Albany Times Union - No More Water-Cooler Chat in State Offices

Gov. David Paterson will announce this morning that the state is phasing out its bottled-water spending, which will eventually bring an end to the maintenance of water coolers and the purchase of bottled waters for meetings.

In addition to the green argument that the bottles create unneeded waste, there’s a common-sense argument: The state is already paying for the public water system — which is supposed to make a product that’s, y’know, drinkable and all — and its water purchases amount to the Ford company buying a fleet of BMWs for its employees.

Corporate Accountability International, which has been urging the state to make this move as part of its Think Outside the Bottle initiative, praised the governor’s action, which makes New York the third state to implement a bottle reduction. The executive order, it says, “is the furthest reaching of the three state actions taken to date (Illinois cut bottled water spending a year ago but did so through its executive branch procurement office, Virginia cut bottled water spending in the governor’s budget).”

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