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white house spends almost $1mil on bottled water on Wed Feb 09, 2011 11:06 pm
stick rider
Journalist
If the Potomac River, which supplies water to the nation's capital, had run dry, Congress might be able to explain itself. But it hasn't.
And that has left one group calling out the U.S. House for spending $860,000 last year on bottled water -- money it says could have gone toward installing fountains of perfectly potable water.
A report from the nonprofit Corporate Accountability International found that between April 2009 and March 2010, House lawmakers spent an average of $2,000 per member on bottled water.
It might sound like an obscure case to make, but in an era of cost-savings, reducing consumption of bottled water and reinvesting in the country's public water systems go hand-in-hand, the group contends.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/02/09/house-urged-cut-bottled-water-tab-nears-million/?test=latestnews
And that has left one group calling out the U.S. House for spending $860,000 last year on bottled water -- money it says could have gone toward installing fountains of perfectly potable water.
A report from the nonprofit Corporate Accountability International found that between April 2009 and March 2010, House lawmakers spent an average of $2,000 per member on bottled water.
It might sound like an obscure case to make, but in an era of cost-savings, reducing consumption of bottled water and reinvesting in the country's public water systems go hand-in-hand, the group contends.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/02/09/house-urged-cut-bottled-water-tab-nears-million/?test=latestnews
