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 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 around the sewer system. So, actually right now we have a number of young people from the bayview Hunters Point who participated this summer at hetch hetchy right now. So, it was a great end to their summer. And then our Communications Team [speaker not understood] regional event from, you know, sunday streets, chinese new year, pri
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 populations tend to buy bottled water. We dont want them to. For so many reasons. But if there are issues with cavities, then theyre not getting the fluoride. We dont want them to spend money on bottled water when they dont need to be. If their pipes are good, they should be Drinking Water from the tap for all kinds of reasons. So, we know that immigrant populations also tend to buy more bottled water. So, ultimately what you know, im here to be an advocate for Drinking Water, an advocate for the
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 populations tend to buy bottled water. We dont want them to. For so many reasons. But if there are issues with cavities, then theyre not getting the fluoride. We dont want them to spend money on bottled water when they dont need to be. If their pipes are good, they should be Drinking Water from the tap for all kinds of reasons. So, we know that immigrant populations also tend to buy more bottled water. So, ultimately what you know, im here to be an advocate for Drinking Water, an advocate for the
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 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 around the sewer system. So, actually right now we have a number of young people from the bayview Hunters Point who participated this summer at hetch hetchy right now. So, it was a great end to their summer. And then our Communications Team [speaker not understood] regional event from, you know, sunday str
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 economics cost a bunch of journalists. The textbook would be inappropriate. I cant find anything that would convey why they should care about this. That wouldnt consume with the math and the questions. It was a long pause and she said, you are going to write it and its going to be called economics for poets and im going to read it. So thats a naked economics was born. And wants that kind of found a niche among people who been scared away, or bored to death, but economic classes, we said lets go back