Admissions Tours and bottled water
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Not sure if I am addressing this question to the right forum, so please let me know if I should post this somewhere else.
Our campus admissions office offers bottled water to visitors to campus. Our student environmental club is trying to convince them to eliminate this practice. Do other campuses offer bottled water to prospective students their parents and other visitors? Have other campuses eliminated this practice, and if so, what arguements were used to convince the admissions staff?
Thanks! -KH
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You might want to tell the club to read Peter Gleick's "bottled and sold", there's lots of information that should help them convince the administration not to use bottled water. Encouraging visitors to use drinking fountains and having the tours stop near them would be a good learning opportunity for students and visitors alike in my opinion. You could even indicate all the water fountains on the campus map with a note about pounds of waste saved from the landfill, energy saved, etc by not giving away the water bottles.