VENICE, ITALY— Cardinal Angelo Scola, this city’s patriarch, is urging Catholic Venetians to give up bottled water during the Christian fasting season of Lent,He is asking them to donate the money they save to a water pipeline project in Thailand.
The mayor of Venice is backing the request. He says he now drinks only tap water and calls bottled water an unnecessary luxury, according to the report.
A local water company is donating carafes to tap water drinkers to use for storing water in the refrigerator.
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