Greystones business, Identity Promotions, who are the Irish Ambassadors for Join The Pipe. We are starting this venture to try to tackle the issue of plastic pollution by providing free drinking water bottle refill stations for the use and convenience of the public.

Our aim is to reduce the amount of plastic drinking water bottles ending up in our green areas, our rivers and streams, on our beaches and in the sea. On the back of the success of the reusable coffee cup campaign, we intend to work with local businesses to introduce the sale of reusable drinking water bottles and phase out the sale of disposable drinking water bottles in shops around the town.

As well as having an environmental pay off, there is a benefit to the locals’ finances in providing free drinking water, whenever they want it. In addition, the income that Join the Pipe generate from the cost of their refill stations and multi-use bottles is used to set up drinking water projects in developing countries, bringing water to those without, thereby providing global humanitarian benefits.

Nice. First we’ve heard about the Big Love bicycle parking spaces, but then again, these Tidy Town feckers like to keep their cards close to their chest. Well done to all involved. Life in non-plastic would be feckin’ fantastic.