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WASH, Wisdom & Wonder: A Journey to Uganda with Frogang Foundation
This month, an unforgettable journey unfolded in Uganda as five remarkable teen girls from the Frogang Foundation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, joined Drink Local Drink Tap (DLDT) for a unique WASH (Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene) immersion experience. Led by DLDT’s Executive Director, Erin Huber Rosen, and UrbanKind Institute’s Dr. Jamil Bey, with inspiration and vision … Continued
NEWS | Lauren Rich Fine to Receive 2025 Changemaker Award at the 12th Annual Giving Splash Party
CLEVELAND, June 20, 2025– Drink Local Drink Tap, the Cleveland-based nonprofit, is proud to recognize Lauren Rich Fine with the 2025 Changemaker Award at the 12th Annual Giving Splash Party on November 6th, 2025. Each year, Drink Local Drink Tap selects an organization, company, or people who have gone above and beyond as supporters and … Continued
NEWS | Tom Skerl To Receive 2024 Changemaker Award at 11th Annual Giving Splash Party
CLEVELAND, September 12, 2024 — Drink Local Drink Tap, the Cleveland-based nonprofit, is proud to recognize Tom Skerl with the 2024 Changemaker Award at the 11th Annual Giving Splash Party on November 14th, 2024. Each year, Drink Local Drink Tap selects an organization, company, or people who have gone above and beyond as supporters and … Continued
BLOG | Imagine a Day Without Water
Imagine a Day Without Water is a National Day of Action that brings together diverse participants to highlight how water is essential, invaluable, and in need of continuous investment. For many Americans, living a day without water is an unfortunate reality—not something to be imagined. Part of the solution is sustainable, robust investment in the infrastructure … Continued
BLOG | 51st Anniversary: Passage of The EPA Clean Water Act
The Clean Water Act (CWA) establishes the basic structure for regulating discharges of pollutants into the waters of the United States and regulating quality standards for surface waters. The basis of the CWA was enacted in 1948 and was called the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, but the Act was significantly reorganized and expanded in … Continued
NEWS | Halfway to goal: Drink Local Drink Tap reaches over 50,000 people with clean water
CLEVELAND October 13, 2023 — Drink Local Drink Tap (DLDT), the Cleveland-based nonprofit, is proud to share the exciting milestone that we have officially reached 51,141 people with clean water in Uganda. This remarkable achievement was commemorated at the 10th Annual Giving Splash Party on Saturday, September 21, 2023. This milestone is halfway to reaching … Continued
Read moreBLOG | Erin’s takeaways from 2023 World Water Week In Stockholm
Erin Huber – Wednesday, August 23, 2023 Today at #WWWeek, I saw floating sanitation systems for schools, and heard from people from The Gambia, the Federal Republic of Somalia, many parts of Central and South America including the Amazon, and Australia, South Africa, and Slovenia. The highlight of my day was seeing my friend and … Continued
Read moreNEWS | Patrick Conway and Daniel Conway To Receive 2023 Changemaker Award at 10th Annual Giving Splash Party
CLEVELAND, August 17, 2023 — Drink Local Drink Tap, the Cleveland-based nonprofit, is proud to recognize Patrick Conway and Daniel Conway with the 2023 Changemaker Award at the 10th Annual Giving Splash Party on Saturday, September 21, 2023. Each year, Drink Local Drink Tap selects an organization, company, or people who have gone above and … Continued
Read moreNEWS | Drink Local Drink Tap Exceeds Half a Million Pieces of Trash Collected From Lake Erie’s Shores
CLEVELAND October 24, 2022 — Drink Local Drink Tap, the Ohio City nonprofit, is thrilled to announce that they have surpassed half a million pieces of trash picked up and disposed of from Lake Erie shores – 533,000 pieces to be more exact! Since 2010, Drink Local Drink Tap (DLDT) has hosted 127 clean-ups in neighborhoods and … Continued
Read moreNEWS | 4th – 8th Grade Students Are Invited to Celebrate World Water Day 2022 with Drink Local Drink Tap
CLEVELAND, January 24, 2022 — Drink Local Drink Tap, the Ohio City nonprofit, is proud to be partnering with the United Nations in celebrating World Water Day for the thirteenth year in a row! World Water Day (WWD) is celebrated every year on March 22nd. Starting in 1993, WWD celebratesd water and raises awareness of … Continued
Read moreBLOG | If it’s Yellow, Let it Mellow – Happy World Toilet Day!
If it’s Yellow, Let it Mellow World Toilet Day Did you know that November 19th is World Toilet Day? Let’s celebrate! Here is what you need to know about World Toilet Day- It became officially recognized November 19, 2012 as a United Nations International observance day to “inspire action to tackle the global sanitation crisis.” … Continued
NEWS | Drink Local Drink Tap Inc. Releases Teen Action Planning Book to Change the World
CLEVELAND, November 5, 2021 — Drink Local Drink Tap, the Ohio City nonprofit, is proud to announce the release of its first book, Make Waves 4 Change: Develop Your Action Plan to Change the World. This action planning book builds on the Wavemaker Curriculum Drink Local Drink Tap launched earlier this year and encourages young … Continued
BLOG | Buy Nothing New or Made Just For You
Buy Nothing New or Made Just For You Did you know that… It takes an estimated 2,700 liters of water to produce a cotton t-shirt? It’s estimated that a single piece of plastic will take 1,000 years to decompose? The book printing industry cuts down an estimated 125 million trees a year? Buying new or … Continued
BLOG | Learn and Share a Climate Change Fact Every Day
Learn and Share a Climate Change Fact Every Day You know the old saying “an apple a day keeps the doctor away.” Well have you ever heard “a facet about climate change that is learned and shared with others helps inspire change”? Ok you caught me, I just made that up. But it is true, … Continued
BLOG | An Interview with Feather Leather Designs
For this week’s blogpost, we would like to highlight a wonderful local business: Feather Leather Designs! Feather Leather Designs creates beautiful jewelry made of leather and cork that have been carefully sourced from USA suppliers. The company also offers an “Upcycled Leather” jewelry collection, called RE:PURPOSE, which utilizes leather remnants from another Cleveland-based company (and … Continued
Fast Fashion
Everyone wants to keep up with the latest fashion trends and look like the celebrities that they idolize, but what is the cost of this? As everything comes with a price, so does fashion. The fast fashion industry is booming in the US and worldwide. What is Fast Fashion? Fast fashion is clothes … Continued
Virtual 4 Miles 4 Water!
