The College Fix

It started with a simple idea — UC Berkeley senior Rose Whitson wanted to end the sale of bottled water on campus.

So Whitson, director of the ASUC Sustainability Team, organized a group of students last semester with the sole purpose of beginning a petition to do just that by gathering enough support to get an initiative on the ballot for this year’s ASUC elections that would call for the campus to end its sale of bottled water.

“The fact that a UC school is saying that they don’t want to buy bottled water is a big thing, especially in mobilizing other campuses across the nation to stop buying bottled water,” she said.

But getting the petition on the ballot may prove harder than originally expected for Whitson and her peers due to unclear requirements in the student government’s bylaws.

Over the past few years, colleges across the nation – including Washington University in St. Louis and Seattle University – have increasingly placed restrictions on bottled water in an effort to reduce the plastic waste generated on campuses and lessen the environmental impact of plastic water bottle production.

Read the full story at the Daily Californian.

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