{"id":16,"date":"2008-03-19T07:41:41","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T15:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/take-back-the-tap\/"},"modified":"2009-05-05T15:31:45","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T23:31:45","slug":"take-back-the-tap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/take-back-the-tap\/","title":{"rendered":"Take back the tap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/chronicle\/archive\/2008\/03\/19\/FDG4VILEL.DTL\"><i>Chronicle<\/i><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Water words: The City of San Francisco, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission and the nonprofit Food and Water Watch are launching the restaurant-based &#8220;Take Back the Tap&#8221; campaign at noon Thursday in front of the Ferry Building.<br \/>\nThe campaign is designed to encourage restaurants to forgo serving bottled water and instead use tap water, with a goal of protecting the environment and reducing greenhouse gases, says Tony Winnicker, PUC director of communications. Every restaurant in the city &#8211; more than 3,000, Winnicker says &#8211; will receive a how-to guide to help them convert to tap.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So many restaurants are using sustainable products. The next step is to use sustainable water,&#8221; Winnicker says, pointing out that the city&#8217;s water was cited as the cleanest of 20 municipal water supplies tested for possible contaminants (see the links with this story at sfgate.com\/food). He also notes the city&#8217;s water is brought from Hetch Hetchy by gravity and creates clean energy along the way.<\/p>\n<p>Because the water campaign consortium is focusing on restaurants to educate consumers, any consumer who happens to wander over to the Ferry Building event tomorrow will score a free stainless steel water bottle, courtesy of the water campaign consortium.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nFrom the Chronicle: Water words: The City of San Francisco, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission and the nonprofit Food&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/take-back-the-tap\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Take back the tap&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-water","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}