The University of Vermont will stop sales of bottled water on campus within a year, joining a small but growing number of institutions that have already done so. Vermont administrators said the drive to stop bottled-water sales was led by students. The university has set up bottle-filling stations around campus and will choose which beverages to sell “through their own national contracts and local connections, allowing for greater flexibility in addressing environmental and social values in relation to the beverages supplied.” Read more »
