Or a better question is that how is someone so stupid still alive? Natural selection should have kicked in by now and he should have been hit by a bus or something crossing the street...
Alderman calls for ban on bottled water
http://calgary.ctv.ca/servlet/an/loc...ub=CalgaryHome
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A Calgary alderman wants the city to join a national movement and ban bottled water.
Joe Ceci plans to put a motion before council later this week asking that bottle water not be allowed at all city-owned facilities.
Ceci says Calgary's water quality makes the move a no brainer. "In many cases, municipalities have to provide [bottled water] to their staff and citizens because they don't have good quality municipal tap water. We have good tap water here," says Ceci.
The move would also make financial sense.
Last year, the city spent thousands of dollars buying 3,400 cases of bottle water for the municipal building alone.
CTV asked Calgarians about the idea of the ban and it is clearly a divisive issue.
Ceci says if other aldermen agree to the ban it would have to be phased in because of contract obligations.
In 2007, Canadians consumed about 2.1-billion litres of bottled water.
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Okay Joe, let me get this straight. You want to ban bottled water because the city had to buy *gasp* 3400 hundred bottles of water? I can't really tell from the article if he just wants the city to stop buying bottled water or if he wants to just exterminate all water bottles.
All this to save the city a few grand in expenses. I know how Joe Ceci could personally save the taxpayers $100k with an added bonus of us not having to hear from him again.
CTV even went the extra mile and got some of of Calgaries intellectual community to weigh in...
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"Bottled water is a big rip off, useless and expensive not to mention all the bottles that end up in the landfill. But let's get our priorities in order. Why would you outlaw bottled water yet keep bottled soda...get rid of it all," says Ruth Hartley.
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"Banning bottled water from city facilities is a waste of time as the problem is not with the bottled water but in the fact that people using this water are not recycling the bottles and therefore causing too many bottles to go to the landfill," says Nigel Higenbottam.
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