San Francisco Tap Water Now Available in Bottles

Yahoo! ^ | Wednesday, March 26, 2003 | The Associated Press

[Willie Green]

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use.

SAN FRANCISCO - If you like San Francisco's tap water, you can now drink it anywhere.

The first bottle from the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in the Sierra Nevada was purchased for $1.25 Tuesday. It is the same water piped hundreds of miles to San Francisco residents.

"The sale of Hetch Hetchy Mountain Water provides a unique opportunity to promote San Francisco as well as raise public awareness of our precious water resource," Mayor Willie Brown said.

The idea to have the city's Public Utilities Commission (news - web sites) join the bottled water market was conceived by the mayor, said commission general manager Patricia Martel. The commission oversees the drinking water supply for most of the Bay Area. On average, the system delivers 210 million to 240 million gallons of water daily to the Bay Area.

Hetch Hetchy Mountain Water claims its source from the Tuolumne River, melted mountain snow and glacial streams. It will be sold at the city's three official souvenir shops and will eventually branch out to the zoo, airport and Fisherman's Wharf.

[Willie Green]

ping

[Tijeras_Slim]

Bump for the inevitable.

[GOP_Raider]

At Pac Bell Park it will probably cost $5.

[N. Theknow]

San Francisco Tap Water Now Available in Bottles

If it's from San Franciso shouldn't it be in "buttles?"

[TRY ONE]

One would expect the Grand Opening to offer
a free loaf of sour dough bread, 'Ol Chap!

[FloridaBoy]

so, who wants it???????????????????

[martin_fierro]

Ewwww.

[Republicus2001]

heh-at the heights of the designer times in the 80's -90's we were thinking of bottling Beverly Hills Tap Water and selling it overseas as high-end water...were gonna call it BH Tap...figured 'twas against the law somehow, it's seemed like a no-brainer.

[OpusatFR]

Not I, not after seeing people urinating in the streets...

Ewwwwwww.....

[TexanToTheCore]

Houston started doing this last year to great fanfare and festivities. As far as I know, none of the bottled tap water has been sold. Just another Blow Out by the brown administration.

[Teetop]

Ummm, no thanks, I'll stick with my well water!

[Wolverine]

Just another opportunity for the liberal city/state to tax the by-product of water consumption. I'd collect rainwater in a barrel before I would buy it!

[old3030]

Next time you're at wally-world check out the generic bottled water for sale as Sam's or whatever. I've seen it from the Fort Worth water supply system and from Kansas City.

[Cultural Jihad]

Hetch Hetchy water is high quality, though. They even built a Water Temple in Woodside where the Hetch Hetchy Aquaduct terminates in the early 1900's:

http://www.dakan.net/pulgas.htm

[mhking]

"Hold muh beer 'n watch this!" PING....

If you want on or off this list, please let me know!

[discostu]

Tucson did this years ago, but we were giving it away for free. They called it "The Blend" it was supposed to prove to people that when the mixed Central Arizona Project water into the system again it would be disgusting smelling rust flakes like last time.

[tubebender]

How were they able to filter the asbestos out of it...

[dogbyte12]

Everest Brand water is Corpus Christi Tap water I have heard.