I'm reading this article on sfgate about San Francisco's water supply. Basically it's about how San Francisco spends the budget on bottled water when it has a supply to one of the cleanest waters in the country (Hetch-Hetchy). It's not so much the article as it is the good quotes:

Matt Dorsey, spokesman for City Attorney Dennis Herrera's office, which spent about $7,000 on bottled water last year, recently turned on a faucet in the sink in his City Hall office to show why he and his colleagues rely on bottled water.

"Do I really need to respond?" he said while a liquid as brown as a Louisiana swamp poured out of the tap. A few days later, however, the water ran crystal clear.

Bottled water is one of the few perks city government can offer its employees, Dorsey said.

"We can't compete with downtown firms with salaries or plush offices, but damn it, we provide a water cooler and free paper cups," he said.