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Water, water everywhere and not a book to
read……
Back to the point. The original brilliant
observation was that this represents a large potential saving in many council
budgets. Has anyone been able to do the sums to find out the national figure? Or
to extrapolate suffiecient to use publicly? Can it be used in lobbying?
And
while I’m at it, ask for tap water in restaurants (Some now bring it to
the table automatically). You could even send the money you save to Wateraid at
http://www.wateraid.org/international/donate/
John
John
Dolan OBE, BA, Dip Lib, MCLIP
Tw @johnrdolan
T. 0121 476 4258
M. 07508 204200
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Sent: 13 September 2011 15:46
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: bottled water
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I don’t understand the reference to
drinking from a bathroom tap - I think you will find that your employer
has to provide an adequate source of drinkable mains water.
Personally I can’t understand why
people would prefer to drink water that’s been sitting in a plastic
cooler bottle for god knows how long, as opposed to clean and safe plain tap
water.
Fran Renwick| Assistant Head of
Libraries| Neighbourhoods |Derby City Council, Saxon House,
Heritage Gate,
From:
lis-pub-libs: UK Public Libraries [mailto:
Sent: 13 September 2011 14:44
To:
Subject: Re: bottled water
But thats my point in Yorkshire and most of the UK tap water is
perfectly drinkable and at least as good as some bottled waters. And its fre
Remember Coca Cola were prosecuted for selling neat tap
water.
see
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3523303.stm
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 2:31 PM,
But what's the alternative?
We have water coolers in our libraries, and if we didn't then people would have
to go out to buy bottled water.. and you wouldn't really want to drink water
from a bathroom tap.
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Carolyn Carter <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
I
have at last had the information about Somerset CC's spend on water, not as
much as
Carolyn
Carter
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Our Response
We have provided data from the latest financial year
2010/2011. We are providing total amount spent per directorate for Mains
Water Coolers (plugged into the mains system) and Bottle Water coolers.
Environment
Main Coolers: £2,779
Bottle Coolers: £0
Total: £2,779
Community
Main Coolers: £0
Bottle Coolers: £3,047
Total: £3,047
Children and Young People
Main Coolers: £3,016
Bottle Coolers: £4,444
Total: £7,460
Resources
Main Coolers: £4,500
Bottle Coolers: £0
Total: £4,500
Totals
Main Coolers Overall Total: £10,295
Bottle Coolers Overall Total: £7,491
We do not provide bottled table water for meetings or other
functions.
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Sent: Thursday, 9 June 2011, 14:17
Subject: Re: bottled water
Dear
Ian
This
was a major soap-box issue for me when I worked for the public library service
(made redundant last year). It is perfectly, fatuously, expensively
ridiculous to pay whatever we all pay for potable drinking water, then buy in
environmentally and monetarily expensive water.
I will
do a FOI request here in
SIncerely,
TOni
PS And what about the 'jiggers' - ridiculously small plastic
containers of bland milk substitute that our local council buys? I always
needed at least 3 per cup of tea. With a modicum of care and sense, jugs
of milk could be used once mor
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From: Carolyn Carter <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 13:37
Subject: Re: bottled water
Excellent
idea! I'll contact
Carolyn Carter
From:
To:
Sent: Thursday, 9 June, 2011
12:39:38
Subject: bottled water
My local council is under pressure when it was discovered the police force
spent £35,000 on drinking water last year. This is
It strikes me
that many other authorities spend lots on bottled water. Perhaps any one under
threat should pose a Freedom of Information question on costs of bottled water
in their authority.
Councillors
don't like closing libraries but do like saving money. Give them something else
to save and then they can gain kudos by saving libraries
Annie
Mauger is asking what members want from CILIP.
Heres an idea
for CILIP
email a FOI
enquiry to every authority for what they spend on bottled water and what they
spend on books and send to the local press
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