The Australian Beverages Council has declined to reveal how much groundwater is getting extracted by bottled water manufacturers in the Perth Hills.There are growing calls from more transparency about how much water is being taken.
By late December, however, he noticed the tank was not full every morning and called a technician to check on the pump."Whatever water is in there is going to be sucked out within a couple of minutes and then it's just going to have to wait to replenish itself. "In particular, I want to address community concerns around whether there is any impact on water users nearby.
An Asahi spokesperson said of its Bedfordale operations that "the review we commissioned last year found the removal of water is done sustainably and not expected to have a measurable impact on surrounding groundwater users". "And we think, from the bottled water industry, that those standards are far in excess of what any other users of the groundwater would have in place."He said the data would be provided to the state government but said making it public would be up to individual companies.