Supporting Community Water Rights

Access to water is in danger. One in six people on earth don't have access to enough water. That's more than one billion of us who don't have enough water to drink, bathe or cook. The United Nations tells us that we're on course for much worse. By 2025 two-thirds of the world's population will lack access to water.

In the face of this, corporations are accelerating efforts to turn water into a profit-driven commodity.

Nestlé

Across North America, Nestlé has a nasty history of interfering in local control of water—running over communities’ concerns, and the environment, to extract local spring and groundwater for bottling. Today, more and more communities are standing up and saying “our water is not for sale.”

Coke in India

There are several villages in India where people have lived for generations off the community's groundwater. The water has been a shared resource, owned by no one. But now Coke drains water from these communities by pumping it out of the ground, in some cases for 24 hours a day, seven days a week.