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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 Reasons TAP water is free! An ounce of water is more expensive than an ounce of gasoline
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Safety DC 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 issue Put 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 MGC Sign our petition Make the pledge to drink tap instead of bottled water
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