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Aug /18/2010
Jul /29/2010
{Communities} Think Outside the Bottle
“How can water, which supposedly is held in trust by the state for the people, be sold to a foreign corporation, or any corporation, without a vote by the people?
“We soon learned that Nestlé was preying on other small towns around the country.”
--Debra Anderson, resident of McCloud, California
Across North America, the world’s largest food and beverage corporation, Nestlé, is staking claim to community water resources.
In the worst cases, Nestlé’s water grab is ruining streams, ponds, wells and aquifers. And in all cases, Nestlé’s practices are raising serious questions about who should be allowed to control water, our most essential resource, and to what end.
Will it be corporations like Nestlé or the communities that rely upon this essential resource for their health, livelihood and well being?
Stories about Nestlé's Abuses
McCloud, CA
On the night of September 29, 2003, a town official in McCloud, California slammed the gavel, and Nestlé Waters North America was the proud new owner of the town’s water for 50 years…with an option for 50 more.
Fryeburg, ME
The operations of America’s largest water bottler are not only impacting water quality but community access to drinking water at large – raising serious questions about who should be allowed to control water and to what end.
The struggle between Howard Dearborn's community and Nestlé has stirred up a brand of community antipathy that the corporation could not have anticipated from this sleepy town in southwest Maine.
Mecosta County, MI
Seven years ago, Terry Swier sat down with her neighbors at a local elementary school to discuss a proposed Nestlé water bottling plant. She could not have imagined then that seven years later she would be testifying before Congress about Nestlé’s abuses.
