Take back the tap!
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Take Back the Tap is an education and advocacy campaign run by Food & Water Watch to protect water resources and ensure water remains publicly managed. The campaign aims to decrease bottled water consumption and have Congress establish a clean water trust fund. Food & Water Watch is a non-profit advocacy organization that works to transform public consciousness and mobilize grassroots action for an economically and environmentally sustainable future with safe, public water. The document provides guidance for planning a campus Take Back the Tap campaign, including finding partners, setting goals, identifying targets, developing tactics like events and presentations, and ensuring tactics are effective.
Take back the tap!
- 1. Take Back the Tap! Water Bottle Campaign Leaders: Thalya Reyes Maggie Sheppard Samantha Bongiovanni
- 2. What is Take Back the Tap? Education and advocacy campaign formed by Food & Water Watch Protecting and conserving water Ensuring water management remain in the public domain Decrease consumption of bottled water Goal: Congress establishes a clean water trust fund
- 3. Who is Food & Water Watch? Non-profit advocacy organization in Washington, D.C.; offices around the country Transform public consciousness and mobilize people to take action and make a difference Working with grassroots organizations Economically and environmentally viable future in mind Safe, wholesome, humane, sustainable, and public!
- 4. Planning a Winning Campaign Find an organization to work with (check! REAL) Set a SPECIFIC goal (giving out reusable water bottles, install a water-filling station, dining services stop selling bottled water) Find allies on campus! (Geo Club, faculty, staff, students, Glassboro city council and water department) Resources needed? Identify target (Harris? RU Green? Sodexo? Rowan?)
- 5. Develop and Carry Out Tactics! Bottled water-free events Screening a film (Blue Gold, Tapped, Thirst, FLOW: For the Love of Water) Class presentations Visual artistic displays (:D) TAP WATER VS. BOTTLED WATER TASTE TEST! Must make sure tactics are successful in pressuring the intended target(s)
- 6. If They Can Do It, So Can We! California State University (Chico, CA) New York University/Sustainable NYU (New York, NY) Bowdoin College/Bowdoin Evergreen student group (Brunswick, ME) (UC-Boulder’s Take Back the Tap)
- 7. Let’s Get Out There!