You wouldn't pay for a bag of oxygen, so way pay for a bottle of water? Bottled water is between 240 and 10 000 times more expensive than tap water, allowing companies to reap huge profits for a natural resource they pay virtually nothing for.

 

The bottled-water industry actively opposes legislation aimed at improving recycling rates for plastic bottles and in some cases tests their water less frequently than public municipalities.

 

Since the campaign launch, several campuses and municipalities across Canada have taken the pledge to eliminate the sale of bottled-water. Here in Toronto, Ryerson University announced they would be phasing out the sale of bottled water over four years.

 

With the Pepsi contract expiring this year, students have a tremendous opportunity to make our campus a more sustainable and ecologically friendly place by seeking the phasing out of bottled-water sales and installing new water fountains on campus