"Drink Local. Drink Tap." campaign

Sustainable Water 2019, a work group of the Sustainable Cleveland 2019 initiative, is working with local partners to kick off a grassroots campaign entitled “Drink Local. Drink Tap.” that encourages our region to recognize the abundance of clean drinking water that Lake Erie provides, and to kick the bottled water habit. The Work Group has reached out to the Waterband and the organizers of Earthfest 2010 to help promote tap water as the best choice of drinking water.

On March 22, 2011 and 2010 they celebrated local water in concert with World Water Day, a global water awareness campaign led by the United Nations, with art projects, education programs in the Cleveland schools, water film screenings, a fundraising campaign for a village in Uganda and more.

Click here get involved in the The 'Drink Local. Drink Tap.'

To get involved, contact the Sustainable Water 2019 group here.

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March 25, 2010 - 3:16pm

The Story of Bottled Water (vs. tap)

Marc Lefkowitz Says:

A spin off from her wildly popular The Story of Stuff, Annie Leonard explains why we all got so hooked on bottled water. In it, she revisits the Cleveland vs. Fiji Water epidsode – which was a brilliant consciousness raising moment.

See the City of Cleveland didn’t like being the butt of Fiji’s jokes, so they did some tests. These tests showed a bottle of Fiji water is lower quality, loses taste tests against Cleveland tap and costs thousands of times more. This story is typical of when you test bottled water against tap water. Is it cleaner? Sometime. Sometimes not.”

Watch the 8-minute The Story of Bottled Water video online.

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