Help Take Back the Tap on your campus or in your community! Whether you’re encouraging your neighbors to kick the bottled water habit, convincing your administration to take bottled water off campus, or asking local restaurants serve only tap water, you can use these materials and resources to make your effort a success.

Take Back the Tap Materials

• Download this flier discussing the  problems with bottled water for distribution to restaurants, local business owners, city governments, and campus organizations.
• Draft a student body resolution banning bottled water and promoting tap water on your campus. Coming soon.
• Invite your local restaurants to participate. Draft a letter asking your favorite restaurants to sign the Take Back the Tap restaurant pledge and stop serving bottled water. Coming soon.
• Download the  Take Back the Tap restaurant pledge.
• Restaurant Guide. Coming soon.

Organizing Resources

• A Guide to Establishing a Sustainable Food Purchasing Policy. Use this manual, developed by AASHE and Food Alliance, to encourage sustainable dining services at your university, college, hospital or other institution.
• The Student PIRGs’ Activist Toolkit. Consult this “Crash Course in Effective Citizenship” for techniques in volunteer recruitment, leadership development, and grassroots organizing.
• Use this  Midwest Academy strategy chart template to plan your Take Back the Tap campaign.
• Meeting Facilitation Techniques. Use this handout developed by the Georgetown Solidarity Committee for running more effective meetings.

Media Resources

• How to Write a Great Press Release
• Use the SPIN Project’s Communications Plan Generator to create a media campaign plan, then consult SPIN tutorials on writing for communications, building relationships with reporters, and determining your target audience.
• Use this media tool to locate media outlets in your area.

More Organizations Working on Sustainable Food and Water

• Alliance for Democracy
• Corporate Accountability International
• Council of Canadians
• Global Exchange
• Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
• Polaris Institute
• Real Food Challenge
• Sustainable Table
• Student Campaign for Child Survival
• Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom