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Tuesday, January 03, 2006

Public Water Utility buys bottled water.

Do as we Say... Not as we Do...

Just a simple case of non-verbal actions completely overriding verbal words.

The Department of Water Protection for the City of Los Angeles, which spends over $1 million per year to convince the public the tapwater is safe to drink, spent close to $90,000 on bottled water.

I've been there myself. When I was doing communications in Ontario's Ministry of the Environment, one of the initiatives we undertook was to get rid of bottled water inside our offices. And this was BEFORE the Walkerton water disaster struck (2,000 people became ill from drinking contaminated tap water.)

This really is a no-brainer, folks.