Drinking water should be safe, accessible and affordable for all. Clean water is a basic human right and a public service, not a corporate commodity.

• Bottled water is not safer than tap water. In fact, the federal government requires more rigorous and frequent safety testing and monitoring of municipal drinking water.
• Bottled water is thousands of times more expensive than tap water. Compare $0.002 per gallon for most tap water to a range of $0.89 to $8.26 per gallon for bottled waters
• Bottled water hurts the environment. After millions of barrels of oil are used to produce and ship plastic water bottles, 75% of them land in the garbage or our waterways instead of the recycle bin.

As members of the Central Michigan University Take Back the Tap, we seek to make water safe, accessible, and affordable to all students on campus. We are calling on Central Michigan University continue to invest in well-maintained water fill stations in public spaces and start providing reusable water bottles for students, faculty and staff, and end the sale of bottled water on campus. By signing this petition you support our campaign and are committed to choosing reusable!