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Bottled Water in the News
2008
- April 16, 2008: Chico State University is taking back the tap by asking students whether the campus should stop selling bottled water. Read about our influence on this decision in the Mercury-Register.
- April 5, 2008: On April Fool's Day, we challenged people to taste the difference between tap water and bottled water. Our video, Don't Be Fooled, is featured on AlterNet.
- March 20, 2008: We're challenging college students from around the U.S. to declare their love for tap water with the I Heart Tap Water video contest. Read about it in UConn Daily Campus and The Heartland Institute.
- March 19, 2008: Our restaurants–based Take Back the Tap campaign that encourages restaurants to break the bottled water habit is featured in the California Chronicle, the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, and Examiner.com.
- March 11, 2008: In light of pharmaceuticals being found in the drinking water supply, our clean water trust fund and Take Back the Tap campaigns are featured in News-Medical.net and Environment News Service.
- March 7, 2008: Our Take Back the Tap report is featured in the DesMoinesRegister.com and Yahoo! Green.
- February 26, 2008: Our Take Back the Tap campaign is featured in the San Francisco Bay Guardian and the Los Angeles Times.
- January 23, 2008: Organizing Director Victoria Kaplan promotes taking back the tap in Mother Earth News.
2007
- November
25, 2007: We took the "Tap Water Challenge" by identifying the taste
difference between tap water and bottled water. Read about it in Inside Bay Area.
- November 12, 2007: Our plans plans to work with municipal water systems to distribute reusable bottles is featured in The New York Times.
- July 11, 2007: Our findings on bottled water and tap water are featured in CBS News, MSNBC, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the Seattle Times and The Washington Post.
- June 15, 2007: Victoria Kaplan, national organizer for the Water for
All Campaign, promotes the "quitting the bottle" –– bottled water, that
is –– movement in Radar, Palm Beach Post, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, and The New York Times.
- April 27, 2007: Read our views on bottled water in The NewStandard.
- April 19, 2007: Nestlé Waters
North America is bottling communities' spring water
without their informed consent. Read organizer Victoria Kaplan's statement about bottled water in Inter Press Service and Mail & Guardian Online.
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