Posted on 06/23/2007 11:24:17 AM PDT by restornu
Don't lose perspective here -- it's a government agency banning its own dubious spending of your money. Not a free-market issue at all.
Good point.
In his executive order, Newsom referred to "Hetch Hetchy water." In fact, I think he might have used "municipal water" once, but that's the main term he used.
New York City also had great water, because it came from the Adirondacks.
Yuo. The concern there, as in many cities, is what gets introduced into to the water when it reaches your building (if the plumbing's old).
So some cities do have really good water. If buying bottled water from elsewhere was just a status thing, he was right to cancel that expense. People can fill their water bottles at the office fountain or cooler, if the water’s good.
I'm amazed no one has yet mentioned filtration systems. A $20 Brita pitcher produces water that is, to my palate, indistinguishable from bottled. For a little more up-front cost (starting at about $200 and up) but a lower cost per gallon, you can get a reverse osmosis system to sit under the sink.
I'm not worried about the health effects of my local water, but I don't like the taste of chlorine -- I know some folks are sensitive, some aren't and some get used to it. But after a trip to a friend's farm, and a week of drinking well water, it bugged me enough to get the filters.
And I take a filter with me to Orlando, because the water there has an unpleasant whiff of sulfur to me. But between the rapid population growth and the drought, Central Florida will probably be forced to get its water from desalination in a few years anyway.
Just hearing about this mayor makes me want to grab a whip.
This "ban" is on city agencies buying bottled water out of their office funds. No restrictions on private citizens or businesses or how city employees see their own money.
Because it's San Francisco, that's the exact reaction he wants for starters.
LOL! Probably.
This is good. Now the government officials and agencies who legislate fluoride into the water supply will be forced to drink it themselves.
Fluoride is added to San Francisco’s and Salt Lake City’s water supplies (and 2/3 of US public water supplies), not to purify it, but to prevent tooth decay in tap water drinkers. Modern science shows it is ineffective, harmful to health and a waste of tax dollars.
Fluoride chemicals are silicofluorides - waste products of the phosphate fertilizer industry. They are dumped unpurified into the water supply. They are allowed to have trace amounts of lead, arsenic, mercury and other contaminants.
See: http://www.nsf.org/business/water_distribution/pdf/NSF_Fact_Sheet.pdf
Studies link silicofluorides to children’s higher blood lead levels which, in turn, are linked to higher rates of tooth decay.
The statistics prove that tooth decay is on the rise along with fluoride over dose symptoms - dental fluorosis
So drink up government officials and make sure your kids do, too. If you are buying bottled water at home to protect your family, you should be protecting all constituents by ending water fluoridation.
We’ve always noticed that at public meetings by legislators of health department of officials - only bottled water is served. If they won’t drink the tap water, why should we trust them when they claim it is safe.
For more info:
Fluoridation 101
http://www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof
Fluoridation News Releases
http://tinyurl.com/6kqtu
Tooth Decay Crises in Fluoridated Areas
http://www.fluoridenews.blogspot.com/
Fluoride Action Network http://www.FluorideAction.Net
Fluoride Journal http://www.FluorideResearch.Org
Now Rocky is Utah’s Mike Bloomberg, as well as being Utah’s Al Gore.
Rocky is also going to change the liquor laws in Utah because people make fun of Utah when they can’t get a drink easily. (I don’t drink and even I know how to get a drink in Utah...)
The water, for the most part, is great in Utah. Provo’s water is the best because it is well water.
Actually NYC water comes from Westchester county.
The New York City watershed covers an area of over 1,900 square miles in the Catskill Mountains and the Hudson River Valley. The watershed is divided into two reservoir systems: the Catskill/Delaware watershed located West of the Hudson River and the Croton watershed, located East of the Hudson River. Together, the reservoir systems deliver approximately 1.4 billion gallons of water each day to nearly 9 million people in New York City, much of Westchester County, and areas of Orange, Putnam, and Ulster Counties. The Catskill Water Supply System, completed in 1927, and the Delaware Water Supply System, completed in 1967 combine to provide about 90 percent of New York's water supply. The combined Catskill/Delaware (Cat/Del) watersheds cover 1,600 square miles. Water from the Catskill and Delaware systems is mixed in the Kensico reservoir before it is discharged into the Hillview reservoir and on to the distribution system. Drinking water from the Cat/Del System is of high quality and is currently delivered to New York consumers unfiltered (in compliance with the Surface Water Treatment Rule). The Croton Water Supply System began service in 1842 and was completed prior to World War I. Consisting of ten reservoirs and three controlled lakes, the Croton system has the capacity to hold 95 billion gallons of water and normally provides 10 percent of New York's daily water supply. The Croton Watershed covers approximately 375 square miles East of the Hudson River in Westchester, Putnam, and Dutchess Counties and a small section of Connecticut.
The next item SF should ban are disposable diapers.
Amazing that people will pay over $1.00/bottle for something they can get for free. Talk about marketing.
Consider it what you will. I had 14 very painful kidney stones from about 1982-98. My doc told me to quit drinking tap water and drink bottled or specially-filtered water. I am now 9 years without kidney stones since making the change.
If the bottle is capped and then discarded. It traps air in the non-biodegradable water bottle for decades. Environmentalist are concerned that the one billion capped water bottles a year could reduce breathable atmosphere by fifty percent by 2050.
-PJ
He actually said filtered IIRC. Anyway, I've been drinking Aquafina or Lebleu since then and continue to pray that I never have another kidney stone.
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