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Hunters point and other vis valley have strong drink tap stations. I also wanted to say on big themes, the issue of privatization of water was brought up, i think thats a really good one, whether its the soda corporations or the bottled water companies, the advertising and marketing kind of from that end to even the lack of access to drink tap stations i think is a really important issue. On equity and maintenance of the drink tap stations and the existing water fountains, i think thats a rec park and a puc issue. If people are fearful that it will be dirty or they wont work, i think they will...

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...

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 sew...

Were asking specifically about the tap stations in schools or tap stations outdoors, so both. So, for outdoors, tap stations were determined based on use by the public. So, theyre in large public open spaces such as Golden Gate Park and Yerba Buena Center for the arts as well as the airport. Just because of the congregation of people that go there. The schools were determined by [speaker not understood] not going to be receiving prop a bond fund from the 2006 or 2011 bond schedule. So, 2003 bond schools, some of them went through all their renovation and didnt receive a new Drinking Water foun...

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 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 increa...