SERVING WATER IN RESTAURANTS

Restaurants and other food service establishments are serving drinking water to their customers even if these customers are not asking for it. This results in wasted water when the customers will not drink it. This would also contribute to the water shortage. One solution to that problem is to prohibit restaurants and other food service establishments from serving water not unless the customers would ask for it. Encourage customers to ask for drinking water only if they really need it. I think it is part of human nature not to understand the gravity of a problem not unless they experience it themselves, or they are directly confronted by it. But the fact is, water shortage is already a serious problem in many parts of the Philippines even if it is not yet a nationally recognized issue. While it might be difficult to come up with a national law that will regulate the serving of water in restaurants, there is nothing that prevents Local Government Units (LGUs) from passing their own local ordinances that would effectively do the same thing. Perhaps this initiative could start in localities where the availability of fresh drinking water is already a challenge, where there are already clear projections that the water will run out. I think that local actions should be the responsibility of the LGUs rather than the National Government Agencies (NGAs).IKE SENERES/09088877282/01-08-2024