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Free Water Bottles!
Getting one is easy...
If you can pick it up, it's yours!
To reserve your water bottle
for pick up, please email:
bellefontaine@clean.ns.ca
Clean Nova Scotia
126 Portland Street
Dartmouth, NS
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The Halifax area will be celebrating World
Oceans Day on the waterfront and wharf area immediately behind
the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic.
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Friday June 4th, 2010 |
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9:30am - 4pm |
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Maritime Museum of the Atlantic -
(waterfront area behind the museum)1675 Lower Water
Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia |
The event will proceed rain or shine. The
rain venue will be inside the small crafts room of the
Maritime Museum of the Atlantic.
In addition to the exhibits there will be a
touch tank, seafood samples, and other activities for
children, students and the general public.
Free
water bottles will be available at our booth
on World Water Day, while supplies last.
This event is organized by the
Nova Scotia Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture
For more information, visit the World Oceans Day online
at:
http://www.theoceanproject.org/ |
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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 2000 to 10000 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! Meanwhile, bottled water sales in Canada almost doubled between 2003 and 2008, growing from $809 million in 2003 to $1.6 billion in 2008.) - 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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