Blue Community Campaign

2009/05/05

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The Council of Canadians is fighting to try and make it so clean, safe drinking water becomes a human right.
Kick starting a national campaign to make communities become a Blue Community---the council wants municipalities to stop the sale of bottled water in public spaces, and to resist privatization.
Spokesperson Meer Karunananthan tells CHSJ News, there are 41 bottled water bans across the country, and not drinking bottled water is a simple step residents can do to make their community more blue.

Karunananthan says residents need to fight to keep their drinking water out of the hands of privatized companies, and one way to do so is to encourage city council to refuse public private partnerships, and to ban the sale of bottled water in schools, hospitals, and other public spaces.

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