Brita Sends Free Pitchers to SF City Hall to Cut Bottled Water Costs; Company Responds to San Francisco Chronicle Article Indicating The City Spends Millions on Bottled Water.

OAKLAND, Calif. -- The Brita Products Company today announced its plan to donate its signature filtered water pitchers Wa´ter pitch´er

1. A pitcher for water.
2. (Bot.) One of a family of plants having pitcher-shaped leaves. The sidesaddle flower (Sarracenia purpurea) is the type. to The Mayor's Office and City Council members and other major city departments to alleviate the city's bottled water costs.

According to according to
prep.
1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians.

2. In keeping with: according to instructions.

3. an article in today's San Francisco Chronicle The San Francisco Chronicle was founded in 1865 as The Daily Dramatic Chronicle by teenage brothers Charles de Young and Michael H. de Young.^[2] The paper grew along with San Francisco to become the largest circulation newspaper on the West Coast of the , the city of San Francisco

For the city, see San Francisco, California.

The City of San Francisco was a streamlined passenger train operated jointly by the Chicago and North Western Railway, the Southern Pacific Railroad, and the Union Pacific Railroad. has spent more than $2.3 million in taxpayers' money on bottled water since 2001. Typically Brita users, using filters to improve the taste of tap water, save approximately 80% over delivered bottled water. This could have potentially saved the city up to $1.7 million.(1)

Brita will send its pitchers to City Hall and a letter offering a donation of other Brita filtration products. The letter and free pitchers will arrive in the next 10 days.

About BRITA

The Brita Products Company, based in Oakland, California “Oakland” redirects here. For other uses, see Oakland (disambiguation).
Oakland (IPA: /ˈoʊklənd/), founded in 1852, is the eighth-largest city in the U.S. , is the leading maker of point-of-use water filtration products to improve the quality and taste of tap water. For more information on Brita and its products, contact 1-800-24-BRITA or visit www.brita.com.

(1) Based on average commercially delivered bottle water cost of $1.23 gallon (Beverage Marketing Corp., 2005)

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