Wall Street Journal, March 31, 2009

“The ultimate loser is the consumer,” said Matt Caputo, owner of Caputo’s, a specialty-food retailer in Salt Lake City that specializes in Italian and Southern European products. Mr. Caputo, who recently ordered a year’s worth of chocolates and 10 times his usual volume of Italian mineral waters in anticipation of higher prices, said he has collected more than 600 signatures on a petition protesting the tariffs that he plans to send to the White House.

Nestle Waters North America, which imports San Pellegrino, has asked the U.S. Court of International Trade for a preliminary injunction to block the tariff on Italian mineral water.

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Chinta Puxley, Globe & Mail (Canada) March 24, 2009

WINNIPEG — The University of Winnipeg says it is taking a stand against water for profit as well as plastic containers that end up in landfills by becoming the first campus in Canada to ban bottled water sales.

The decision announced yesterday follows a referendum last week in which three-quarters of students who voted said they were in favour of ditching the 38,000 bottles of water sold on the downtown campus each year.

The University of Washington was the first to ban bottled water sales in the United States and Winnipeg students say they are now blazing the same trail in Canada.

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