Water: Dispensers & Small Bottles

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  • Bottled & Packaged Water (One Liter or Less)

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    No one shall sell or distribute packaged drinking water in a sealed box, bag, can, glass bottle, rigid plastic bottle or other container of one liter or less. City Funds shall not be used to buy packaged water for general use. 

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Criteria for Water: Dispensers & Small Bottles

Criteria for Required products:

All city departments and agencies occupying either city or rental properties will have installed bottle-less water dispensers that utilize Hetch Hetchy supplied water per Executive Directive 07-05 Permanent Phase-Out of Bottled Water Purchases by San Francisco City and County Government.  Waivers will only be granted by the SFPUC based on legitimate engineering, health and fiscal concerns. 

Criteria for Prohibited products:

No one shall sell or distribute packaged drinking water in a sealed box, bag, can, glass bottle, rigid plastic bottle or other container of one liter or less.  City Funds shall not be used to buy packaged water for general use per the Bottled and Package Free Water Ordinance.

Last updated

Last updated: 
January 1, 2021

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Excerpt from San Francisco Environment Code:


SEC. 2405.  BARRING USE OF CITY FUNDS FOR PURCHASE OF BOTTLED WATER.
   (a)   No City officer, department, or agency (collectively, "department") shall use City Funds to purchase Bottled Water for its own general use. A department may use City Funds to purchase Bottled Water for uses specifically exempted from or allowed under this Chapter.
   (b)   It shall be City policy not to have drinking water systems in City offices or facilities that use plastic water bottles of any size where satisfactory alternatives exist and are feasible at the location under consideration. It shall further be City policy to conform drinking water systems in City offices or facilities to this goal where reasonable by the end of 2016.

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