Food & Water Watch and Riverkeeper Launch NYC Restaurant Campaign to Take Back the Tap
July 29, 2008 Food & Water Watch and Riverkeeper will kick off their New York City Take Back the Tap restaurant campaign, calling on New York restaurants to support New York’s world famous tap water by taking bottled water off their menus.
Chefs Urge Restaurants to Give Up Bottled Water
What:
Food & Water Watch and Riverkeeper will kick off their New York City Take Back the Tap restaurant campaign, calling on New York restaurants to support New York’s world-famous tap water by taking bottled water off their menus.
Who:
Wenonah Hauter, Food & Water Watch Executive Director
Alex Matthiessen, Hudson Riverkeeper and President
Sean McPherson, owner, Gemma
When: 11am on July 29, 2008
Where: Gemma, The Bowery Hotel, 335 Bowery, New York, NY 10003
The campaign joins forces with city government and prominent restaurateurs to highlight the social, economic, and environmental problems with bottled water, the need for increased funding for public tap water, and the importance of source water protection.
Please visit www.takebackthetap.org/ny for more information on the campaign.Food & Water Watch is a nonprofit consumer rights organization based in Washington, D.C. that challenges the corporate control and abuse of our food and water resources. Food & Water Watch is asking restaurants across the country to take back the tap. Visit www.foodandwaterwatch.org.
Riverkeeper’s mission is to protect the ecological integrity of the Hudson River and its tributaries, and to safeguard the drinking water supply of New York City and the lower Hudson Valley. Visit www.riverkeeper.org.
