{"id":2161,"date":"2011-01-05T16:25:02","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T16:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filtersfast.com\/blog\/?p=2161"},"modified":"2014-02-20T13:58:07","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T18:58:07","slug":"congress-bottled-water-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.filtersfast.com\/blog\/congress-bottled-water-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Should the GOP Cut Bottled Water Budget?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Deer Park Bottled Water\" alt=\"Deer Park Bottled Water\" src=\"http:\/\/nestlewaters.weebly.com\/uploads\/5\/3\/2\/1\/5321670\/2763489.gif\" width=\"225\" height=\"206\" \/>In just the first quarter of last year, the House spent a whopping $190,000 on bottled water ($120,000 of that went to Deer Park water). John Boehner, the new house speaker, says he will move to <a title=\"Congress bottled water\" href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2011\/01\/05\/news\/economy\/boehner_cut_congress_budget\/index.htm?section=money_latest&amp;utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+rss\/money_latest+(Latest+News)\">cut budgets by 5 percent<\/a> starting tomorrow. Will the bottled water budget be included in these cuts?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bradford Fitch, the CEO of the Congressional Management Foundation, maintains that the House&#8217;s consumption of bottled water is not a luxury, but a necessity due to &#8220;D.C. tap water&#8217;s reputation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Washington, D.C.&#8217;s tap water reputation was certainly sullied when it was discovered that the <a title=\"washington dc tap water lead\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lead_contamination_in_Washington,_D.C._drinking_water\">tap water contained unsafe levels of lead<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But DC tap water has come a long way in the last few years. In a blind taste test, <a title=\"DC Tap Water Preferred Over Bottled Water\" href=\"http:\/\/dcist.com\/2010\/09\/dc_tap_water_beats_bottled_in_blind.php\">DC tap water was preferred over bottled water<\/a>. DC Water has also set up new facilities around town, and they&#8217;ve become more transparent.\u00a0\u00a0<a title=\"DC Water FAQ\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dcwater.com\/waterquality\/faqs.cfm\">DC Water&#8217;s FAQ page<\/a> addresses and answers concerns about various contaminants. It specifically details what DC water is doing to ensure lead doesn&#8217;t enter into home tap water.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Is all of this enough to convince the House to scale back on their bottled water consumption? Should it be? And what does it say about Congress if they&#8217;re content to let DC residents drink tap water that they themselves will not drink or attempt to fix?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In just the first quarter of last year, the House spent a whopping $190,000 on bottled water ($120,000 of that went to Deer Park water). John Boehner, the new house speaker, says he will move to cut budgets by 5 percent starting tomorrow. Will the bottled water budget be included in these cuts? 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