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Bottle Water Free Day is March 12, 2012
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Clean Nova Scotia
126 Portland Street
Dartmouth, NS
cns@clean.ns.ca
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Auburn Drive High School's Green Team is busy preparing for
their upcoming rally to ban bottled water in schools.
Come out, wear blue and support Auburn Drive High School's Green Team as they rally against bottled water in schools! The rally is taking place from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., Friday, February 17, 2012 at the high school. The event is free of charge and will offer a live band, games, water taste-testing and more.
Click here for more rally information.
Does your school have a Green Team? Find out how you can join Green Schools and help spread the message of sustainability!
Green Schools Nova Scotia is a program that encourages schools to create a long term vision, from which they can develop and initiate achievable sustainability goals in a school setting. By facilitating the engagement and active involvement of students and the whole school community,
Green Schools helps to educate students in eight areas of sustainability: energy, waste and water, transportation, food, school grounds, learning opportunities, procurement and operations. Green Schools is currently working with over 20 schools, involving each school board across the province and the program is still expanding. To find out how you can get involved, please contact info@greenschoolsns.ca or visit http://www.greenschoolsns.ca
Bottle Water Free Day
Monday, March 12, 2012
Green Schools Nova Scotia is funded by Efficiency Nova Scotia and
delivered by Clean Nova Scotia.
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Each tap refill saves up to 5L of water that would have been used/wasted to make 1L of bottled water. -Polaris Institute |
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Bottled water is 2,000 to 10,000 times more expensive than tap water… in most Canadian cities, where drinking water quality is strictly regulated, one can refill their glass over fifty times with tap water for less than a penny! - Polaris Institute |
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In 2007, 30% of households drank
predominantly bottled water, whether they had a municipal or private
water supply. The rest consumed water from the tap or from both the tap
and bottle. -Stats Canada |
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Over 40% of bottled water is actually filtered tap water, despite what labels may suggest. - National Geographic |
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Tap water comes from a local source while bottled water may be transported from far away, think of the emissions
and the negative carbon footprint due to unnecessary
transportation! |
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For years, some of the most popular reusable water bottles have been made from a hard, clear plastic called polycarbonate. The problem is that one of the key components of polycarbonate is the endocrine-disrupting chemical bisphenol-A (BPA). A growing body of research has shown that polycarbonate bottles can leach bisphenol-A into the liquid they contain, making the hard plastic containers toxic water bottles. –Labour Environmental Alliance Society |
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Bottled water comes in containers that either get recycled or thrown in the garbage. The goal is to reduce waste first, so by drinking tap water you are reducing this waste. |
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Bottled water plants are inspected on average once every 3 years; tap water is regulated and inspected multiple times daily. |
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Tap water is the number one source of fluoride, which helps harden teeth and prevent cavities in children. Most brands of bottled water, including those from municipal sources contain no fluoride. |
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The life cycle of the energy involved in
creating these bottles is startling. The energy and amount of oil
required to create every bottle is equal to one third of the volume of
that bottle. This energy use is exacerbated by the fact that the water is
not delivered by pipes that are already in the ground and do not require
a great deal of energy to deliver; water delivered by trucks exacerbates
the amount of carbon emissions. -Polaris Institute |
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Bottled water contributes to water
privatization which often results in access barriers for disadvantaged
populations (poor, rural, visible minorities, women and
under-represented members of society). |
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In Canada, unless bottled water is specifically labeled “spring” or “mineral” it can come from any source – there is currently no regulatory requirement that other types of bottled water declare the source of the water used for their manufacture . Over 25 % of bottled water sold in Canada is packaged tap water. |
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Studies have found that much of the bottled water for sale contains huge amounts of bacterial contaminants, and some contain organic chemicals (such as industrial solvents and chemicals leeched from plastics) and inorganic contaminants (such as arsenic). One current study found 38 pollutants in 10 of the biggest bottled water brands. |
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Bottled water in North America costs anywhere from 240 to 10,000 times more than tap water. In fact, we now are paying much more for bottled water than we are for the same amount of gasoline. |
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Because tap water and bottled water are regulated by different legislation, tap water must be tested every day – in most municipalities every four hours – yet bottled water plants are only inspected once every three years.
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