How are you celebrating World Water Day?
Hey there! This is Kelly Barrett, communications intern here at Food & Water Watch, with an important announcement. If you haven’t yet heard of World Water Day, listen up…
March 22nd is World Water Day!
Like the rest of us at Food & Water Watch, I’m pumped about World Water Day and want you to be too. What better time to take back our tap? We are so excited, we want to hear all about what you are doing to celebrate World Water Day. There are lots of ways to get involved, so get moving and then tell us about it via Twitter, on Facebook, or in a comment on this post. Here are some ideas for getting in on the action:
- Pledge to Take Back the Tap!
- Ask Congress to Take Back the Tap.
- Join our virtual march to Take Back the Tap on Facebook (with lots of ways to take action).
- Help to host a movie screening of one of these great documentary films that focus on the world’s water crisis.
- Sign up to receive our action alerts and if you’re one of the first 25 to do so, win that nifty “Take Back the Tap” stainless steel water canteen.
- Then…after you take action, tweet us about it, write on our Facebook wall or on the event page, or leave a comment here to tell us what you’re doing.
Check out our World Water Day page for more suggestions. The sky’s the limit. Take this opportunity to stand up for tap water, like our executive director, Wenonah Hauter, did on Tuesday during the screening of Tapped on American University’s campus.
I started taking back the tap about four years ago, when I became a poor college student. Spending money on water I could get for free seemed unfathomable. I also learned drinking bottled water can actually be less safe. I never hit the bottle again. See the image to the left? It’s my Facebook profile picture currently, and also happens to be the badge of Ultimate Cool. If you have this as your profile picture, you can tell bad jokes, sleep through your alarm and show up to work late, even wear black shoes with a brown belt (not that I did any of these things today…) Come on, if you had time to find out who your celebrity doppelganger was, you have time to do this. I’ve also showed the water love on my personal blog (have a blog? Perfect! Rep the tap!), plastered the “Take Back the Tap” message on my Facebook, and plan on tweeting my face off over the next few days. I’ve decided I don’t care if this annoys my followers. After all, friends don’t let friends buy bottled water.
So how are you celebrating World Water Day?
–Kelly Barrett
Until (just now!) learning about World Water Day, I’ve been guilty of buying large bottles of sparkling bottled water, sometimes every day of the week! But between learning how unsafe this water might be for me and how harmful it is to the environment, I am definitely going to break this bad habit. Thanks so much for raising awareness!!