Join the campaign for bottled water free campuses and communities!

• Promote campus or community water fountains! Sticker/Poster/Chalk directions to the nearest water fountain. On vending machines, tape maps of water fountain locations.
• Create bottled water free zones! Promote places on campus where everyone will commit to drinking public tap water.
• Pledge to drink water from the tap! Host an event where individuals can make a “toast to the TAP” and take the pledge!
• Organize a public forum or photo exposition about access to water, pressures on local watersheds and/or the corporatization of water services.  Challenge municipal councillors to pledge to end bottled water consumption on city property. Encourage unionized workplaces, schools and other public institutions to become bottled water free.
• Host a screening about struggles over water justice-in Canada and abroad.
  • Some Film Ideas: Flow <www.flowthefilm.com>, Blue Gold: World Water Wars <www.bluegold-worldwaterwars.com>, The Water Front <www.waterfrontmovie.com>, and TAPPED <http://www.tappedthemovie.com/>
• Distribute tap water in public spaces or find out if your municipality providess free water tanker/trailers for special events by contacting your local special events or water department.
• Trade bottled water for reusable bottles. Reusable bottles make a great giveaway and can be handed to students who have a bottle of water. Consider handing out a map of water fountains on and around campus/residence etc.
• Construct a tower of consumption using empty water bottles from the garbage and recycling, to demonstrate just how much plastic gets tossed in the trash or ends up as litter on the ground. Add facts about bottled water and set up the tower in a public space.
• Conduct a water fountain audit and publish the results. Compare working and clean fountains to broken ones and to vending machines.
• As part of an ongoing campaign, lobby your administration to end the sale and distribution of bottled water (if they haven’t done so already) at institution events. Work with conference services to identify ways to provide public tap water, this way future indoor events can be entirely bottled water free.