It was widely reported this week that new Speaker of the House John Boehner announced plans to cut the U.S. House of Representatives office budgets. While Boehner aims to do his part to help reduce the U.S. budget deficit, DC Water aims to help him.

Many across the country expressed surprise that the House spent $190,000 on bottled water during the first quarter alone in 2010. Today, DC Water’s General Manager George S. Hawkins delivered to Speaker Boehner a letter of support and ten sample reusable water bottles, with an offer to supply each member of Congress with their own reusable water bottles.

Hawkins’ letter encourages elimination of the bottled water expenditure for environmental reasons as well. Consider this: Bottled water production and transportation in the United States uses enough oil to fuel about 1.5 million cars each year. And that plastic has to go somewhere--nearly 2.5 million tons of plastic bottles and jars were thrown away in 2008--often, it chokes our environment.

See the Letter to the Honorable John Boehner.