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What started out as a plan to make the Mariposa Folk Festival more environmentally friendly has boomed into a successful business.
Since making its debut at the 2009 festival, Paul Baker’s hydration stations have been set up at major events in both Canada and the United States.
Event Water Solutions just got back from Austin City Limits, another great festival put on by C3 Presents. About 75,000 people per day gathered at the beautiful Zilker Park in Austin, Texas to enjoy 130 musical acts. With blue skies and temperatures over 30 degrees all three days, our eight water stations were on the go non stop.
In total we saved about 223,700 plastic water bottles from use. We were impressed with the amount of people who brought their own refillable bottles -Â way to go ACL attendees!
Austin City Limits is clearly committed to being one of the most environmentally friendly festivals out there. It was a pleasure to be a part of their greening initiatives.
Read more about the event:
Event Water Solutions just returned from Lollapalooza 
about a week ago and it was a huge success.
The festival took place over three days at Grant Park, Chicago. The festival was so well run, and the musical acts were stellar.
All three days were sweltering hot, and we’ve never felt so much appreciation from festival attendees. We had nine stations set up, and the water never stopped flowing. By the end of the festival, we poured 102,100 liters of water, resulting in 204,200 water bottles saved!
We’d like to thank our staff, and all the local volunteers who worked so hard for so many hours. Special thanks to C3 Presents for bringing us on board and being so helpful throughout the event.
Hope to be back next year!
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Below are links to articles that refer to EWS participation at the event.
http://venuestoday.wordpress.com/2010/08/13/lollapalooza-gets-green-with-gaga/
http://metroplanning.org/news-events/blog-post/5955
http://www.spinner.ca/2010/08/07/b-o-b-wavves-lollapalooza-2010/
Event Water Solutions is thrilled to be at Lollapalooza, the iconic three day music festival 
taking place at Grant Park, Chicago.
We have 10 water stations set up throughout the grounds, and we’ll be providing water to 80,000 people per day.
Should be an amazing weekend.  http://www.lollapalooza.com/
With the help of Event Water Solutions’ Eauasis water stations the “National Capital Commission took several steps to make Canada Day environmentally friendly this year” according to the CBC News. They went on to say, “this year there were no Styrofoam cups or bottled water. Instead, free tap water was available, and filled the equivalent of 32,000 water bottles.”
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2010/07/02/green-canadaday.html#ixzz0spcR69Xx
This year, HOPE Volleyball SummerFest 2010, with the support of The Ottawa Group of Sierra Club Canada, has secured Event Water Solutions to help in our steps towards a greener event! On Saturday, July 10th at Mooney’s Bay,  this partnership will provide HOPE with a means to completely eliminate the need for plastic water bottles and provide refreshing and great tasting drinking water for our participants.
How will it work for the festival and attendees?
The “Eauasis” is a stainless steel water station with an integrated filtration system that can be hooked up to any municipal water source. At each of the Event Water Solutions water stations, the water is filtered with a state of the art filtration system, including ultraviolet sterilization and dispensed to our festival attendees and participants.
The Green Results!
HOPE’s partnership with The Sierra Club of Ottawa, aids their efforts in the education of Ottawans about protecting our environment, and helps HOPE & Event Water Solutions provide drinking water for event patrons without the plastic water bottles littering our site!
Be sure to bring your REUSEABLE WATER CONTAINERS and fill up at either Event Water Solutions two stations.
For more information, please contact:
Holly Tarrison, Executive Director of HOPE
hollytarrison@hopehelps.com 613-224-9070
HOPE
Hope is a volunteer-driven, not-for-profit organization best known for its annual beach volleyball tournament held at Mooney’s Bay. HOPE engages in community fundraising and has raised millions in support of local charities.
The Sierra Club of Ottawa
The Ottawa Group of Sierra Club Canada are dedicated to the protection of the environment and to educating Ottawans about the environment around our city.
The Sierra Club of Ottawa are a proud sponsor our efforts to eliminate our plastic water bottles.
We have a busy summer planned with multiple events. If you are attending any of these venues please stop by and see us in action. Have a great summer!
July 1 – Canada Day on Parliament Hill
July 9-11 – Mariposa Folk Festival
July 10 – Hope Volleyball Summerfest in Ottawa
Aug 15 – Burlington Children’s Festival
Aug 20-22 – Ottawa Folk Festival
Aug 27-29 – Owen Sound Folk Festival
Today MP Bruce Stanton visited Event Water Solutions in Orillia, Ontario offering congratulations to Paul Baker being one of two North Simcoe business receiving local stimulus funds from the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario).
Mr. Stanton is stated he is “pleased that this funding will allow businesses in North Simcoe to develop and become more competitive and secure new market opportunities.”
Paul Baker states, “We are thrilled to be receiving this funding. Event Water Solutions will use this investment to further our business vision and environmental goals of eliminating the use of plastic water bottles at festivals and events.”
The Event Water Solutions’ water station created for Mariposa Folk Festival will be providing refreshment in Ottawa for Canada Day as reported by the Orillia Packet & Times.
http://www.orilliapacket.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2543345
Paul Baker, Owner
Our new website is still under construction but in the meantime have a look around and let us know what you think.
Paul