2 mayors in California say no to bottled water

A few months back, the New York Times wrote an expose of sorts on the bottled water industry. By now, most people are familiar with the paper's shocking (read: barely causing people to blink) uncovering of truth: Aquafina and Dasani water are simply purified tap water. Did this revelation hurt bottled water sales? Not really. The fact of the matter is that people didn't really care about the water as much as they cared, and still care, about the convenience. It's not as though the water in these water bottles was sewage, so a question of health concern never actually became one. Instead, the undaunted bottled water industries forged ahead, promising labels that were more forthcoming.

This is all well and good. But, in an age where people are willing to spend more on a 12-oz bottle of Diet Coke than a 2 liter bottle of the stuff (merely because it's far more convenient to tote around the 12-oz bottle than it is to constantly refill a glass), there are some folks out there who are letting common sense prevail over laziness. Two of those people are the mayor of San Francisco and the mayor of Los Angeles. The individuals have banned the use of city money for the purchasing of bottled water. Use the tap water, it's just as clean - that's the general attitude being stridently taken by these two California city mayors, as well as city officials from states around the country.

I can't say that I disagree with these folks. Why waste taxpayer money on bottled water when what you're getting is pretty much the same thing as what comes out of the drinking fountains? Feel free to weigh in on this in the comments section.