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City Councilmen Eric Gioia of Queens and Simcha Felder of Brooklyn will introduce a bill next week that would prohibit the city from buying bottled water and water coolers for workers at city agencies, the Daily News reports. At a press conference yesterday, the two councilmen said taxpayers could save $2 million a year by having municipal offices switch to systems that filter tap water. Felder himself installed a $400 heating and cooling water filter in his office this year, and he told reporters, "It is hypocritical for the city to buy bottled water while urging New Yorkers to drink tap." In addition to saving money, the bill would lessen the city's carbon footprint and waste, without sacrificing taste. Over the summer, NYC placed second in a regional tap-water tasting contest, bested only by Bethpage on Long Island.
Bill to Ban Bottled Water, Water Coolers At City Agencies
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We have the best public water system. This should be a no brainer.
Anyone noticed nyc tap water tastes way better after you stick it in the fridge?
the water is good. It's just the pipes that are bad. If you don't run the tap for at least a full minute you'll get rusty crap in there. the thing is that if you run the water for a full minute, you are wasting water. It's a catch 22 situation.
I've worked in buildings where we were told to NOT drink the tap water due to the condition of the pipes. I worked in the Crown Building (where Playboy has it's offices, ooh la la)in the late 80s, when it was owned by Imelda Marcos, and the physical plant was in terrible disrepair. We just bought a new refrigerator at home that has a water line connection and a filter for water and ice in the door, but we still get water from the tap (but ice from the door because it's so much fun! I like crushed ice.)
Point is that it's shocking city agencies weren't drinking their own metaphorical Kool-aid. Bottled water? That's so 2002. And so Long Island.
Speaking of Long Island, congrats on the better drinking water. Shame you're all criminals (as recent news herein suggests,) but good work on the water.
filtered water has problems too! You need to have the water constantly flowing through filtered systems. I have a filtered system in my house through my fridge but since I only drink 1 or 2 cups a day the water just sits in there and builds up gunk in the carbon charcoal system. I took out my filter and it was filled with bacteria. The best solution I've found is those Brita water pitchers. They store just enough for 5 glasses and you pretty much fill them every day so the water flows, they are cheap and you can wash them every week to flush them out.
one word:
Fluoride it keeps them thar teeth from rotting!
Of course the city wants you to drink TAP water over ARTESIAN water (or other healthy water sources).
They want you to drink that nice FLUORIDE water, drink your fluoride water and take your mercury filled vaccines SLAVES!
plastic water bottles = treason
Been using my Sigg for 6 months now and couldn't be happier to be off the plastic. My office has a pretty good filter, but it drives me crazy to see people at work go through multiple plastic cups throughout the day. Baby steps I guess...
This is the kind of thinking that will close the budget gap in the city. Why the hell are taxpayers paying for bottled water in city offices to begin with. More stuff like this needs to be fixed.
The plastic water bottle for the environment talk is nonsense. It's a diversion from our real environmental issues.
That said, I'm in favor of cutting spending so this is good to me.
My only worry with NYC tap water is sometimes it smells like bleach.
Let's cut down the amount of municipal offices that drink bottled water.
wow, so all of the mayor's offices downtown will be switching over too?
Re; paper cups at work, it boggles the mind that offices allow this and underwrite the costs. I have a terrific old Fire King mug for the 97 cups of tea I drink daily (slight exaggeration,) and I have a swell 1964 World's Fair glass (Shea Stadium) for drinking water. Smarten up: bring in a mug.
#12 - That should be only after they add extra chlorine in rare cases of increased turbidity (cloudiness) in the water at a station. In recent memory I can recall 2 such incidents in the past 5 years in the Bronx.
As a former school teacher, my concern is that there were no adult water fountains in NYC public schools. Some younger kids lick the faucets, some older kids spit right on it. Its downright nasty. DOE should be exempt.
Simcha felder took a lot of slush fund "pork money" from us. He is a thief and a greedy bastard. vote him out
Re #12--mine sometimes smells like bleach, too. What is that? Does anyone know?
If your tap water smells like chlorine, put it in a pitcher and let it sit overnight in the fridge... the chlorine will evaporate.
I think the NYC water is OK. I do drink it on occasion. I also have a Britta pitcher. I change the filter every couple of months. It also give a chance for the chlorine to evaporate. Never got into bottled water. Once in a while when I'm out and thirsty its convenient to I will buy a bottle. The plastic garbage is outrageous.
Don't offices with water coolers generally have a delivery service to drop off gigantic containers of water and pick up the old ones? I would hope those are being reused.