Crooked Nestle contracts stealing our water.

[Metta]

Bottled water costs way more than the few bucks you pay at the store. Across the U.S., rural communities are footing the bill for the booming bottled water industry. Nestlé's advance on a small town in California is the latest example.

Across the country, multinational corporations are targeting hundreds of rural communities to gain control of their most precious resource. By strong-arming small towns with limited economic means, these corporations are part of a growing trend to privatize public water supplies for economic gain in the ballooning bottled water industry.

With sales of over $35 billion worldwide in the bottled water market, corporations are doing whatever it takes to buy up pristine springs in some of our country's most beautiful places. While the companies reap the profits, the local communities and the environment are paying the price.

One of the biggest and most voracious of the water gobblers is Nestlé, which controls one-third of the U.S. market and sells 70 different brand names -- such as Arrowhead, Calistoga, Deer Park, Perrier, Poland Spring and Ice Mountain -- which it draws from 75 springs located all over the country



http://www.alternet.org/environment/52526/?page=1

[Esra Star]

1. Once they own all the springwater, the next step in the strategy

would be to support research which found all other water was unsafe
for drinking. You can guess what will be found, the usual suspects.
Lead, pesticides, mercury etc.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Nestle?

Oh god....those corporate bastards have their dirty fingers in everything...

I try very hard not to buy their stuff, but they've bought up so many companies that it's very difficult.

Thank you for this valuable post.

K&R

[snowbear]

3. Ah man..

So no chocolate chips from them anymore!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. I haven't bought their chocolate chips....

Since the 70's!

We have unknowingly been buying their bottled water, though...

Damn....:mad:

[snowbear]

5. Fortunately.. Costco sells Ghiradelli chips..

And they're better anyway..

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. I've used their Brownie mix........

And it is out of this world wonderful!

:hi:

[NYC]

7. Nestle will pay 8.7 cents for 100,000 gallons.

...Nestlé will pay .000087 cents per gallon for the water it takes from McCloud's springs. Its website explains:

In other words, that's only 8.7 cents for 100,000 gallons...

[formercia]

8. Nestle pays me nothing

I own land that sits on top of one of the aquifers that Poland Springs draws from. The property has sunk at least 3 feet since i've owned it because of their drawing down the water table. If it were oil, the story would be different.

[rudy23]

9. They will go buy the Enron model--control the supply so you can artificially limit it.

Then you'll have a bunch of dying people crawling to you on their hands and knees, begging for water. =$$$$$$

That's exactly what they want.