Group To Mayor: Water Is Cheap, You Idiot

An coalition of students, environmentalists, Christians and thirsty people have written a letter to Mayor Street asking him to get rid of all the bottled water the city buys.

Philadelphia, as you may know, has a pretty decent water supply, not full of arsenic or lead or blood or floating heads or whatever. The push is organized by Corporate Accountability International, who is leading the push against “the marketing muscle of bottled water corporations.” Indeed!

So will Philadelphia abolish watercoolers, thus also boosting productivity due to a lack of watercooler talk about last night’s American Idol? Mayor Street’s spokesman says he’ll have to read the letter first. I see a coalition of bored office workers who will soon be protesting the proposed regulations fiercely.

Update: Fortunately, we can expect the Street administration to be a bit more courteous than the government in New Dehli, which arrested 60 people for asking for water.

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