What is Take back the Tap?

It is a student run campaign to ban the selling of bottled water on the AU campus.

Economic ReasonsTAP water is free!

An ounce of water is more expensive than an ounce of gasoline

SafetyDC water is tested 300 times per month

Regulations are much more strict for tap water

Chemicals can leech into your water by using disposable plastic bottles

The Food and Drug Administration regulates only the 30 to 40 percent of bottled water sold across state lines

U.S. plastic bottle production requires more than

17 million barrels of oil, enough to fuel one million

Cars.

About 86 percent of the empty plastic water bottles

in the United States land in the garbage instead of

being recycled

It’s a human rights issuePut pressure on the government to provide

basic necessities, don’t outsource to corporations

Privatizing water makes it inaccessible to those who can’t afford it

How do I get involved?We have meetings every Thursday night at

7pm in MGCSign our petitionMake the pledge to drink tap instead of

bottled water