Keeper Springs™ Natural Spring Water Donates More Than $145,000 To
Waterkeeper Organizations Nationwide
DOVER, Mass., Nov. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Keeper Springs™
Natural Spring Water, which donates 100 percent of its profits to
protect America's waterways, today announced the donation of more
than $145,000 in support of local
environmental heroes. This year, Keeper Springs has added
four Waterkeeper® organizations to its donation roster, bringing to
17 the number of individual Waterkeepers supported by Keeper
Springs across the country. Keeper Springs has raised more than
$1.145 million to support America's
waterways.
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Keeper Springs donates 100 percent of its profits to the members
of its namesake – Waterkeeper® Alliance and its 17 of the 200
Waterkeepers around the world. Donations from Keeper Springs
help the people who have dedicated their lives to fight for
American's right to clean water and clean waterways.
Waterkeepers fight water pollution and the polluters themselves, by
fighting for the enforcement of clean water laws, as well as the
restoration and preservation of these precious national
assets.
"We are proud of the tireless work of the Waterkeepers, and are
thrilled to support them with additional resources to help protect
our waterways," said Robert F. Kennedy,
Jr., environmental lawyer and advocate, and co-founder of
Keeper Springs. "The donations from Keeper Springs are vital to the
individual Waterkeepers who protect and restore their watersheds
everyday."
Keeper Springs aims to increase awareness of the Waterkeepers'
mission and provide a tool – money – to help them do more for our
nation's waterways. As part of its most recent activities,
the Keeper Springs Mobile Tour made stops throughout parts of
Connecticut, Massachusetts, New
Jersey and New York to
educate consumers about the brand's commitment and to demand
recycling.
This summer, Keeper Springs was chosen by Omni Hotels &
Resorts to be part of its new "Art of Water" poolside menu program.
Omni offered Keeper Springs at 22 hotels and made a matching
donation of $5,000 to the Waterkeeper
Alliance, the global environmental movement uniting nearly 200
Waterkeeper organizations around the world and focusing citizen
advocacy on the issues that affect waterways from pollution to
climate change. The $5,000 donation will support the Waterkeeper
Alliance's Clean Water Act (CWA) 40 Initiative, an awareness
project working with Waterkeeper organizations, the general public,
and local and national decision makers regarding the important of
the CWA during the 40th anniversary of the historic
legislation becoming law.
"As we talked to people during our Northeast tour, we met with
individuals along the way who shared our concern for our waterways
and were more than willing to help by choosing Keeper Springs,"
said Chris Bartle, co-founder of
Keeper Springs. "And we are thrilled with Omni Hotels &
Resorts' donation. It's heartwarming to work with a company, which
has many properties near some of our greatest waterways, that gives
back to ensure protection and shows their commitment to
sustainability."
The funding provided by Keeper Springs is used to support the
following Waterkeepers (bold represents fist time
recipients):
- Charleston Riverkeeper (Charleston, S.C.)
- Indian Riverkeeper (St. Lucie,
Fla)
- Long Island Soundkeeper (Norwalk,
Conn.)
- St. Louis Confluence Riverkeeper (St. Louis, Mo.)
- Hudson Riverkeeper (Ossining,
N.Y)
- Buzzards Baykeeper Coalition (New
Bedford, Mass.)
- Casco Baykeeper (South Portland,
Maine)
- Massachusetts Baykeeper (Newton,
Mass.)
- NY/NJ Baykeeper (Keyport,
N.J.)
- Potomac Riverkeeper (Washington,
D.C.)
- Santa Barbara Channelkeeper (Santa
Barbara, Calif.)
- Tennessee Riverkeeper (Decatur,
Ala.)
- South River Federation (Edgewater,
Md.)
- Russian Riverkeeper (Healdsburg,
Calif.)
- Upper Watauga Riverkeeper (Boone,
N.C.)
- Colorado Riverkeeper (Moab,
Utah)
- Black Warrior Riverkeeper (Birmingham, Ala.)
Learn more about projects supported by Keeper Springs
at http://www.KeeperSprings.com.
About Keeper Springs
Founded in 1999, Keeper Springs
Natural Spring Water was launched by environmental lawyer and
advocate, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and
two friends, John Hoving and
Chris Bartle, with one mission: to
help support, protect and restore our nation's waterways by
donating 100 percent of profits to this cause. The brand Keeper
Springs is named to honor the keepers of the Waterkeeper® Alliance,
environmental heroes who fight to protect waterways all over the
world from polluters and degradation. To date, Keeper Springs is
proud to have raised more than $1.145
million to support America's waterways.
Keeper Springs uses bottles made from 50 percent recycled
PET...and is working towards a 100 percent recycled PET bottle.
Keeper Springs also supports the most comprehensive recycling
legislation and has spent over a decade helping to fight for better
regulation, tough penalties and solutions. Keeper Springs is
available at beverage retailers in many of the Eastern states, and
is expanding distribution on the West Coast. For more
information, visit http://www.KeeperSprings.com.
SOURCE Keeper Springs