Municipal bottled water campaign

OPSEU leant its name to a campaign co-ordinated by the Polaris Institute to provide useful information to mayors and municipal politicians in every municipality in Ontario. Our partners in this mailout included: 

• Canadian Federation of Students
• Council of Canadians
• CUPE Ontario
• Development and Peace
• KAIROS
• Public Water Institute of U of T
• Polaris (Inside the Bottle)
• Sierra Youth Coalition
  

The bottled beverage industry has become quite aggressive in lobbying municipal politicians as more and more of them break away from bottled water, and in the case of Niagara Falls, plastic bottles altogether.  There are currently at least 13 municipalities in Ontario with a bottled water ban. 

Here is OPSEU's Bottled Water Fact Sheet.