FSU’s World Water Day event was put on by Take Back the Tap (TBTT).
The FSU campaign is housed under Sustainable Campus and aims to transform FSU into a “bottled water free campus.” The event featured different games that focused on environmental issues as well as visiting organizations centered around environmentalism.
In addition to promoting Tallahassee water, the water wagon was also distributing reusable City of Tallahassee water bottles.
In addition, the event featured two game stations that tested attendee’s knowledge of conservation and environmentalism.
She was overseeing the recycling game at the World Water Day event and commented on the way in which recycling and water conservation intertwine.
“Recycling ties into World Water Day because it just helps make the world, as cheesy as it sounds, a better place,” Perez said.
World Water Day is more important than ever for places like Cape Town, South Africa.
“It’s important in general because, I mean, the world has a plastic problem,” Oberlink said.
Plastic water bottles are also even further unregulated than tap water.” TBTT received over 300 pledges to stop using plastic water bottles at the World Water Day event.
On top of that, TBTT is trying to get the university to fund reusable water bottles to give out at campus tours/orientations as opposed to the plastic bottles that visitors currently receive when on campus.