SAN FRANCISCO — Several upscale eateries in California are now serving free tap water instead of bottled water, a March 21 cbs 5 story reported.
One of them, Chez Panisse, serves filtered tap water and will soon offer carbonated tap water, also for free, the story said.
The restaurant's general manager, Michael Kossa-Rienzi, said, "Just the logistics of bottling water, shipping it here and then trucking it to this restaurant, didn't make sense to us. It just uses up way more energy than is necessary for something like that," according to the story.
According to a March 21 San Francisco Chronicle story, restaurants Incanto, Poggio, and Nopa serve tap water, and the ice cream boutique Ici does as well.
San Francisco Public Utilities Commission General Manager Susan Leal, who is leading a campaign aimed at getting San Francisco city officials to stop using bottled water, and the co-owner of Chez Panisse, Alice Waters, will speak out at a private event on March 22 in favor of the pro-tap water movement, the story said.
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