LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Ban bottled water at PSU

A body of students and faculty at Portland State University are fighting desperately to ban bottled water on the University’s campus as the practice of bottling and shipping water appears to be an extremely ecologically destructive and energy intensive process as well as harmful to community water supplies. We hope to achieve this ban in order to promote a policy that is more consistent with the University’s mission of Sustainability but also to challenge the grip of corporate consolidation on our campus. As an alternative, the University has installed “hydration stations,” which are filling stations for students to fill their water bottles with tap water that has been purified through reverse osmosis which tastes equally good as bottled water but comes at a fraction of the cost.

Mark Abell