It’s our food but…. it’s also our water

Equilibrium · Feb 6, 2011

It’s our food but…. it’s also our water that will bring us to our knees….
Communities Speak Out: Nestle, Stop Stealing Our Water | Water | AlterNet

At the forefront of these abuses is the fact that all across North America, Nestlé, the world's largest food and beverage corporation, is staking claim to community water resources.

In the days leading up to its annual shareholders' meeting, Nestlé is looking to increase the number of bottling facilities it owns, making yet another run at bottling Mt. Shasta water over community opposition, looking for new sites in New England despite the recent passage of local moratoriums on water bottling, securing loopholes in the Great Lakes Compact to continue to export water from Michigan, and expanding its Florida operation despite drought conditions.

As you'll soon hear, these water grabs are ruining streams, ponds, wells and aquifers near many of the bottling facilities. Nestlé's practices are raising serious questions about who should be allowed to control water, our most essential resource, and to what end.
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Alaskans…. did you know….
The Race to Buy Up the World's Water - Newsweek

Every year, as countries around the world struggle to meet the water needs of their citizens, 6.2 billion gallons of Sitka’s reserves go unused. That could soon change. In a few months, if all goes according to plan, 80 million gallons of Blue Lake water will be siphoned into the kind of tankers normally reserved for oil—and shipped to a bulk bottling facility near Mumbai. From there it will be dispersed among several drought-plagued cities throughout the Middle East. The project is the brainchild of two American companies. One, True Alaska Bottling, has purchased the rights to transfer 3 billion gallons of water a year from Sitka’s bountiful reserves. The other, S2C Global, is building the water-processing facility in India. If the companies succeed, they will have brought what Sitka hopes will be a $90 million industry to their city, not to mention a solution to one of the world’s most pressing climate conundrums. They will also have turned life’s most essential molecule into a global commodity.
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Everyone agrees that we are in the midst of a global freshwater crisis. Around the world, rivers, lakes, and aquifers are dwindling faster than Mother Nature can possibly replenish them; industrial and household chemicals are rapidly polluting what’s left. Meanwhile, global population is ticking skyward.
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[FONT=&quot]Has anyone thought about what happens to us once they’ve extracted and exported everything they can from our lands…. as in milked us dry? I’m thinking Americans are going to get the short end of the stick up against our “global” brethren just as soon as they’re in position to choose who receives what’s left and who goes without. Please…. maybe consider boycotting all bottled water and maybe respectfully beg local politicians to enact legislation right now to protect what water we’ve got left before Nestle comes to another one of our towns.

grunt351 · Feb 7, 2011

Something to worry about.

Brokor · Feb 7, 2011

Yup. I posted a thread about this a bit ago, it's about water and Nestle and the great lakes. Also, an episode of "Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura" covers this, and I posted that as well.

link: http://www.survivalmonkey.com/forum/general-discussion/25114-future-water-global-control.html

Very important topic. I am glad you are tracking it, Equilibrium.

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