Check out the highlights from the Partnership for a Healthier America Summit in 2014. Notice the various shots of the Brita® Hydration Station® kiosks that provided attendee’s with Brita® filtered drinking water while roaming the show!
On July 22, 2014 First Lady Michelle Obama joined the Partnership for a Healthier America (PHA), of which Mrs. Obama is honorary chair, to announce that seven new supporters have joined the Drink Up effort, which encourages people across the country to drink more water, more often. As part of the announcement, about three dozen children from a local YMCA and a National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA) summer camp helped build a 60-foot by 43-foot water droplet composed of 2,000 blue “Drink Up” water bottles on the South Lawn of the White House.
Haws Corporation® Strengthens Support for the Growing Drink Up Initiative with School Fundraising Program SuccessesWith organizations everywhere seeking out options to have good tasting water easily available to the public, Haws partnered with the Partnership for Healthier America’s Drink Up initiative earlier in the year to expand a program that will make Brita® filtered water bottle filling stations accessible and affordable to all schools.
As the inventor of the original Brita® Hydration Station®, a wall-mounted bottle filler providing schools and businesses with convenient access to Brita® filtered water, Haws has experienced an outpouring of interest from schools and businesses nationwide. Together with Drink Up and Nalgene®, Haws has increased awareness of their popular Fundraising Program which encourages students and groups to sell custom branded Nalgene® bottles to raise funds for their own Brita® Hydration Station®.
Since the July Drink Up announcement, numerous schools have taken advantage of the revised campaign to initiate their own Brita® Hydration Station® fundraising project, as well as raise awareness of existing bottle refill stations. Michael B. Dodge, Superintendent of Dundee Community Schools in Michigan says, “Many students and staff stop by to use the machine…(they) love it! I highly recommend the Fundraising Program.”
In addition, Haws has been actively collaborating with universities across the country to engage in their own hydration and sustainability initiatives. Georgia College, a public liberal arts university in Milledgeville, installed multiple Brita® Hydration Station’s® throughout their university housing locations. In conjunction with the College, Haws supported efforts to promote the newly installed stations and the importance of hydration, which included several table events with reusable Nalgene® bottles giveaways. “Students LOVE the bottles!” said Matthew Terry, Assistant Director at University Housing at Georgia College.
In addition, University of Nevada, Las Vegas’ (UNLV) Take Back the Tap group hosted the largest student organized sustainability festival at the end of October where they utilized Haws’ Brita® Hydration Station® mobile kiosk to promote awareness of the existing units installed throughout the campus. For additional information on the Drink Up initiative, please visit: Your Are What You Drink.
About Haws Corporation® – For more than 100 years, Haws has been committed to inventing, designing and manufacturing drinking fountains as well as standardized and customized emergency response products. With more than 8,000 distribution locations and 250 employees worldwide, we continually focus on quality, service, reliability and complete solution support. Headquartered in Sparks, Nevada, USA, Haws is globally represented with locations in Switzerland, Singapore and Brazil. For more information on Haws Corporation, please visit: www.Hawsco.com.
Check out the official Press Release
PHA Motivates Fans of Water to Drink Up!
Since the inception of the PHA’s Drink Up campaign, fans of water have eagerly posted their favorite photos with hashtag #spreadthewater. We love the participation and entertaining photos and we are thrilled at the multitude of people that Drink Up! Water is the immense resource that proves to be the best sidekick throughout the day. We have included a few of our favorite photos that have been inspired by Drink Up.
An Instagram user was thrilled to find a Brita® Hydration Station®.
Water tastes great coming out of a Nalgene® bottle!
A Haws® drinking fountain in action on Instagram.
Young fans of water with Eva Longoria at a “Water n’ Fruit Stand.”
Happy First Birthday to the Drink Up Campaign!
Today marks the one year anniversary of the Drink Up campaign that now has more than 60 companies and organizations from every water vertical and beyond sharing Drink Up’s simple message. Its message has reached hundreds of millions of people throughout social platforms, and been seen on everything from billboards, to screens in elevators and gas stations, to TV, radio and even a talking fountain.
Haws Corporation is a proud supporting partner of the Partnership for a Healthier America Drink Up campaign. Haws is one of the few manufacturing companies participating in this nationwide program. We have been “spreading the water” for over 100 years and are excited to support the one year anniversary of the Drink Up campaign. Read the official press release.
To celebrate Drink Up’s first birthday, they will be giving away Drink Up-branded goodies including glasses, reusable water bottles, T-shirts, and more in a sweepstakes which will kickoff on Friday, September 12 and run through Wednesday, September 17.
To enter, a user must either include the #spreadthewater hashtag in a tweet, or Instagram photo that wishes the Drink Up initiative a happy birthday or share one of Drink Up’s birthday posts on Facebook. Winners will be chosen at random. Click here to read the full sweepstakes rules.
