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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 station, you saw them on tv. And what actually happened as one outcome of that is anecdotally, people to...

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 Hunte...

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 them that, you know, in fact it was safe to drink. We also do tours of our water system. So, Commun...

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 water not available and what are the other options that can be sold in a small package and offer so...

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 it was safe to drink. We also do tours of our water system. So, Community Residents and organization...