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January 31, 2006
San Francisco spends millions on bottled water
In truly an embarressment, the city of San Francisco, which owns a pristine reservoir in the Sierra Nevada with a reputation for producing some of the country's best-tasting tap water, has spent more than two million dollars of taxpayers' money in the past 4 1/2 years on bottled water.
The mayor's office in City Hall, the Department of Public Health , the Municipal Railway, and the San Francisco International Airport are all among the public spenders on bottled water, with tap water readily available.
It is really ironic that the Public Utilities Commission, which performed a blind taste test on the street during National Drinking Water Week last May to convince people that tap water from the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park is at least as good as the stuff at the store, even spent funds on bottled water.
Jake McGoldrick, a member of the Board of Supervisors who does not have city-funded bottled water delivered to his City Hall office said, "People have come to assume that even though we have the best water in the entire U.S., they still need bottled water. It's become the chic thing," as reported by the San Francisco Chronicle.
Posted by Stephen Betheil at January 31, 2006 10:34 PM
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