more signs of a cash crunch at work...

[jay]

SUBJECT: Cancellation of Bottled Water Service

This is to notify you that the bottled water service is being cancelled effective February 28, 2005. While this action is regrettable, it is necessary to bring the Center into compliance with appropriation laws.

... we asked the Environmental Services Division to verify that the tap water at the Center is in compliance with the California Safe Drinking Water Act. In January, they certified that the tap water at the Center has been deemed safe to drink per California's Safe Drinking Water Act (as approved by the US EPA). For this reason, the Center is required to discontinue the use of a bottled water service that is funded by the Center's budget.

Keep in mind that Moffett Field has a dozen Superfund sites on the premises, and no one currently drinks the tap water (it tastes a bit off)...

Comments

[dangerpudding.livejournal.com]

Wow, and I thought not having free coffee was weird. Guess it's time to invest in an office Britta?

[hopeforyou.livejournal.com]

Costco?

We're going to need water, too.

Thankfully, Pictor can survive in tap water treated with the special drops -- at least so far.

[dawnd.livejournal.com]

yeah, CostCo was my thought.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

remember, this is the place where cheap ballpoint pens are printed "US Government" to avoid them being misused... ;)

[western-slope.livejournal.com]

At my former employer, the tap water was so bad that even a Britta filter didn't help much. (Former NASA Administrator Dan Goldin once made a speech where he commented that the tap water in the South Bay region of So. Cal. was so bad that he ALWAYS drank bottled water.)

Rather than drink this swill or periodically haul in a couple of gallons of filtered water from a safe source, I'd go out to the company's de-ionized water system (which wasn't used too often) and fill up a couple of gallon jugs with it. I told them that the water in the system had to be run through periodically to ensure that it didn't build up any organic contaminants. Which was true.

The water was quite tasty and clean and made great tea.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

excellent creative solution! Too bad that we don't do life-support research in my building, or spacesuits... (wry grin).

Tap water.

[frankenboob.livejournal.com]

That's another way to weed out employees.

Re: Tap water.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

(giggle) just like in 2003 when we had Legionnaire's detected in the hot water system...

[loitl.livejournal.com]

The worst water I've ever seen was at camp. It was from a well and was VERY hard... but that's wasn't the... weird... part..


The well drilling had either run through a natural gas/methane pocket, or the water that was hit had a gas in it in the first place. Anyway, the fun initiation for new people who complained about the water was to get a cleaned gallon milk jug and pour a gallon from the tap.. and then light the gasses coming from the top on fire. It would burn for 10 seconds or more.

The other 'bad' water I've seen was from the town I grew up in; the source was a large under-ground river and it was extremely hard. When we moved in, the bath tubs of water looked like ice tea. We shortly thereafter installed a water softener. The city itself has also installed an industrial water softener.