COMMUNITY GROUNDWATER STUDY GROUP
LINKS
News Articles about Montpelier Springs Controversy
- Seven Days
- Groundwater Rising -- Who’s bottling Vermont’s H2O — and at what price?
By Mike Ives [02.27.08]- Groundwater Moratorium Unearths Legal Uncertainties
By Mike Ives [03.12.08]- Montpelier Environmentalists Question Water-Bottling Scheme
By Mike Ives [06.06.07]- New York Times
- Bottling Plan Pushes Groundwater to Center Stage in Vermont
By Felicity Barringer [08.20.08]- Barre-Montpelier Times-Argus • Rutland Herald
- Water Debate Heated
By Patrick Joy [05.27.07]
- Water: Public Resource or Private Cache? bill would make state's aquifers a public trust.
by Louis Porter [02.24.08]
- Water the Big Issue in East Montpelier Town Meeting
by Daphne Larkin [03.05.08]- The Montpelier Bridge (link)
- Proposal to Bottle Local Water Stirs Controversy
by Miriam Hansen [06.15.07]- Who Owns the Water?
by John Walters [01.24.08]- (PDF) Not Your Normal Carpetbagger
by John Waters [04.04.08- (PDF) Water Issue May come to Boiling Point at Town Meeting
by John Walters [02.21.08]
- Who Decides What should Happen in a Community?
by Miriam Hansen [---]
- Seller Beware
by Miriam Hansen [04.17.08]
What have we missed? Tell us.
Sites of Interest
Vermonters for a Clean Environment has a very good list of water story links from around the state http://www.vtce.org/drinkingwater.html
- Vermont Natural Resources Council
- Vermonters for a Clean Environment
- saveourgroundwater.org A New Hampshire seacoast-area citizens action organization dedicated to protecting water in the public trust
- thinkoutsidethebottle.org A campaign to choose tap over bottled water and support strong public water systems