Kick the bottle ACTION

One way you know your advocacay and organizing is working – when companies try to flip your actions! For Bottled Water Free Day – where WE fight for water justice and pledge to tap back into the tap… some companies are taking advantage and giving away free bottled water.

Cedar Springs and the Canadian Bottled Water Association are doing an industry knock-off on BWFD. See: www.bottledwaterfreeday.com (our is bottledwaterfreeday.ca) and their press release that went out this morning: http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/March2011/09/c9351.html

There are over 120 events across the country taking place around ending the privatization of water for Bottled Water Free Day and industry is feeling the pressure. Bottled water company Cedar Springs and the Canadian Bottled Water Association are at it again with bottled water giveaways on Bottled Water Free Day. Last year we shut down their phone lines—but apparently they didn’t get our message!

Flood Cedar Springs Lines–Call today!

Flip the TAP to the bottled water industry! Bottled water company Cedar Springs and the Canadian Bottled Water Association are at it again with bottled water giveaways on Bottled Water Free Day 2010. Last year we shut down their phone lines—but apparently they didn’t get our message! Call Cedar Springs today and tell them you back the TAP! Call: (416) 798-7675 

 Email Action: http://www.insidethebottle.org/send-message-cedar-springs-march-10th

Suggested script:

“On Canada’s Second Bottled Water Free Day I am working to kick the bottle and back the tap! The knockoff website that Cedar Springs has produced to promote giving away free bottled water is a desperate effort on behalf of your organization. It is clear that your company and all bottled water companies are feeling the heat as education and action around the negative environmental, health and social impacts of bottled water is growing! I choose NOT to drink bottled water”

Thanks for chipping in – all our efforts are working!

Genevieve Gallant for Development and Peace, part of Bottled Water Free Day 2011!