MUN: Now Free From Bottled Water!

MEDIA ADVISORY
For Immediate Release
Friday, September 4, 2009

Memorial University to Become Bottled Water Free
Water Pledge to be officially signed at MUN orientation event

St. Johnʼs – Students will join Memorial University of Newfoundlandʼs (MUN) president pro tempore, Dr. Chris Loomis, in an event to officially sign a Water Pledge that commits the university to progressively eliminate the distribution of bottled water at all of MUNʼs campuses in the province.

MUN will be the second university in Canada to make this commitment.

In March 2009, the Students for Sustainability Coalition at MUN – a coalition consisting of studentsʼ unions and on-campus and community environmental organizations – launched a campaign calling on the university administration to improve access to public drinking water in an effort to make MUN bottled water free.

Where: MUN Field House
Date: Monday, September 7, 2009
Time: 1:45 p.m.

For more information, please contact:
Keith Dunne, Newfoundland and Labrador Organiser - 709.737.3204 (office), 709.687 5640 (cell)