Success Stories
Day of Action for Tap Water
The University of Guelph’s student TapIN campaign held a Day of Action for Tap Water on Monday November 17 featuring a parade around campus, street theatre, live music, and a debate around bottled water use. This was a joint effort with other universities across Ontario and Prince Edward Island, as well as the Polaris Institute, Sierra Youth Coalition, and Canadian Federation of Students.
The event started with everyone gathering in front of the University Centre, with blue masks and bottles on their fingers.
As the group paraded around campus we stopped ocasionally to perform a bottled water dance. The dance was taught by a local, creative, community organization called Warmer.
We took our parade inside several buildings where bottled water is often sold and consumed.
The parade eventually found itself outside Dew Hall, home of our beloved hospitality services. Our water fairy Silvie Fojtik delivered a list of campus groups and spaces that have gone bottled water free as well as a complimentary bag of empty water bottles (she was just tired of carrying them!) to the head of hospitality David Boeckner.
Returning to the University Centre, two of our comrades performed a beautiful inactment of the natural environment. Unfortunately, someone pored a bag full of water bottles on them, sufficating this natural scene of beauty.
Finally this Day of Action ended with a bottled debate with a panel including representatives from Wellington Water Watchers, the Council of Canadians, the student body and Nestle Canada.
The University of Guelph’s student TapIN campaign held a Day of Action for Tap Water on Monday November 17 featuring a parade around campus, street theatre, live music, and a debate around bottled water use. This was a joint effort with other universities across Ontario and Prince Edward Island, as well as the Polaris Institute, Sierra Youth Coalition, and Canadian Federation of Students.
The event started with everyone gathering in front of the University Centre, with blue masks and bottles on their fingers.
As the group paraded around campus we stopped ocasionally to perform a bottled water dance. The dance was taught by a local, creative, community organization called Warmer.
We took our parade inside several buildings where bottled water is often sold and consumed.
The parade eventually found itself outside Dew Hall, home of our beloved hospitality services. Our water fairy Silvie Fojtik delivered a list of campus groups and spaces that have gone bottled water free as well as a complimentary bag of empty water bottles (she was just tired of carrying them!) to the head of hospitality David Boeckner.
Returning to the University Centre, two of our comrades performed a beautiful inactment of the natural environment. Unfortunately, someone pored a bag full of water bottles on them, sufficating this natural scene of beauty.
Finally this Day of Action ended with a bottled debate with a panel including representatives from Wellington Water Watchers, the Council of Canadians, the student body and Nestle Canada.
The event was covered by the Ontarion :
http://theontarion.ca/viewarticle.php?id_pag=2051
and the Guelph Mercury: http://news.guelphmercury.com/article/405639
O-Week Water Truck!
For “Orientation Week” at Guelph Tap-In provided clean, cold, tap water for the newly arrived students and orientation volunteers. The water truck was set up near the UC for the entire week to promote tap water and encourage it as an alternative to bottled water. The water truck garnered much attention during the week and successfully encouraged many of the students to purchase reusable containers instead of bottled water.
For “Orientation Week” at Guelph Tap-In provided clean, cold, tap water for the newly arrived students and orientation volunteers. The water truck was set up near the UC for the entire week to promote tap water and encourage it as an alternative to bottled water. The water truck garnered much attention during the week and successfully encouraged many of the students to purchase reusable containers instead of bottled water.
