当伯明翰水务局（BWWB）开始考虑装瓶的选择时 在拥有水源的情况下，董事会聘请马尔科姆·皮尔尼帮助评估其生存能力并确定 BWWB市政瓶装水运营的适当理由（如有）。因此 我们开展了一项调查，从大约20家其他有过类似经历的公用事业公司收集信息 要么是之前研究过的瓶装城市水，要么是目前从事这类研究的公司 装瓶操作。该调查旨在尽可能全面，包括 这些问题包括（除其他外）:公用事业公司瓶装水的主要动机；成本（资本和成本） 操作）；产品分销和销售（如适用）； 治疗产品标签；内部 与外包装瓶相比；项目交付方法（即设计-投标-建造、设计-建造、设计-建造）- 操作等）；以及州和联邦法规。 调查中最意外的发现之一是，联系了许多公用事业公司 不仅对调查结果本身非常感兴趣，而且还联系了一些 另一家独立调查了公用事业公司，以收集有关该地区市政瓶装水的信息 类似的方式，尽管是通过一个不那么全面的过程。他们的兴趣特别高 那些仍处于研究阶段并考虑了优点和缺点的实用程序 装瓶市政用水。本文介绍了这项调查的结果 它所揭示的见解可以作为其他公用事业公司的资源，这些公用事业公司可能正在权衡未来 市政瓶装水运营的利弊。本文讨论了调查中最重要的发现，这些发现分为五类，包括: 市政瓶装水项目的目的； 拥有装瓶设施与外包； 瓶装水处理工艺； 生产的瓶子尺寸；和 费用

When the Birmingham Water Works Board (BWWB) began to consider the option of bottling its own water, the Board retained Malcolm Pirnie to help assess the viability and determine the appropriate justification, if any, for a BWWB municipal bottled water operation. Consequently, a survey was developed to gather information from approximately 20 other utilities that had either previously studied bottling municipal water or which were currently engaged in such a bottling operation. The survey was designed to be as comprehensive as possible and included such issues as (among others): the utility's primary motive for bottling water; cost (capital and operating); product distribution and sales (if applicable); treatment; product labeling; in-house vs. outsourced bottling; project delivery method (i.e., design-bid-build, design-build, design-build- operate, etc.); and state and federal regulations. One of the most unexpected finds of the survey was that a number of the utilities contacted were not only very interested in the results of the survey themselves, but had also contacted some of the other surveyed utilities independently to gather information about municipal bottled water in a similar manner, albeit via a less comprehensive process. Interest was particularly high among those utilities that were still in the study phase and considering the advantages and disadvantages of bottling municipal water. This paper presents the results of this survey and the insights it revealed to serve as a resource for other utilities that might be weighing the pros and cons of municipal bottled water operations. The paper discusses the most significant findings of the survey that were grouped into five categories including: purpose of the Municipal Bottled Water Program; owning bottling facilities vs. outsourcing; bottled water treatment processes; sizes of bottles produced; and, cost.