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ACTION ALERT: Tell London City Council You Want to Keep Bottled Water Banned

5 Things You Can Do to Ban Bottled Water » Encourage your local schools, municipalities, and other public institutions to ban the sale of bottled water on their premises.

Bottled Water Factsheet » Five reasons to ban bottled water.

Ontario Bottled Water Tour »
The Council of Canadians and CUPE Ontario toured 21 Ontario communities to present Unbottle it . Tap into public drinking water.

Spinning the bottle » Tackling industry spin on bottled water

Talking Points on Fluoride »
"Fluoride-free" does not make bottled water safer than tap water

Unfluoridate It! » Stopping the fluoridation of drinking water and sample resolution

Nova Scotia Bottled Water Campaign »
A broad-based coalition in Nova Scotia.

Resources » Guides and previous submissions to help your local campaign.

The Unbottle Map » Jurisdictions and institutions that have implemented, or are considering, bottled water bans.

Bottle water in our schools

Across the country, concerned citizens are visiting their municipal councils and local school boards to say that bottled water is an unnecessary drain on the environment and on budgets.

Canada has one of the best drinking water systems in the world, but the bottled water industry has worked hard to undermine our faith in public water. The industry sells water – what should be a shared public resource – for huge profits. Producing and transporting bottled water requires large amounts of fossil fuels, and plastic water bottles continue to end up by the millions in local landfills. We are not immune to the growing threats of water scarcity in Canada. Twenty per cent of Canadian municipalities have faced shortages in recent years. Bottled water production places huge stresses on increasingly scarce water resources.

But communities and citizens are starting to fight back. Here are some of the examples of school boards, cities and companies across North America that are saying “no” to bottled water »

 

       
 

Bottled Water Headlines:

For more information, please contact: Meera Karunananthan, national water campaigner for the Council of Canadians at: 613.233. 4487 ext 234 or by email at meera@canadians.org; www.canadians.org

 

   
     
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