Bottled water faces a battle for its rights

By Jamie Brown
Updated November 21 2018 - 9:04am, first published November 20 2018 - 4:30am
Geoff Bottomley of Prime Flowers has ignited political ill-will towards water "mining" by proposing to bottle drinking water pumped from the basalt aquifer under his farm at Rous, via Alstonville.
Geoff Bottomley of Prime Flowers has ignited political ill-will towards water "mining" by proposing to bottle drinking water pumped from the basalt aquifer under his farm at Rous, via Alstonville.

Concerns about pumping precious groundwater into plastic drinking bottles have taken a political turn on the North Coast with outgoing MP for Lismore calling for an independent investigation into water extraction, and requesting state government cease future licencing of commercial operations which take water off-farm.

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