Archive for September, 2009
Nestle Coming to Most Threatened River Delta in America?
If you’ve seen FLOW or any of the other recent documentaries about water rights, you know that one of the (many) problems with bottled water is that local communities are sold on the idea of having cheaper water rates through privatized water and instead end up oftentimes without water.
While this program does not include privatizing water, it does give water right to a company, when the rest of the community is under tight water restrictions. Communities looking to fight off big water are in for a serious battle, though recently Flagstaff, AZ gave Nestle Waters the boot, which would essentially do the same thing the company is proposing in Sacramento.
Going against the flow
Sacramento News & Review (Sept. 24, 2009) - It’s been two months since Nestlé Waters North America announced they plan to build a new bottling plant in Sacramento, where they’ll suck up millions of gallons of delicious Sacramento tap water every year, in order to sell it back to us in plastic at 1,000 times the price (see “Something in the water,” SN&R Bites, July 30).