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Nestle wants to bottle water from Florida’s Ginnie Springs – For Free

Nestlé Waters North America has requested a permit allowing it to pump up to 1.152 million gallons of water a day from the springs for bottling. Nestlé pays nothing for the water. A request by the Nestlé food company for a new permit to withdraw water from Ginnie Springs in Gilchrist County has led to a raft of questions from the Suwannee River Water Management District and opposition from environmentalists. Nestlé Waters North America has requested a ...[READ MORE]

A Tale of Two Cities – Documentary By The Story Of Stuff

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 A Tale of Two Cities tells the story of citizens from two very different Michigan communities—picturesque, small town Evart and gritty, industrial Flint— that have found their futures inextricably linked by a threat to the one thing that all life requires: water. In our third short documentary, we explore the growing threat of water privatization and what happens when government runs a critical function, like providing clean drinking water, as if it were a business. Go ...[READ MORE]

Nestlé's "Stolen Springs": Great news for the embattled town of Fryeburg

Source: http://storyofstuff.org/ Nestlé's "Stolen Springs": Great news for the embattled town of Fryeburg The Issue: Around the world, Nestlé is threatening local water rights. For nearly a decade, Nestlé has been attempting to strong-arm the town of Fryeburg, Maine, into a 45-year contract to control its spring water. Our response: Thousands of us spoke up to Nestlé, and hundreds of our Story Community members contributed money to the town's fight, funding water stations and branded water ...[READ MORE]

Bottled Water Comes From the Most Drought-Ridden Places in the Country

Popular brands like Aquafina and Dasani source mainly from catastrophically dry parts of the West. —By Julia Lurie | Mon Aug. 11, 2014 6:00 AM EDT Bottled-water drinkers, we have a problem: there's a good chance that your water comes from California, a state experiencing the third driest year on record. The details of where and how bottling companies get their water are often quite murky, but generally speaking, bottled water falls into two categories. The first is "spring water," or ...[READ MORE]

Nation’s Water Supply Disappearing With Obama’s Blessing

Shocking statistics surfacing about record busting, low water levels in America’s Great Lakes make no mention of the sale of fresh water supplies by private companies to China, or of President Obama’s executive order and the legal loophole allowing these sales.  “Two of the Great Lakes have hit their lowest water levels EVER RECORDED,” the US Army Corps of Engineers reported early this year. Corps measurements taken in January of 2013 “show Lake Huron and Lake Michigan have reached their lowest ...[READ MORE]

Nestlé CEO Says You Shouldn't Have the Right to Water!? Who the hell does this pompous ass think he is?

Nestlé CEO Says You Shouldn't Have the Right to Water!? I have never ever used profanity on my blog, but after seeing this video, I was absolutely appalled and quite frankly enraged at the gall of this idiot  that I could not contain my disgust at this man. Nestlé CEO Peter Brabeck, has been caught on video saying he believes water should not be a public right, that instead it should be something only the wealthy have access to! WHAT!? As Nestlé is the 27th largest company in the world and does ...[READ MORE]

Stephen Colbert Exposes Nestlé’s Disturbing Desire To Privatize Water

Stephen Colbert Exposes Nestlé’s Disturbing Desire To Privatize Water In this incredible clip, Stephen Colbert brings attention to a Nestlé chairman’s chilling comments about water not being a human right, but a commodity that should be privatized. Nestlé’s 68-year-old former CEO and current Chairman, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, says he wants to privatize the water supply because people have a sense of entitlement that causes them to waste copious amounts of water. That all sounds well and good ...[READ MORE]

Gerber "Nursery Water" is Poisoned with Fluoride – Sign This Petition

Gerber "Nursery Water" is Poisoned with Fluoride - Sign This Petition Today, I am writing another blog post as follow up on my latest post New Hampshire Governor Signs Infant Warning Bill Into Law. I have been an avid opposer of fluoride in drinking water for many years, and I am convinced as many others are that fluoride is toxic waste poison! However, it amazes me that people are still unaware or still brainwashed into believing that fluoride is "good" for them. Recently I was in a group page ...[READ MORE]

Nestlé Targets Developing Nations for Bottled Water and Infant Formula

By Darcey Rakestraw On April 23, Nestlé announced it had purchased Pfizer’s infant nutrition unit, which will strengthen their ability to sell infant formula in emerging markets, particularly in Asia. The move is not surprising, since 85 percent of Pfizer’s infant nutrition revenues came from developing countries, where Nestlé is also looking to expand its sales of bottled water. How do we know this? Nestlé has declared both its Pure Life brand of bottled water and infant formula as ...[READ MORE]

Who is Nestlé fooling? – Corporate Accountability International

Nestlé is at it again; saying one thing and doing another. Today, at its annual shareholders’ meeting, Nestlé is busy touting a rosy new community siting strategy.  Yet in Wacissa, Florida, Nestlé is set to pump an estimated 450,000 gallons each day from the pristine Wacissa River just to drive its bottled water profits. Wacissa residents are organizing to stop Nestlé.  Your support will help them ...[READ MORE]