Thumbs Up For Balmoral’s Free Drinking Water Stations
Christopher Walsh Tue 10 May 2022
Ahead of our return to the 153rd Balmoral Show, Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful welcomes the provision of three new drinking water stations at this year’s event.
We are echoing organisers' call for visitors to bring or borrow a reusable drinking container for the occasion, which can be filled with free filtered drinking water at various points on site and help to reduce the use of single use plastics at the event.
Alternatively, guests will have the option to buy one of the Balmoral Show’s limited-edition water bottles, which they can top up at the Show and beyond to stay hydrated.
Chris Gourley, Tackling Plastics Manager of Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful comments, “Reusable drinks bottles are a very simple initiative, but they make a tangible difference in preventing single use plastic water bottles from building up in landfill sites and, worse, our streets, rural areas and waterways. We are pleased to see that the Balmoral Show has made it easy for visitors to access sustainable drinking-water options this year.”
Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful looks forward to attending the Balmoral Show between Wednesday to Saturday, where we will be educating and informing on plastic pollution and asking attendees to sign our Plastic Promise.
We will also be inviting ticket holders to discover our other environmental themes, with members of our Climate Action, Biodiversity Recovery, Live Here Love Here and Eco-Schools teams all making the trip to offer more information about their respective programmes.
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Caption: Rhonda Geary, Operations Director, Royal Ulster Agricultural Society unveils the new filtered drinking water stations at this year’s Balmoral Show in partnership with Ulster Bank.