On 9/18, small business owners in the Toledo area gathered at the Duket Architects to discuss the cost that the Toledo Water crisis is having on small business owners. At the roundtable business owners shared with Ohio State Representative Teresa Fedor why quality water was so important.
Tom Schaeffer is just one of the owners of Black Cloister, a specialty brewing company gearing up to open its doors by the end of the year. He says that without water there is no beer. “It’s our most important ingredient and so quality water is absolutely the key,” said Schaeffer.
The Ohio Sustainable Business Council is working to gather signatures to have the Maumee watershed declared as a “distressed watershed” to make sure there isn’t another water shutdown in the future. The estimated impact of the water crisis was is about $30 million based of voluntary reporting from business owners. Representative Fedor who helped facilitate conversation with OSBC warmly welcomes both comment and suggestion on how we can clean up Ohio’s largest water source and believes we need to educate in order to advocate good stewardship of water.
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