San Francisco’s water bottle refilling stations are safe, experts say. So, why don’t people use them? [Video]

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — You may have seen them — public water bottle refilling stations all over San Francisco — or maybe you haven’t.

It’s free, perfectly healthy, fresh drinking water that many seem to be saying “no thanks” to. Why? The answer might surprise you.

We went looking for one of those elusive water refilling stations, located just across the street from our building along the Embarcadero.

But people walked right by it.

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We stopped one city resident to ask if he would try drinking the water out of the refilling station. “I don’t trust the water here,” said Kelly Murrary.

Here’s what the keepers of our water system, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, had to say.

“Tap water is required under state and federal guidelines to be regularly tested. We test in San Francisco almost 100,000 times per year. Bottled water is not under …