Catholic schools to phase out bottled water
The Toronto Catholic District School Board’s (TCDSB) two Rizzos teamed up last week to get bottled water banned from separate schools across the city.
North York Trustee Maria Rizzo offered Student Trustee Natalie Rizzo (no relation) honorary credit on an unanimously passed motion aimed at eliminating bottled water from all 201 Catholic elementary and secondary schools in Toronto by September 2012 at the Wednesday, April 21 meeting of the board.
“Tap water in the City of Toronto is probably the safest water in the world, and we’re lucky that it comes out of our taps,” the elder Rizzo said. “I know that there are people who are addicted to bottled water and they think that it’s safer and cleaner, but what it does is it has enormous economical, social and environmental problems that we do not want to give over to the next generation.”
Last month, the younger Rizzo – a Grade 12 student at Cardinal Carter Academy for the Arts – helped organize a student rally at the Catholic Education Centre in honour of National Bottled Water Free Day. The nationwide event and awareness campaign, led in the TCDSB by the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace, encourages young people to take a stand in support of public water and against the privatization of water resources.
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