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 Skidmore College community, we seek to reduce the use of bottled water on-campus. We are calling on the Skidmore administration to invest in well-maintained water fill stations in public spaces and provide reusable water bottles for students, faculty and staff, and end the sale of bottled water on campus.