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Thanks both! Have sent off for a quote now David

Thanks for the comments. Yes, beware the transport strike next Friday affecting Vaporetto and bus services in Venice. If you want any specific information, do let me know and I am sure we can get it for you! Have fun!

David

And I thought it was only me.........

Thanks for the support! Yes, the Website is lousy but is being completely designed (re-design would be too kind!) for an end October launch. We took the decision to launch the campaign meanwhile internationally but are holding off launching to the Italian media until the new Website is complete. David

Hi, thanks for the replies. The campaign sets out very pragmatic steps to improve the situation. Firstly, we are asking that the public fountains be publicised and labelled. Tourists arrive and in many cases (i.e from USA) already mistrust tap water and in any event are oblivious to these fountains. Secondly, the fountains are in many cases very corroded. So looking dreadful and ignored by most they do not convey the impression that the water that continuously gushes forth is drinkable.The second goal is to have these replaced. There are further measures that can be taken. Public fountains in Florence and Cinque Terre provide chilled and sparkling water, and in the latter recyclable flasks are sold for Euro 1 each. Of course, a ban on plastic bottles as has happened in Cinque Terre would be great and remains a campaign goal. Making the transition to an eventual ban of plastic bottles does need to be carefully thought through, planned and costed. That is the job of city planners. Our starting point is to press for the simpler measures that can make a big dfference to the waste problem and ensure these actions are taken up by the new administration of Venice, not to plan the detail of an eventual ban.These steps are set out on our Website.The last Mayor of Venice spent money promoting the drinking of tap water to the 60,000 residents: we think that was the wrong target given the fact that Venice attracts attracts around 20 million toruists each year and that the time is right to press the new Mayor to take action. David Time for Tap Campaign  www.veniceinfosite.com

Hi, thanks for the replies. The campaign sets out very pragmatic steps to improve the situation. Firstly, we are asking that the public fountains be publicised and labelled. Tourists arrive and in many cases (i.e from USA) already mistrust tap water and in any event are oblivious to these fountains. Secondly, the fountains are in many cases very corroded. So looking dreadful and ignored by most they do not convey the impression that the water that continuously gushes forth is drinkable.The second goal is to have these replaced. There are further measures that can be taken. Public fountains in Florence and Cinque Terre provide chilled and sparkling water, and in the latter recyclable flasks are sold for Euro 1 each. Of course, a ban on plastic bottles as has happened in Cinque Terre would be great and remains a campaign goal. Making the transition to an eventual ban of plastic bottles does need to be carefully thought through, planned and costed. That is the job of city planners. Our starting point is to press for the simpler measures that can make a big dfference to the waste problem and ensure these actions are taken up by the new administration of Venice, not to plan the detail of an eventual ban.These steps are set out on our Website.The last Mayor of Venice spent money promoting the drinking of tap water to the 60,000 residents: we think that was the wrong target given the fact that Venice attracts attracts around 20 million toruists each year and that the time is right to press the new Mayor to take action. David Time for Tap Campaign  www.veniceinfosite.com

Hi, thanks for the replies. The campaign sets out very pragmatic steps to improve the situation. Firstly, we are asking that the public fountains be publicised and labelled. Tourists arrive and in many cases (i.e from USA) already mistrust tap water and in any event are oblivious to these fountains. Secondly, the fountains are in many cases very corroded. So looking dreadful and ignored by most they do not convey the impression that the water that continuously gushes forth is drinkable.The second goal is to have these replaced. There are further measures that can be taken. Public fountains in Florence and Cinque Terre provide chilled and sparkling water, and in the latter recyclable flasks are sold for Euro 1 each. Of course, a ban on plastic bottles as has happened in Cinque Terre would be great and remains a campaign goal. Making the transition to an eventual ban of plastic bottles does need to be carefully thought through, planned and costed. That is the job of city planners. Our starting point is to press for the simpler measures that can make a big dfference to the waste problem and ensure these actions are taken up by the new administration of Venice, not to plan the detail of an eventual ban.These steps are set out on our Website.The last Mayor of Venice spent money promoting the drinking of tap water to the 60,000 residents: we think that was the wrong target given the fact that Venice attracts attracts around 20 million toruists each year and that the time is right to press the new Mayor to take action. David Time for Tap Campaign  www.veniceinfosite.com

I enjoyed it immensely, and some of their other stuff too! David

Hi, On Honduras' mosquito coast I tried most things in our desperate attempts to stop being bitten by king-sized mozzies that bit thru T shirts and vicious sand flies. After Deet dissolved my watch face I stopped using that, and we made a concoction of coconut oil and some other recommended ingredients as well as eating as much garlic as possible and taking a supplement of thiamina. I'm not convinced any of this had much effect, but a Scuba diving course at least put us out of harms way! David

Thanks to all from this Forum who look at ny blog. It gets up to 70 hits a day at the moment, with around a third coming from this forum, third Facebook, and a third other sources. As usual with these things, the more hits you get, the more you get picked up by the search engines. David