02 may. 2025 – 08:24 hrs.
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A group of senators seek that in Congress the “Water glass law“, which seeks that restaurants deliver water for free, in view that the population consumes this liquid more.
The above based on statistics that indicate that more than 47% of people do not drink water in their day to day, and that even the consumption of soft drinks predominates. In fact, it is also indicated that 27% only take energy drinks.
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The positions against the “Water Vaso Law”
This proposal has been applauded by some parliamentarians, but also quite criticized by the restaurant association, who claim that this measure could cause a lot of water lossarguing there are people who are going to receive this glass, but who are not going to consume it, since they will continue to prefer soft or alcoholic beverages.
“As this project is written today, it seems to us that it has a high cost for restaurants, because it will force us to serve people who are not going to take it. This implies that we are also going to throw million liters of water,” he said Maximum PicalloPresident of the Chilean Association of Gastronomy.
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“We believe it is much more logical than When a client asks us water, we are forced to give it to himand with that we will be fulfilling the fundamental objective that this law has, and that is that people, maybe, consume more water and that we are part of that delivery voluntarily, “he added.
The positions in favor of the “Water Vas Law”
The senator Paulina Núñez (RN), promoter of the initiative, said that “this bill, among other objectives, what it seeks is precisely to encourage water consumption, to put aside soft drinks, the sugar that is incorporated and, of course, that as already happens in many countries, this is an obligation for the different restaurants.”
“I think it is vital to understand that access to water must be free in these places and, of course, it must be an incentive, I insist, to be able to consume this element,” he added.
