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The Tap Project!

This blog is coming out of retirement to bring you exciting news (well I think it's exciting).

UNICEF New Zealand is running something called The Tap Project from 5th to 11th April 2008. ie. now!

What is it? Basically, if you rock up to one of the Tap Project participating restaurants, you'll be offered the opportunity to pay for the table water they normally serve up for free.

And that's supposed to be exciting?

Well yes...because I think a lot of the time, we just need the opportunity to give a little bit to make big change. And it's also raising awareness of the struggle so many go through on a daily basis just to get hold of something we take for granted: clean water.

It's also a good excuse to head out for dinner and celebrate living! Tell your family, tell your friends - let's make ourselves a community of people who value the gift of water, and help to make it available to others.

There's a full list of participating restaurants on the website - Wellington has the most participants thus far, beating Auckland and Christchurch hands down. w00t!

>>link to Tap Project website
>>link to participating restaurants
>>link to UNICEF New Zealand website

bottled water

Below is a link to an incredibly good article about bottled water. It's based on consumption of bottled water in the US, but I think a lot of the issues would be the same in NZ.

It's very objective, and an interesting read. Have a look:

link to Message in a Bottle article, Fast Company magazine.

You might also be interested in this New Zealand site (which is where I picked up the link):

link to Be the Change website

signed, sealed, delivered

Okay, so we took these photos a few weeks ago...I'm a little slow. But we got there :)

pics from the walk for water

Back in April, some of us went for a wee walk. Here are some pics from that day.