Bottled Water

LifeSource Takes Action: Food & Water Watch

I think it’s easy to take simple things for granted like good food and clean water.  In my book that means fresh ingredients, simple preparation and a good quality water filter (as opposed to water run through a water softener - nasty). In this country, we have the freedom to choose from a constantly changing, cheap convenient smorgasbord of food and drink. Everywhere you turn, advertising reminds us that there’s something out there you just have to try.  We’re so busy thinking about what we are going to consume next that we forget to ask where does it come from and how is it made.

Is it time for you to learn more and take action?  Then you may want to start by checking out some friends of LifeSource, the good folks at Food and Water Watch who work to ensure the food, water and fish we consume is safe, accessible and sustainable. So we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, they help us take charge of where food comes from, by keeping clean, affordable, public tap water flowing freely to our homes, protecting the environmental quality of oceans, forcing government to do its job protecting citizens, and educating people about the importance of keeping shared resources under public control.

Since 2005, this non-profit has enjoyed numerous successes, including a 2008 United Nations General Assembly resolution presented by Bolivia to recognize water and sanitation as human rights, campaigns against water privatization and ocean fish farming as well as one for better milk in school lunches supported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
  
Close to my heart of course, is the ongoing Take Back the Tap campaign in which over 10,000 consumers have pledged to stop drinking bottled water. (Yes, I’m one of them!) This innovative consumer outreach effort is taking place with the assistance of campus groups in more than 70 schools across the United States who are educating college students and local restaurant owners. Thanks to this campaign, events like outdoor festivals have also stopped selling bottled water and instead are providing tap water. These movements along with other economic factors have caused bottled water sales to decline the past two years, after more than twenty years of growth.

I encourage you to spend some time on the Food and Water Watch website and if you encounter one of their young supporters out in the field, take a moment to hear what they have to say. What you learn from them may influence some of your choices at the grocery store or off the menu. Or you can take action in your own life and help to save the planet by taking back your tap.  A LifeSource Whole House Water Filter will deliver clean, healthy water to every tap in the building. The water tastes really good so it should be a pretty easy switch.

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LifeSource Takes Action: Food & Water Watch

I think it’s easy to take simple things for granted like good food and clean water.  In my book that means fresh ingredients, simple preparation and a good quality water filter (as opposed to water run through a water softener - nasty). In this country, we have the freedom to choose from a constantly changing, cheap convenient smorgasbord of food and drink. Everywhere you turn, advertising reminds us that there’s something out there you just have to try.  We’re so busy thinking about what we are going to consume next that we forget to ask where does it come from and how is it made.

Is it time for you to learn more and take action?  Then you may want to start by checking out some friends of LifeSource, the good folks at Food and Water Watch who work to ensure the food, water and fish we consume is safe, accessible and sustainable. So we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, they help us take charge of where food comes from, by keeping clean, affordable, public tap water flowing freely to our homes, protecting the environmental quality of oceans, forcing government to do its job protecting citizens, and educating people about the importance of keeping shared resources under public control.

Since 2005, this non-profit has enjoyed numerous successes, including a 2008 United Nations General Assembly resolution presented by Bolivia to recognize water and sanitation as human rights, campaigns against water privatization and ocean fish farming as well as one for better milk in school lunches supported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
  
Close to my heart of course, is the ongoing Take Back the Tap campaign in which over 10,000 consumers have pledged to stop drinking bottled water. (Yes, I’m one of them!) This innovative consumer outreach effort is taking place with the assistance of campus groups in more than 70 schools across the United States who are educating college students and local restaurant owners. Thanks to this campaign, events like outdoor festivals have also stopped selling bottled water and instead are providing tap water. These movements along with other economic factors have caused bottled water sales to decline the past two years, after more than twenty years of growth.

I encourage you to spend some time on the Food and Water Watch website and if you encounter one of their young supporters out in the field, take a moment to hear what they have to say. What you learn from them may influence some of your choices at the grocery store or off the menu. Or you can take action in your own life and help to save the planet by taking back your tap.  A LifeSource Whole House Water Filter will deliver clean, healthy water to every tap in the building. The water tastes really good so it should be a pretty easy switch.





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