Water, water everywhere -- just not in plastic bottles, says a town in the US state of Massachusetts.
The ban is intended to encourage use of tap water and curb the worldwide problem of plastic pollution.
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It only applies to "non-sparkling, unflavored drinking water." Coke or other soft drinks are exempt.
Jean Hill, an 84-year-old activist, thought up the ban, arguing that bottles fill garbage dumps, while consumers are lured into drinking water they could obtain for a tiny fraction of the cost at their own sink.
"The bottled water companies are draining our aquifers and selling it back to us. I'm going to work until I drop on this," Hill told The New York Times in 2010.
First time offenders get a warning. Anyone caught selling the banned bottles a second time will be fined $25, and $50 thereafter.
