If approved by the full board later this month, the rate for the average
customer who
uses less than 9,000 gallons a month would go up to $ 4.65 per 1,000 gallons of
water.
Basically, the campaign requests that restaurants stop buying bottled
water for these reasons: - Tap
water is no
less safe than bottled
water, especially if the tap is filtered - Restaurants will protect
customers from the chemicals and pollutants found in various brands of bottled
water - The city of San Francisco's
water is tested more than 100,000 times each year, and it meets state and federal
water quality standards that are stricter than bottled
water standards - It's cheaper - It's better for the environment to end the manufacturing of plastic bottles - Focusing on
using tap
water will refocus monies towards the repair and maintenance of our
water infrastructure
As the United States confronts inevitable
water shortages, we need to insist that power companies, developers and others who need
water offset the impact of their new
uses by persuading existing
water customers to
use less.