For the past two years, Four Miles for Water has looked a little bit different. While many of us have spent the better part of the last year and a half in our houses, Drink Local Drink Tap worked to provide an opportunity for us to get outside in a safe way. DLDT modified their … Continued
Donate your pocket change to make a change
Donating your monthly pocket change towards an amazing cause can truly make an impact on one person’s life. Drink Local Drink Tap is partnering with RoundUp which will allow you to donate your change on monthly credit card transactions towards clean water. How it works: RoundUp is an app that you authorize to round up … Continued
Inspiring Action- Celebrate World Water Day March 22nd!
At DLDT, we’ve been celebrating the United Nations World Water Day with youth since 2010. It is a day founded in 1993 by the United Nations and is now celebrated in every country in the world. We are now in the International Decade of Water and Sustainable Development (2018-2028). At DLDT, we are hard at … Continued
Gratitude for our Associate Board
As you read this, over a dozen volunteers serve on Drink Local Drink Tap’s Associate Board. Founded in May of 2018 and led by board member Michael Ruttinger, they have developed into a truly wonderful team. Since then, jobs have changed, babies have come, homes have been bought and wedding celebrations had, and they’ve stayed … Continued
Read moreGiving Tuesday Kicks off 10 Days of Giving with Drink Local Drink Tap
#GivingTuesday is a special day to reflect on non-profit organizations making a difference and give what you can to support their mission. At Drink Local Drink Tap, we are excited to kick off 10 days of giving sharing both accomplishments and goals with you! Over the last 10 years, we’ve done some incredible things together, … Continued
Read moreWeek 39: #Waves4Change 2020 Sustainability Challenge: No Single Use Wrapping
Why Take this Challenge? Many consider the holidays the most wonderful time of the year. Our tradition of gift wrapping also helps to make the holidays the most wasteful time of the year. Wrapping paper alone counts for a significant volume of waste during the holiday season. After that paper has been torn from the … Continued
Read moreWeek 40: #Waves4Change 2020 Sustainability Challenge: Bring Your Own Cup/Thermos to Get Coffee
Why Take this Challenge? While it may seem inconsequential to quickly grab a disposable cup, the cumulative effect of doing so day in and day out takes a tool on the environment. Production of disposable coffee cups requires the consumption of natural resources, including trees, water, and energy (which is likely heavily reliant on fossil … Continued
Read moreWeek 38: #Waves4Change 2020 Sustainability Challenge: Give a Gift that’s an Experience, Not a Thing
Why Take this Challenge? The holidays are a wonderful time for connection with family and friends. Showing your affection for others is a powerful expression but must it be in the form of a physical gift? Let’s face it – trying to read the tea leaves to guess what a friend or family member might … Continued
Read moreWorld Toilet Day – Sustainable Sanitation and Climate Change
Fact: 4.2 Billion people lack safe sanitation November 19th is World Toilet Day. A day started by the United Nations to raise awareness about global sanitation and hygiene issues. This year, we are exploring sustainable sanitation and climate change. How do they interact? How can toilets help fight climate change? To improve this crisis, Drink … Continued
Read moreWeek 37: #Waves4Change 2020 Sustainability Challenge: Plogging
Why Take this Challenge? Litter is a troubling problem. We can find it virtually anywhere – our cities, our suburbs, even our national parks. It is sickening to think that our only way to escape it’s seeming omnipresence is by penetrating to the deepest parts of the world’s uninhabited places. Even then, we may not … Continued
Read moreWeek 36: #Waves4Change 2020 Sustainability Challenge: Use Rain Barrels to Help with Water Sustainability
Why Take This Challenge? Stormwater (rain and snow) flushes material into storm drains, including trash, dirt, oil and other pollutants. Some stormwater goes to water treatment facilities and is treated and released into Lake Erie, clean and clear. However, when rains are heavy sewers can overflow, sending untreated water – including raw sewage and other … Continued
Read moreGreater Cleveland Water Equity Partners
Drink Local Drink Tap has been proud to serve with the Greater Cleveland Water Equity Partners (GCWEP) for the past 4+ years since its inception. As part of the U. S. Water Alliance’s city-focused water equity improvement efforts, Cleveland participated with six other US cities for two years in exploring water equity issues. Through this … Continued
Read moreWeek 35: #Waves4Change 2020 Sustainability Challenge: Turn Off the Lights You Don’t Need for A Week
Why Take This Challenge? Turning off lights saves energy and it also saves money. To calculate how much energy you save for every hour each light bulb in your house is switched off, first check the watt rating printed on it. If the bulb is a 60-watt bulb and it is off for one hour, … Continued
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