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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Sustainable water policy needed
Letters to the Editor | 9/18/07
Posted online at 1:41 AM EST on 9/18/07
To the Editor:
Congratulations on a fine editorial "Drink straight from the tap" (Sept. 11 issue), on the virtues of tap water and the environmental costs of the ubiquitous bottled water on campus. Imagine the carbon "footprint" of a bottle of water from Fiji or New Zealand, France or other boutique waters.
You are also right that Aramark should be offering our own tap water free instead of pushing bottled water on us. Dasani is indeed just purified tap water. It was ironic that on a hot afternoon at the recent orientation for 130 new students in the Sustainable International Development graduate programs, Aramark servers insisted that it was policy not to serve pitchers of water. The hundreds of bottles of water we were asked to buy not only would have further strained our university program budget but would have contributed to the global warming that our students have come to study.
-Prof. Laurence R. Simon
The writer is the director of Sustainable International Development Programs at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management.
Congratulations on a fine editorial "Drink straight from the tap" (Sept. 11 issue), on the virtues of tap water and the environmental costs of the ubiquitous bottled water on campus. Imagine the carbon "footprint" of a bottle of water from Fiji or New Zealand, France or other boutique waters.
You are also right that Aramark should be offering our own tap water free instead of pushing bottled water on us. Dasani is indeed just purified tap water. It was ironic that on a hot afternoon at the recent orientation for 130 new students in the Sustainable International Development graduate programs, Aramark servers insisted that it was policy not to serve pitchers of water. The hundreds of bottles of water we were asked to buy not only would have further strained our university program budget but would have contributed to the global warming that our students have come to study.
-Prof. Laurence R. Simon
The writer is the director of Sustainable International Development Programs at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management.
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