Restaurants Can Take Back the Tap
Across the country, restaurants are standing up to the bottled water industry. Restaurants are removing bottled water from their menus, serving their own sparkling or distilled water free of charge, and educating consumers about the health, environmental, and economic reasons to avoid the bottled water bandwagon.
Dear Restaurateur,
In the interest of protecting our water resources, Food & Water
Watch invites all restaurant owners to join consumers in a national
effort to kick the bottled water habit and take back the tap.
U.S. citizens are wasting billions of dollars a year on billions of gallons of bottled water, at least in part because they think it is healthier or safer than its counterpart from the tap. It is not. In fact, many bottling companies get their water straight from public water supplies, and then sell it at a price many times higher than tap water. Meanwhile, the production, transportation and consumption of the plastic bottles burns fossil fuels, generates mountains of waste and taxes our already overburdened public water systems.
In March, the city of San Francisco partnered with Food & Water Watch on the Take Back the Tap campaign that urges restaurants to hold the bottled water and, instead, serve only tap water. Now, restaurants across the country are leading the movement by pledging to eliminate bottled water from their menus.
This section of our website will explain why consumers across the country are kicking the bottled water habit and how you, as a restaurant owner, can get involved.
Thank you for your interest, and we hope that you will join us in our efforts to provide clean, affordable water for all.
Sincerely,
Wenonah Hauter
Executive Director
Food & Water Watch
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Download A Guide for Your City Everybody
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Tools for Restaurant–Goers
- Read the
Restaurant-Goers’ Guide to Taking Back the Tap. - Download the Take Back the Tap restaurant pledge to leave at your favorite restaurant.
- Download this flier and ask local restaurants to make information available to their patrons about the problems with bottled water.
- Use the Eat Well Guide Restaurant–Finder to locate and support restaurants in your area with sustainable practices.
