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Think Outside the Bottle Pledge
Because water is a human right and not a commodity to be bought and sold for profit;
Because bottled water corporations are changing the very way people think about water and undermining people's confidence in public water systems;
Because up to 40% of bottled water in the U.S. and Canada is sourced from municipal tap water;
Because some bottlers have run over communities' concerns and the environment when they extract water and build bottling plants to get local spring and ground water;
Because bottled water travels many miles from the source, results in the burning of massive amounts of fossil fuels, and contributes to the billions of plastic bottles ending up in our landfills;
Because worldwide there is a need for investments in public water systems to ensure equal access to water, a key ingredient for prosperity and health for all people; and
Because solutions to ensuring water as a fundamental human right require people acting together and standing up for public water systems,
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| Number | Date | Name | Why do you think outside the bottle? |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2687 | May 11, 2013 | Anonymous | It is a brilliant initiative and an excellent campaign, we would like to bring this initiative to India as most of the plastic from these bottles land up in our Indian backyard. We would also like to take this initiative to schools to educate the children on bottle water. |
| 2686 | April 22, 2013 | Thomas Frießnegg | Because it's important |
| 2685 | April 22, 2013 | Zaidil Firza | Free fresh water! Keep it pure. |
| 2684 | April 18, 2013 | Anonymous | Because water's in you to live. |
| 2683 | April 18, 2013 | Ellen Girerd-Barclay | Because water is water is water. A rose by any other name, etc. Corporate greed has brain-washed people to believe that water in a plastic bottle has higher value and status, resulting in pollution, wasted resources, and, eventually, great loss for all living creatures. |
| 2682 | April 17, 2013 | Sarah Eleftheratos | Because I'm a scientist who has seen both the environmental data and the anthropogenic impact of bottled water. |
| 2681 | April 17, 2013 | Jessica Olson | Nobody owns water, and those who think they do sell the water in bottles for twice the price of tap. That should happen and I won't support it. |
| 2680 | April 09, 2013 | Elizabeth Selleck | Corporations should not be allowed to sell our water to us and plastic bottles everywhere. I drink tap water! |
| 2679 | March 25, 2013 | Astrid Casadei | |
| 2678 | March 24, 2013 | Sally Vogel | For all the reasons you have given. |
| 2677 | January 24, 2013 | Anonymous | |
| 2676 | January 09, 2013 | Rebekah Gwynn | because my greatest fear is that my future children and grandchildren will never live to see the beautiful world i see when i walk by the river. The companies who make the bottles pollute the world are making this fear more and more real. I want this to stop. |
| 2675 | December 06, 2012 | Anonymous | Pretty much all of the reasons listed in the "Because" section. |
| 2674 | December 03, 2012 | tina taylor | |
| 2673 | October 05, 2012 | Shane Betz | |
| 2672 | September 20, 2012 | Anonymous | Because I can't justify the petty convenience. |
| 2671 | August 28, 2012 | Tracey Chalifour | |
| 2670 | July 30, 2012 | Because I live in a country where water is a scarce resource. | |
| 2669 | July 26, 2012 | Kathleen Brophy | Because I have seen the human consequences of water commodfication worldwide and have witnessed communities dispossessed by privatization and depletion of their water resource for bottling purposes to satisfy the appetite for those who are willing to pay for this basic natural element formerly regarded as a commons providing for basic human need and now fueling consumption and human greed. |
| 2668 | July 17, 2012 | Benjamin Weiss | Because it's not right for corporations to take what is already ours, and sell it back to us, while creating a dangers for public health, and taxing the environment unnecessarily. |
| 2667 | July 14, 2012 | Akilah Roberts | |
| 2666 | July 09, 2012 | Jennifer Burke | It's better for the environment, better for the planet and better for our wallets. Tap water is safter at a fraction of the cost! |
| 2665 | July 02, 2012 | ||
| 2664 | June 19, 2012 | Mariano Jara Melagrani | |
| 2663 | June 07, 2012 | Anonymous | Health and environmental issues. |
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