{"id":3320,"date":"2008-04-06T08:53:44","date_gmt":"2008-04-06T13:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3320"},"modified":"2008-04-06T08:53:44","modified_gmt":"2008-04-06T13:53:44","slug":"finally_locally_sourced_water_with_that_bottled_water_taste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/04\/finally_locally_sourced_water_with_that_bottled_water_taste.html","title":{"rendered":"Finally, Locally Sourced Water With That Bottled Water Taste!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The scam of bottled water just gets verticalized<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A dozen city restaurants and hotels have declared bottled water politically incorrect and are bouncing it from their premises — so get ready to pay for tap water.<\/p>\n

At the Waverly Inn, a hot spot for boldface names in Greenwich Village, bottled water is being nixed in about two months.<\/p>\n

It’s already 86’d at Il Buco, Mario Batali’s Del Posto, Gemma in the Bowery Hotel, Bobo, Gusto Organics and Broadway East.<\/p>\n

Even the Park Slope Food-Co-op will vote later this month on banning bottled water from their shelves and hawking filters and reusable thermoses instead.<\/p>\n

These green-thinking foodies are faced with the fact that it takes 41 million barrels of oil a year to make, transport and refrigerate water bottles, and that a crushing 30 million plastic water containers end up in landfills each day.<\/p>\n

But both plastic and glass bottles are going.<\/p>\n

Instead, places like The Waverly Inn will begin offering politically correct pints on the menu.<\/p>\n

“It just seems simple and painless,” said Sean MacPherson, an owner of Waverly Inn and Gemma.<\/p>\n

Waverly will serve flat tap water for free, and charge $5 per glass for its homemade, specially treated sparkling water from the tap — as MacPherson does at Gemma.<\/p>\n

“I don’t see why we wouldn’t do it,” MacPherson said. “It helps out the environment and tastes good.”<\/p>\n

At Per Se, a filtration system was installed in January. Sales of the house brand have risen while sales of bottled water — which continue for now — have dropped off.<\/p>\n

Growth of bottled-water sales was just 6 percent last year, down from 9 percent in 2006, while sales of filtration and purification systems are skyrocketing. Filter maker Brita reported double-digit sales growth last year, and competitor Natura Water’s sales surged more than 100 percent in the last six months.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

The Marriott Downtown has also jumped on the bandwagon. The hotel installed a filtration system in its Roy’s restaurant but still offers bottled water for now. By summer, the filtration system will be hotel-wide.<\/p>\n

“We still give people some choice,” said Anthony Mardach, director of Marriott’s New York restaurants. “But people love it and no one says, ‘How dare you charge me for tap water!'”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The scam of bottled water just gets verticalized: A dozen city restaurants and hotels have declared bottled water politically incorrect and are bouncing it from their premises — so get ready to pay for tap water. At the Waverly Inn, a hot spot for boldface names in Greenwich Village, bottled water is being nixed in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what_will_they_think_of_next"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}