what is take back the tap?
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What is Take back the Tap?. It is a student run campaign to ban the selling of bottled water on the AU campus. Economic Reasons. TAP water is free! An ounce of water is more expensive than an ounce of gasoline. Safety. DC water is tested 300 times per month - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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What is Take back the Tap?
It is a student run campaign to ban the selling of bottled water on the AU campus.
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Economic ReasonsTAP water is free!
An ounce of water is more expensive than an ounce of gasoline
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SafetyDC water is tested 300 times per month
Regulations are much more strict for tap water
Chemicals can leech into your water by using disposable plastic bottles
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The Food and Drug Administration regulates only the 30 to 40 percent of bottled water sold across state lines
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U.S. plastic bottle production requires more than
17 million barrels of oil, enough to fuel one million
Cars.
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About 86 percent of the empty plastic water bottles
in the United States land in the garbage instead of
being recycled
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It’s a human rights issuePut pressure on the government to provide
basic necessities, don’t outsource to corporations
Privatizing water makes it inaccessible to those who can’t afford it
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How do I get involved?We have meetings every Thursday night at
7pm in MGCSign our petitionMake the pledge to drink tap instead of
bottled water