Spartanburg Water celebrates Drinking Water Week
May 8, 2017
Spartanburg Water, the American Water Works Association (AWWA) and water professionals across North America kicked off Drinking Water Week with the theme “Your Water – To Know it is to Love It.”
The national focus will celebrate Drinking Water Week by recognizing the vital role water plays in our daily lives. Spartanburg Water’s focus this week is on our Choose Tap program, part of the national Way to Wellville initiative to encourage area residents to not only change the conversation about tap water, but to meet people where they are with tap water, in the community.
“You may have seen our Choose Tap bottle refill station on Morgan Square in downtown Spartanburg or heard about the refill stations we’ve installed at Spartanburg High School with help from our partners in District 7,” said Spartanburg Water CEO Sue Schneider. “Or you could be one of the more than 5,000 who have signed a Choose Tap pledge either online, at your place of business or at a community event with our Choose Tap Oasis.”
The Choose Tap Oasis is a mobile water station designed and built by Spartanburg Water team members as an inexpensive way to enjoy cold, refreshing, local tap water without having to buy bottled water. You’ll find the Oasis at events like Earth Day, the recent Criterium bike event and the upcoming Community Health Awareness Day on June 3 at Mount Moriah Baptist Church.
A majority of pre-packaged water is sold in individual bottles, and the costs quickly add up when you crunch the numbers in gallons. According to the Beverage Marketing Corporation, if you buy a gallon’s worth of bottled water in the average-sized 16.9-ounce bottles traditionally found in the marketplace, that same water costs you $7.57 per gallon. That’s 3,785 times more than you’d pay for the same amount of water from the tap in your home.
“Our Choose Tap program is the answer to the question, ‘how can I get to know and love’ tap water,” Schneider said. “It’s pretty simple, really; Choose Tap over bottled water at home, in the workplace, or wherever you are. You’ll save money, go easier on the environment and enjoy great-tasting water.”
For more information about the Choose Tap program, go to http://www.choosetapwater.org/
ABOUT SPARTANBURG WATER: Spartanburg Water, an award-winning utility, is comprised of Spartanburg Water System and Spartanburg Sanitary Sewer District. It serves a population of more than 180,000 within Spartanburg County, as well as others in parts of Greenville, Union and Cherokee counties. With the help of its dedicated team of more than 250 employees, each day it produces an average of 25 million gallons of drinking water and cleans 12 million gallons of reclaimed water for its customers and community. For more information on Spartanburg Water’s water quality efforts, visit us at spartanburgwater.org.
ABOUT DRINKING WATER WEEK: For more than 35 years, the American Water Works Association and its members have celebrated Drinking Water Week, a unique opportunity for both water professionals and the communities they serve to join together in recognizing the vital role water plays in daily lives.
