Oooo - lookie! Sparkly shiny water... bottles
and he wants us to believe he’s not on crack...
Over the last decade, San Franciscans have responded to marketing campaigns to purchase bottled water and record amounts of bottled water have been purchased by San Franciscans at the expense of the environment, [PrettyBoy *gak* Gaven Newsom wrote]
...plastic bottles requiring oil to produce, and releasing one billion pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year.
More than a billion plastic water bottles end up in California landfills annually, he said, taking 1,000 years to biodegrade and leaking toxic additives into the groundwater. [ok - fill me in. What “toxic additives” do water bottles release?]
...By Sept. 30, all city departments...will have completed an audit to determine the viability of switching from bottled water dispensers to bottle-less water dispensers [whaa? like a *water cooler*?!??! With Plastic cups???!?!? *PAPER* cups???? oh, the treeeeeeees!!!*sob*]
By December 1, all city departments will have installed bottle-less water dispensers, according to Newsom’s order. [and the “audit to determine the viability” is for what, ‘xactly]
Waivers will be granted to by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission [which provides the HH “safest, purest drinking water in the nation"] based on legitimate engineering, health and fiscal concerns, Newsom said.
*splork* “health concerns”
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