The City of Guelph will begin to remove bottled water and water coolers from its offices and facilities to provide its staff and facility-users with increased access to municipal drinking water. An action plan to promote municipal drinking water in City buildings by making it more accessible was received by the Community Development and Environmental […]
Category: Water
Bottled water decision
I am sending you this email to express my delight with the city’s decision to move to ban bottled water on city premises. Excellent work! I have long thought it ridiculous that people are willing to pay money for the water that they can get out of their tap (which they already pay for). Not […]
Water issues
Guelph has recently branded itself as “The City that Makes a Difference”. In the City’s new pamphlet by that name, it makes the point that Guelph practices ‘sustainability’. The use of plastic bottled water is not a sustainable practice as one bottle of water requires a quarter of its volume in crude oil to produce […]
CA. AG Cracks Down On Nestle Bottling Plant
I thought you might be interested in reading this. JM SACRAMENTO (AP) ― Attorney General Jerry Brown on Tuesday said he will sue to block a proposed water-bottling operation in Northern California unless its effects on global warming are evaluated. Nestle Waters North America wants to pump about 200 million gallons of water a year […]
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Budget Input
I’d like to offer some input for the budgetting process. There are a lot of controversial and important projects being proposed and I’d like to see the triple-bottom-line approach taken to all of them. First, what I support: – The convent as a museum. Congrats on the success here. – A new library. – A […]
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City of Guelph 2008 Operating and Capital budgets highlights: 20 Minute bus service Funding for Hospice Wellington and Guelph General Hospital’s MRI Increased life cycle reserve
Infrastructure shortfall needs $25M injection
The following article appeared in the January 31 edition of the Guelph Mercury: The city would have to raise taxes by about 18 per cent to pay off its infrastructure gap in a single year. Of course, that would never happen. But it goes a long way toward illustrating just how big the problem is. […]
Priority Setting Process Questions and Answers
Q. How did you arrive at this list of priorities? A. The list of priorities was derived from an open review of over 200 existing, pending and new project priorities which account for approximately 10-20% of the city’s resources and capacity. The two review meetings took place in the fall. Meeting 1: October 19, 2007 […]
Ward 2 Town Hall Meeting Update
Councillor Beard and myself would like to thank all of those who attended our first Ward 2 Town Hall meeting. It was a great success with approximately 80 people in attendance. We would also like to thank our valued staff for their participation. Martin Lavictoire and Wayne Galliher presented an overview on Guelph’s water conservation […]