Seriously, when did we become too good for tap water?
If you’re afraid of all the nasties in the water (which will only make you stronger and more resistant to disease), then they should install a filtration system in the kitchen/bathroom (which some departments have, yet they continue to buy bottled water!)
MELBOURNE enjoys Australia’s finest drinking water, yet the State’s public servants appear to prefer the bottled variety — and lots of it.
Documents obtained by The Sunday Age show that taxpayers have spent more than $500,000 on bottled water for bureaucrats over the past four years.
The thirstiest agencies were the Department of Human Services ($137,092); police headquarters ($104,498) and the Department of Justice ($96,859).
Bureaucrats say much of the water is consumed by public visitors. But the true amount spent on bottles is much higher because the documents, obtained under freedom-of-information legislation, do not include areas such as local police and other emergency stations, schools, other agencies or water bought with meal allowances or petty cash.
” … due to the large number of personnel who purchase and process the payments it is inevitable that some purchases may not be identified,” says a response to the FoI request from the Victoria Police.
Even departments such as Infrastructure, which have filtered drinking water in their kitchens, spent thousands on bottled water. Eleven key state departments spent $550,504 on bottled water, dispensers and other drinks over the past four years, the documents show. The lion’s share was spent on water, with $35,843 going to soft drink manufacturers Coca-Cola Amatil and Cadbury Schweppes.
Source: The Age
