Water for all: let justice flow!
Say no to the privatization of water and sign the bottled water free zone pledge today!
Bottling and selling water creates a culture where water is considered a commodity available only to those who can afford it.
This year DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE is focusing on water because our partner organizations have been sharing with us troubling trends in their communities. Their water sources or public utilities are being bought up by private companies and are no longer affordable, or they are seeing their water sources increasingly contaminated and unsafe to drink.
This means that for many people, safe drinking water is not part of their reality. The UN estimates that 884 million people don’t have access to safe drinking water, even though access to safe water is considered a universal right.
With this campaign we want to highlight that water should never be a commodity (a product) and that ALL people have the right to have access to this essential resource.
By giving up bottled water and using tap water instead, Canadians can show strong support for water as a publicly-accessible resource that should be available worldwide.
Bottled water represents the privatization of water, where water becomes viewed as a ‘manufactured good’ rather than an essential need that must be publicly available.
In Canada, where we are fortunate enough to have access to clean drinking water, we should not have to use water bottles, which create a vast amount of waste and transform water into a consumer product.
By choosing tap water over bottled water when available, Canadians can make a gesture of solidarity with people in the Global South who are seeing their water sources being placed in the hands of private interests, who then sell water at a cost that is unreachable for many.
Say no to the privatization of water and sign the bottled water free zone pledge today!
Multimedia:
Water for All Let Justice Flow VIDEO
Action activities for your school:
Tap Water vs Bottled Water Taste Test
Selling Air: Market Bottled Air!
Skits:
Skit: Out of Order and more skits
Pledge Cards:
MORE Resources on our Water for All campaign:
Take Action! section from THINKfast! 2011
Bottled Water Factsheet-Health Impacts
Bottled Water Factsheet-Social Impacts
Bottled Water Factsheet-Environmental Impacts
Bottled Water Factsheet-Economic Impacts
Order form to receive print copies for your school or parish.
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Join us for Bottled Water Free Day 2011! |
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On March 10 2011, communities across Canada will be mobilizing to take action to ban the bottle and reclaim public water.
We’re contacting you to join the Canadian Federation of Students, the Canadian Union of Public Employees, the Sierra Youth Coalition, Development & Peace and the Polaris Institute in the countdown to Canada’s second Bottled Water Free Day!
How can you play an active role in Bottled Water Free Day?
For more information or to download campaign materials, visit www.bottledwaterfreeday.ca. If you have any questions please send an e-mail to info@bottledwaterfreeday.ca
We hope you will join us for Bottled Water Free Day 2011! |
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