{"id":16288,"date":"2011-02-10T07:00:52","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T15:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/?p=16288"},"modified":"2011-02-10T07:00:52","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T15:00:52","slug":"house-of-representatives-still-drinking-bottled-water-costing-u-s-nearly-1-million-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/articles\/house-of-representatives-still-drinking-bottled-water-costing-u-s-nearly-1-million-a-year\/","title":{"rendered":"House of Representatives Still Drinking Bottled Water, Costing U.S. Nearly $1 Million a Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

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While our country’s leaders ‘try to tackle’ the world’s biggest problems, they contribute to a number of them, too. For example, Corporate Accountability International reports that the House of Representatives spent $860,000 in one year alone on bottled water<\/a> (almost $2,000 per House member), despite the availability of cheaper, greener options. That money could have purchased 4,000 water fountains! Seriously, how are they spending so much on water?<\/p>\n

Looking for a way to cut wasteful spending? (Of course, this isn’t going to solve our economic problems, but it sure would be a helpful step to cut this wasteful, harmful spending.)<\/p>\n

DC Water’s George Hawkins<\/a> has challenged the House to go bottled-water-free now and has actually offered to give each member of Congress reusable bottles and free water quality testing. Here’s a video of him talking about some of these issues.<\/p>\n