Schools Providing Reusable Water Bottles

Many schools across the country have begun providing incoming freshman with reusable water bottles during orientation, in order to encourage students to move away from disposable water bottles. These water bottles are either free to students, or highly subsidized.

The following schools provide free water bottles to students:

Brandeis http://www.brandeis.edu/campussustainability/recycling/waterbottle.html

Smith college http://www.smith.edu/news/2007-08/WaterBottle.php

Dickinson College http://www.aashe.org/resources/profiles/cat3_81.php

Pomona http://www.pomona.edu/sustainability/students/firstyear.shtml

University of florida http://www.aashe.org/resources/profiles/cat4_139.php

Carnegie Mellon http://www.aashe.org/resources/profiles/2009/carnegie-mellon-university

Williams College http://www.williams.edu/resources/sustainability/zilkha_initiatives.php?initiative=water_bottles

Syracuse university http://greenuniversecity.syr.edu/University%20Food%20Services.htm

The following schools subsidize the price of reusable water bottles:

Scripps http://clorg.scrippscollege.edu/store/aluminum-bottle.html

Oregon State University Think!BLUE http://gothinkblue.com/

Pacific Lutheran University ($1 each) http://sustainabilityplu.wordpress.com/2009/12/02/plu-featured-as-a-case-study-by-the-national-wildlife-foundation/ (Bottles are sold for $1 in order to increase students ownership over the bottles, in the hopes that this will increase use of reusable bottles, and discourage students wasting them)

Pacific union college

These lists aren't as big as I had initially thought they would be, however many schools that do not give free/subsidized water bottles to students are engaging in programs such as "Take Back the Tap" (http://takebackthetap.org/) in order to eliminate bottled water use on campuses.