POLITICS: The Water Left
Fund, John H.
P o l I T I c s The Water Left by John H. Fund first openly gay supervisor and then was tragic- They have Just finisheD filming a new Sean Penn movie in my hometown of San Francisco. It...
...Joseph Bastianich of New York’s Del Posto restaurant told the New York Times: “Filling cargo ships with water and sending it hundreds and thousands of miles to get it around the world seems ridiculous...
...In fighting back, other liberals are raising the issue of water security as part of their counteroffensive...
...But there are some holdouts...
...Along with other bottled water companies, FIJI is also reducing the amount of plastic and paper used for bottled water...
...Since then, I’m told the owner of FIJI Water has responded to a growing chorus of questions just like mine...
...No telling what the terrorists might be up to...
...We truly have come full circle...
...In a trope that could have been taken from a conspiratorial John Birch Society pamphlet of the 1960s, many environmentalists rail against purported links between the fluoride in tap water and bone cancer, thyroid conditions, and teeth problems...
...the FDA only does weekly testing and it doesn’t share those results with even local governments...
...They should be fun to watch...
...She has announced that next year her bottling plant in Fiji will be powered by, get this, a windmill...
...In reality, tap water is much more vigorously regulated by the EPA than bottled water is by the FDA...
...They convinced the public that bottled water was more pure, tasted better, and was safer than good ol’ tap water...
...Instead, the order touts San Francisco’s “pristine tap water” as an alternative...
...We truly have come full circle...
...It was one of those great “never mind” moments...
...Nonetheless, last year Americans spent more on bottled water than on iPods and movie tickets combined—a whopping $16 billion...
...P o l I T I c s The Water Left by John H. Fund first openly gay supervisor and then was tragic- They have Just finisheD filming a new Sean Penn movie in my hometown of San Francisco...
...A small item caught my attention: the director telling extras they could have all the bottled water they wanted but they had to hide the stuff when the cameras rolled...
...Consumption hit 28 gallons per person last year, up from 17 gallons in 2000 and the mere trickle of 2 gallons per person back in 1980...
...And I thought the arguments about oil and national security were bizarre...
...The EPA requires daily tests for bacteria and they are publicly reported...
...Even though liberals embraced bottled water in the 1980s for its purity and chicness, they are now leading the PC parade against it...
...People drank H2O from out of the tap in the ’70s,” he explained...
...And hard to follow...
...I was blunt: “Why aren’t we drinking from that instead of shipping water from 9,000 miles away in plastic bottles that need energy to make them...
...San Francisco, which started the trend toward bottled water in the chic ’80s, is now dumping the stuff as far as city government goes because of the “waste and pollution” that come with it...
...I hope that instead of some stringent adherence to the latest political correctness we will be presented with a choice in the future,” she sniffed...
...Mayor Gavin Newsom has issued an executive order forbidding city departments, agencies, and contractors to use bottled water...
...Beginning with a modest invasion by the French Perrier and Evian brands in the early 1980s, purveyors of bottled water pulled off a brilliant marketing scam...
...The crowd was stunned...
...The moderator quickly moved on to another subject...
...FIJI will now ship water destined for the East Coast directly to Philadelphia rather than having it trucked in from Los Angeles...
...ists...
...We’ve come a long way since then...
...Film reports about the sets and actors on the streets of San Francisco were fascinating to me...
...He calls on people to avoid not just tap water but also bottled water made from filtered tap water, such as Dasani...
...If it is bad for babies, how about children and anyone else...
...The bottled water scam was started by an alliance of clever companies that preyed on the vanity and fears about tap water held by the yuppie class that came of age in the 1980s...
...But now, the pendulum may be swinging back...
...I picked up the bottle of Fiji water—which had been declared the conference’s “official” water—in front of me and noted that there was a perfectly good mountain stream just behind us...
...Alice Waters, the doyenne of organic food, has banned bottled still water from her Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley...
...5 4 T H e a M e R I c a n s P e c T a T o R M a y 2 0 0 8 J o H n H . f u n d The private sector is also joining in...
...They note that in 2006, the American Dental Association recommended that fluoridated water not be used for mixing baby formulas...
...M a y 2 0 0 8 T H e a M e R I c a n s P e c T a T o R 5 5...
...Other establishments are following suit...
...asks Bay Area environmentalist Paul Soderman...
...Bottled water is the fastest-growing part of the beverage industry...
...Now the even more liberal children of the yuppies are rising up and seeking to ban the stuff...
...It stars Penn as one of the city’s iconic political figures, Harvey Milk, who in the 1970s became that city’s ally gunned down by Dan White, a fellow county supervisor...
...If you have jugs of open tap water anything could be put into it,” is how Gidley puts it...
...His allies in Parliament are seeking to ban its use at government meetings...
...Now the even more liberal children of the yuppies are rising up and seeking to ban the stuff...
...Maybe we’ll have to live next to a mountain stream to avoid being dehydrated...
...And all for a product that, even with oil at over $100 a barrel, is sold for more per gallon than gasoline in most places...
...She and other probottled water members are now playing the national security card, noting that there are ominous reasons to keep her constituency’s local water on the tables of Parliament...
...Isays drinking bottled water borders on the s a l o o i h r e t i n t n m n o r i E . e h s n p b lit r t itai l n e , ft t he n v battle e ove M r i bo s ttled P w l a W ter has “morally unacceptable” because of the energy used in transporting it...
...But that has raised the hackles of Sandra Gidley, a Liberal Democrat MP, and other members who note that the bottled water currently used by Parliament comes from their constituencies...
...The bottled water scam was started by an alliance of clever companies that preyed on the vanity and fears about tap water held by the yuppie class that came of age in the 1980s...
...Now the water wars inside the left have begun...
...John H. fund, The American Spectator’s Politics columnist, is author of Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy (Encounter Books...
...I finally had enough...
...No one said anything...
...Speaker after speaker solemnly informed the Iglobal warming with a group of environmenta o ls i r e p e h d t a b e d I e r h w , d a o n A D sp ee e D n , it C is l . o l r ast o y ear e , I attended e a c t onference i l n - f audience that the world has to cut back on consumption of resources in order to reduce carbon emissions...
Vol. 41 • May 2008 • No. 4
