Has Hillary Denounced Nestle's Ability to Pump Clean Great Lakes H2O for Free?

[amborin]

By Kate Gibson MoneyWatch February 18, 2016, 2:35 PM

Flint, Michigan's unsafe water cost the most in U.S.

The heavy toll exacted on the residents of Flint, Michigan, goes beyond the potential health consequences of consuming lead-contaminated water. It turns out that households in the city paid dearly for the privilege, with the poisoned water flowing through the city's taps last year being the most costly in the nation.

Data released Tuesday found that as of January 2015, the yearly water bill for a resident of Flint came to $864.32, roughly $500 more than what the average U.S. household paid for water from other public utilities, according to Food & Water Watch. The advocacy group reviewed the 500 largest U.S. community water systems. On the other end of the spectrum, the report says household water use was most affordable in Phoenix, Arizona, where the annual tab came to $84.24.
The report found large, for-profit owned systems charge 58 percent more than large publicly owned ones, with 87 percent of U.S. water customers getting their water from the latter.

Residents of Flint, where more than 40 percent live below the poverty line, were granted some relief from the hefty water bills with a circuit court ruling in August that the city had to cut the rate it charged for water service by a third, finding a 2011 rate hike to have been illegal.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/flint-michigans-unsafe-water-cost-the-most-in-u-s/

Nestle is Pumping Millions of Gallons from the Great Lakes for Free While Flint Pays For Poison
Nathan Wellman | February 18, 2016

One of the most infuriating aspects of the Flint water crisis is that residents are not only still being charged for their poisoned water, but they’re being charged higher rates than almost anywhere in the country.

Residents continue to pay $864 a year for water that is making them sick, more than double what most Americans pay for water service. Flint’s water service charges total 7 percent of the average household income, compared to the United Nations recommendation of 3 percent.

http://usuncut.com/class-war/nestle-pumping-from-great-lakes-while-flint-pays-for-poison/

Meanwhile:

Why does it sound as if the Clinton Foundation agenda is to open up markets for multi-national corporations?

Including Nestle:

President Clinton announced an agreement between the Foundation and the Peruvian Ministry of Foreign Trade & Tourism. The partnership will invest a total of $900,000 over the next three years to train local producers to supply quality products to the regional hospitality and restaurant sector and will benefit more than 1,800 people in the region by creating jobs and increasing income opportunities.

Also in Peru, President Clinton, Frank Giustra, and Marco A. Slim joined representatives from Nestlé and Procter & Gamble to announce the companies’ pledge to distribute discounted goods through the Partnership’s developing Remote Distribution project.

The project works with local female entrepreneurs to sell hard-to-access products in their own communities.

Additionally, Nestlé and Procter & Gamble will provide nutrition and hygiene training for the entrepreneurs, enabling them to add value in the sale of these products within their communities -

See more at: https://www.clintonfoundation.org/main/clinton-foundation-blog.html/2013/05/16/president-clinton-visits-clinton-foundation-projects-in-latin-america#sthash.r3UzhVbK.dpuf

https://www.clintonfoundation.org/main/clinton-foundation-blog.html/2013/05/16/president-clinton-visits-clinton-foundation-projects-in-latin-america

[Buzz Clik]

1. Here we ago -- another hard-left bogey man that is Clinton's fault.

Other than "water" being common to both Flint and Nestle, exactly what is your point?

[amborin]

3. Nestle gets clean Great Lakes water for free, then sells it; Flint no

The investigation by the U.S. attorney's office comes more than a year after the city of more than 100,000 people began getting water from the Flint River instead of from Lake Huron via Detroit's water system. The move was announced as a temporary, cost-cutting measure until Flint could get Great Lakes water on its own, according to the class-action lawsuit.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/05/health/flint-michigan-water-investigation/

[Buzz Clik]

4. Is it your impression that Nestle is bottled untreated Great Lakes water?

Or that Flint is or has been receiving untreated water?

[hollysmom]

2. my annual bill is 80 but that is a rip off

because I use less than half the minimum purchase amount.

I don't water my lawn, ever, heh, this year I lost a bunch of it in the summer drought, but when the spring rains come, I will seed it and it will be back.

as far as Nestle is concerned,I started boycotting them in college and try not to buy anything, but they keep buying companies I like, still, I try and keep up with what I won't buy.

[HereSince1628]

5. In Milw monthy water charge is $29 but "the water bill" is over $110

It's really very common for midwestern cities to use the revenue collecting machinery of the water system to collect other revenue.

Our bills include water use, sewage us, sewage repair/maintenance, metropolitan charges for sewage holding/storage facilities (monstrously huge tunnels under the region to hold sewage from ancient systems that incorporated rainwater), fire protection and administrative fees.

Before I got into comparing water costs between cities based on bills I'd definitely want to make sure I was comparing apples with apples and oranges with oranges.

[Mufaddal]

6. If she does, her supporters will perceive it as a great decision.

If she doesn't, her supporters will also perceive it as a great decision.

I'm assuming you understand pretty well how this works by now, though.