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“I am pleased to offer my wholehearted support to this campaign to encourage Londoners to choose tap water when they are eating out. Bottled water is environmentally damaging because it causes unnecessary waste and pollution. Tap water is a cheaper option which will also help protect and preserve the environment. This competition to design a beautiful carafe for tap water is a great idea, and I urge talented designers to take part.”
Boris Johnson, Mayor of London
“Drinking tap water cuts plastic and glass waste and reduces the size of our carbon footprint. Shipping water around in bottles, sometimes over thousands of miles, is mad from an environmental point of view. In facing the pressing challenge of climate change, we need to reduce the amount of resources we use up and cut the distance that products travel. In both respects tap water is a far better choice than bottled.”
Tony Juniper, Friends of the Earth
“I am delighted to be one of the judges for the 'London on Tap' competition. I think it is an extremely important environmental issue to support tap water over ecologically damaging bottled water and we will only be serving tap water in our restaurants from now on.”
Aldo Zilli
“Londoners are traditionally rather backwards about praising the capital, but something we can be proud of is our tasty and wholesome tap water. Where better to celebrate, and promote this natural asset, than in the capital’s ever-growing restaurant scene? Harden’s is delighted to support London On Tap.”
Richard Harden, Harden’s Restaurant Guide
“Offering tap water to customers is one way that London's vital restaurant trade can offer excellent value, while minimising environmental impact. This campaign will help restaurants develop the green credentials consumers increasingly look for, and will also help generate publicity for London as a city which seeks innovative solutions to environmental sustainability.”
Colin Stanbridge, Chief Executive of the London Chamber of Commerce
“I have been drinking tap water all my life and it has never done me any harm. I can’t understand why someone would buy water from Fiji island.”
Mr R Jackson, a Thames Water customer from Twickenham