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Five Water Bottle Refill Stations

Committee: Environment, Health & Safety

Cost: $40,000

Location: Citywide

Short description: At a water bottle refill station you get a healthy drink for free! The Cambridge Public Health Department recommends drinking more water and less sugary drinks.

 
Boy filling his water bottle at a filling stationOutdoor water bottle filling station in a park

Long description:
Cambridge water comes from Fresh Pond to our homes, schools, and parks. It’s a clean, safe, and healthy choice. Water bottle refill stations in public places across the city encourage people to drink more water and use fewer disposable plastic bottles.

Bottle Water Infographic from CREDO:

Infographic: Bottled water consumes 2000x more energy than tap water; tap water is tested more often and held to higher safety standards than bottled water in the U.S.; 30 million bottles per day end up in landfills or the oceah. Only 5% of plastic bottles are recycled in the U.S.; 1 liter of bottled water takes 3 liters to produce; bottled water costs 10,000 times more than tap water in the U.S., more by volume than gasoline or soda

 Suggested locations: Fresh Pond, Russell Field, Haggerty School, Cambridge Common, and Donnelly Field.

Map showing proposed locations of water bottle filling stations

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