Bottleless Water Dispensers
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Cost Savings
For the price of one gallon of bottled water, local residents can get 1,000 gallons of tap water.
Environmental & Health Information
Reduces climate change because it reduces oil used to make plastic bottles and fossil fuels to transport bottled water.
Info on this product category: Water: Dispensers & Small Bottles
Criteria for Water: Dispensers & Small Bottles
Criteria for Required products:
All city departments and agencies occupying either city or rental properties will have installed bottle-less water dispensers that utilize Hetch Hetchy supplied water per Executive Directive 07-05 Permanent Phase-Out of Bottled Water Purchases by San Francisco City and County Government. Waivers will only be granted by the SFPUC based on legitimate engineering, health and fiscal concerns.
Criteria for Prohibited products:
No one shall sell or distribute packaged drinking water in a sealed box, bag, can, glass bottle, rigid plastic bottle or other container of one liter or less. City Funds shall not be used to buy packaged water for general use per the Bottled and Package Free Water Ordinance.
Last updated
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Bottled Water and Package Free Ordinance ,
December 13, 2016
Guide for City Staff
Excerpt from San Francisco Environment Code:
SEC. 2405. BARRING USE OF CITY FUNDS FOR PURCHASE OF BOTTLED WATER.
(a) No City officer, department, or agency (collectively, "department") shall use City Funds to purchase Bottled Water for its own general use. A department may use City Funds to purchase Bottled Water for uses specifically exempted from or allowed under this Chapter.
(b) It shall be City policy not to have drinking water systems in City offices or facilities that use plastic water bottles of any size where satisfactory alternatives exist and are feasible at the location under consideration. It shall further be City policy to conform drinking water systems in City offices or facilities to this goal where reasonable by the end of 2016.
Citywide Contract
See discounted prices in the most recent Water Dispensing System Contract Award.
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No more large plastic bottles laying around
Great unit! SF water is better than that bottled stuff.
US Pure Water Filtration System
The Public Defender's office has had the US Pure Water system for almost 3 years and it has virtually eliminated the use of plastic water bottles. Staff like the water quality from the filtration system, and US Pure Water provides timely reminders of when it is necessary to change the filters.
Various Bottle-less Water Dispensing System
We have changed over to the Bottle-less Water Dispensing System for at least two years and it works wonderful. Filters are changed every 6 months and it doesn't break down easily.