On World Water Day March 22, 2009, I pledged to make a Toast to Public Water!
On World Water Day 2009, I’d like to propose a toast to the municipal tap water we’re drinking here today, as well as to public water systems across Canada and around the world. Please raise your glasses.

With this toast, I choose to drink public water over purchasing bottled water.
I choose to drink from the tap because public water is clean, accessible and tastes great!
I choose to drink from the tap because bottled water undermines public water systems.
I choose to drink from the tap because bottled water costs more, is much less regulated, consumes more energy than tap water.
Too many people in Canada and around the world do not have access to safe drinking water:
because 1.1 billion people around the world are denied access to clean water….
because 2005 – 2015 is the United Nations international decade for action on water, called Water for Life…
because many First Nations communities do not have access to safe drinking water across Canada….
because Canadian water fountains are being decommissioned and new ones are not being built…
I therefore choose to drink from the tap to demonstrate my commitment to public water as a human right.
We raise our glasses to public water and the back-to-the-tap movement.
To tap water for all!
I urge all of you to make this toast and make the commitment to tap water and banish bottled water from your life.

Cheers!

Greg Boyle
LUSU Sustainability Commissioner