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Where it comes from. But also as people had Water Quality concerns, some of the concerns that christina alluded to in her presentation, people started calling 311 more. So, we had a 10 increase in Water Quality concerns and that again became another vehicle to talk to people about where their water came from to test to make sure the water was safe and assure them that, you know, in fact it was safe to drink. We also do tours of our water system. So, Community Residents and organization has an op...

Bottled water as an environmental concern, but the concern that that raises sometimes has been that makes water not available and what are the other options that can be sold in a small package and offer something with added sugar. Looking at those policies, unexpected consequences of what that are. And then lastly, continuing to do outreach and awareness, particularly with populations that we want to do more outreach to. As i mentioned earlier, there is National Data showing that lower income po...

Bottled water as an environmental concern, but the concern that that raises sometimes has been that makes water not available and what are the other options that can be sold in a small package and offer something with added sugar. Looking at those policies, unexpected consequences of what that are. And then lastly, continuing to do outreach and awareness, particularly with populations that we want to do more outreach to. As i mentioned earlier, there is National Data showing that lower income po...

Water once they understood where it comes from. But also as people had Water Quality concerns, some of the concerns that christina alluded to in her presentation, people started calling 311 more. So, we had a 10 increase in Water Quality concerns and that again became another vehicle to talk to people about where their water came from to test to make sure the water was safe and assure them that, you know, in fact it was safe to drink. We also do tours of our water system. So, Community Residents...

And that these books were written in part out of desperation. I was having to think earlier with a grad student and we were reflecting on how we struggled in some of our economic stat classes. Naked economics was written almost by accident in the sense that ive been assigned a class to teach economics to journalist. I called my i was unsuccessfully trying to sell a book on the gambling industry. Never got that went in. It was a good book to be written and i said to her, i have to teach this econ...

One outcome of that is anecdotally, people told us that they started to drink more water once they understood where it comes from. But also as people had Water Quality concerns, some of the concerns that christina alluded to in her presentation, people started calling 311 more. So, we had a 10 increase in Water Quality concerns and that again became another vehicle to talk to people about where their water came from to test to make sure the water was safe and assure them that, you know, in fact ...

Help monitor potential contaminants in the water supply, but there was also a Public Education component to the grant. And, so, what we did is launched a Education Program that was really about what people should do if they were concerned about the water, concerned about Water Quality issues, is to call 311. But it also began to be a vehicle to talk about where, you know, our pristine hetch hetchy water. It was a really successful a successful Education Program. We saw the signs on muni bus stat...

So, we had a 10 increase in Water Quality concerns and that again became another vehicle to talk to people about where their water came from to test to make sure the water was safe and assure them that, you know, in fact it was safe to drink. We also do tours of our water system. So, Community Residents and organization has an opportunity to go up to hetch hetchy to see the water system at work. Supervisor cohen has been a big supporter of the Youth Internship Program we do in the summer for aro...

And what actually happened as one outcome of that is anecdotally, people told us that they started to drink more water once they understood where it comes from. But also as people had Water Quality concerns, some of the concerns that christina alluded to in her presentation, people started calling 311 more. So, we had a 10 increase in Water Quality concerns and that again became another vehicle to talk to people about where their water came from to test to make sure the water was safe and assure...

Fresh Drinking Water is available really everywhere, not just institutions. Looking at healthy defaults so that the beverage that is the first beverage of choice is Something Like low or nonfat milk or water. Working with child care centers, continuing to work on organizational wellness policies, looking at systemic, there is a great policy around bottled water and not using our funds to buy bottled water as an environmental concern, but the concern that that raises sometimes has been that makes...