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Hunter College Tap Water Challenge WHEN: Tuesday March 18 and Wednesday March 19 from 11:30-3pm in front of the Cafeteria in Hunter West (3rd floor) 68th Street and Lexington Ave, NYC. There will be a movie showing, Running Dry, at Brookdale on Tuesday at 8pm. And Thursday, March 20 in the lobby at Brookdale from 11:30-3pm. (425 E 25th St between 1st Ave and the FDR, NYC) WHAT: Bottled water corporations are changing the way people think about water. Though many bottled water brands come from the same source as public tap water, they are marketed as somehow more pure. Corporations like Pepsi, Coke, and Nestle should not be bottling a public resource and human right and selling it back to people for profit. Hunter College students and faculty are organizing a Tap Water Challenge, daring citizens and students to put on blindfolds and try to tell the difference between tap water, Coke’s Dasani, and Pepsi’s Aquafina. Nation-wide tap water challenges have been taking place throughout the last six months. Students, faculty and staff passing the cafeteria (or in the lobby at the Brookdale campus) will be blindfolded and then asked to sample four cups of water. Two cups will contain tap water drawn from different campus water fountains and bathrooms and two will contain brand-name bottled water. The events are part of a campaign to improve health and decrease the carbon footprint of Hunter. Other ideas welcome! Volunteers needed! CONTACT: Barbara Berney if you want to attend or to volunteer for the event.
We're coming to a city near you!
The campaign is heating up! This year we are building on our recent victories and are stepping up the Think Outside the Bottle campaign with organizers on the ground in cities across the U.S. We are working with our members, community activists, students and faith communities to step up the pressure on Coke, Nestlé and Pepsi to meet our Think Outside the Bottle Demands and to build support for strong public water systems. We'll organize numerous campaign actions, such as our famous Tap Water Challenge, to expose the realities of the bottled water industry and challenge corporate control of water.
If you would like to get involved with the campaign or want our organizers to come to your school, community or place of worship contact us at activistsnetwork@StopCorporateAbuse.org.
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