When I moved to Cornell, I opted not to drink the tap water out of habit. Since learning of the excellent water quality here, however, I have refrained from purchasing single-use disposable water bottles. Moving to Cornell is a chance for people like me and the other 15,000 undergraduate students to change their behavior. It s a chance for us to switch on the tap. If you’re an undergraduate: Safe, clean tap water is mere moments away from your dorm room.
community. but an environmental group food and water watch is fighting nestly here in oregon and elsewhere. they have a national campaign against the 10.5 billion-dollar bottled water industry called take back the tap. they oppose privatizing public water. they say only a quarter of the plastic bottles are recycled. that plastic will continue to exist in the environment forever. for a very long time. and the vast majority of bottles in this country just get thrown away. and, of course, there is the impact on the fish at a hatchery fed by the spring. biologists are testing whether the city s well water is suitable for raising fish. those test results will likely determine the fate of that nestle bottling plant. trace? trace: dan, thank you. the job hunt goes local on foxnews.com. head to our home page and click on job hunt. on the top of the page you will
the environmentalists are going after this whole industry with a campaign called take back the tap. 8.7 billion gallons of spring water were sold in the u.s. in 2008. they say bottles last forever in landfills, only about a quarter of the total produced are recycled. this plant would be right there in the columbia river gorge a very scenic area, big tourist attraction in the summer. the opposition is coming mainly from portland which is about a 45-minute drive away, but there is at least one local who agrees with them. this is beautiful. there s only one yellowstone, there s only one grand canyon, there s really only one columbia river gorge. there s a reason this was set aside to protect, and it should be protected. reporter: but as far as the public opinion in cascade locks, she is pretty much alone. most people in town say they want the plant, they want the jobs. jane: what kind of boost would it give the economy potentially? reporter: well, it would be a