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Pacific students campaign against bottled water

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on April 2, 2009 at 5:46 am

From Stockton’s Record:

Several hundred University of the Pacific students this week are pledging to give up bottled water, and a taste-test experiment on Wednesday may have converted even more to the cause.

During the noon hour, clusters of students outside the University Center were tasked with correctly judging which of three pitchers marked “A,” “B” and “C” contained bottled water, filtered water, or tap water.

For many, it was guesswork. They sipped thoughtfully, cast blank looks at their friends and finally scribbled their evaluations on slips of paper. Brandon Wong seemed confident. “I thought pitcher ‘A’ had a very distinct bottled water taste,” he said. To which his buddy, Alex Bae, turned and said, “I thought it was pitcher ‘B.’ ” They laughed. “Clearly, we have no idea,” Bae said.

Student organizers fear their friends have no idea of the environmental consequences of bottled water, including the millions of gallons of oil needed to produce the bottles, pollution from transporting them, and the waste that results if bottles aren’t properly recycled.

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April 2, 2009 · Filed Under Bottled water

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