# WaterAid encourages diners to donate to drink tap water

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2009/03/20/wateraid-encourages-diners-donate-drink-tap-water/
- Published: 2009-03-20T22:27:11+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**WaterAid is asking restaurants to encourage their customers to donate a few pence
for the tap water they enjoy with their meal. The ‘Tap into WaterAid’ campaign is
being rolled out across the UK.**

All the money raised goes to support WaterAid’s efforts to bring clean accessible
water to millions of children around the world without it.

WaterAid is certainly appealing to a wide audience. An online survey of 2,018 people
aged 16-64 conducted by TNS for WaterAid earlier this month found that “tap water
is the preferred choice for 63% of people when they dine out”.

## Advertisement

The campaign gets underway as World Water Week begins (22-28 March 2009).

WaterAid’s Deputy CEO, Andrew Cook, said: “Water is essential for life, yet here
we are in 2009 and more than one in eight of the world’s population are without 
access to it. This, and the lack of safe sanitation, results in over 1.8 million
children dying every year from water-related diseases.

“We’re so lucky here in the UK – we just turn on a tap and our fresh water is there.
We are urging people in the UK to go and ask their favourite restaurant to give 
Tap into WaterAid a go”.

www.wateraid.org

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