[NYCkayaker] Nestles & Water
Robert Huszar
r-huszar@panix.com
Wed Jun 5 12:28:19 EDT 2013
Hi All,
While this isn't 100% water related (by what we do at nyckayaker
standards), it certainly is water related enough to make me angry. I pass
this along to those of you who have an interest in these matters. To the
rest of you, I apologize for the intrusion.
Bob Huszar
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Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2013 15:17:17 +0000
From: "Angus Wong, SumOfUs.org" <us@sumofus.org>
To: Robert Huszar <r-huszar@panix.com>
Subject: [utf-8] Nestlé
Nestle is sucking water from a watershed during drought conditions in
order to bottle and sell it. From patenting flowers to claiming water is
not a public right, Nestle is trying to commodify everything.
Tell Nestle to stop bottling from a Canadian aquifer in drought
conditions.
[1]Sign the Petition
Robert,
Nestle's Chairman and former CEO once infamously declared that "access to
water should not be a public right." And now his company is putting into
practice its belief that every resource should be commodified and sold
off. Nestle is sucking up water from a Canadian watershed during drought
conditions -- to bottle and sell it off.
Nestle has won a permit to drain an Ontario aquifer whenever it likes.
Meanwhile, the surrounding communities which rely on the aquifer have
by-laws to restrict their access to their own water during dry conditions
in the summer. This just isn't right, and groups are fighting back against
Nestle and the Ontario government office that handed out its permit in an
environmental tribunal. It shouldn't take a legal proceeding to force
Nestle to do the right thing. Let's tell Nestle that a community's access
to its own water supply is more important than any company's profits.
[2]Tell Nestle: Stop bottling Ontario's water source during drought
conditions.
Currently, Nestle has a permit through 2017 to take about 1.1 million
litres of water per day from Hillsburgh, Ontario for its bottling
operations in nearby Aberfoyle -- even during drought conditions while
there are by-laws on water use for households. SumOfUs.org is joining a
number of groups that are fighting back against Nestle.
Nestle has been in the news a lot lately for attempting to profit from our
natural resources. Last month, over 220,000 SumOfUs.org supporters signed
our petition against Nestle's greedy effort to patent the fennel flower, a
cure-all medicinal remedy for millions of people in impoverished
communities across the Middle East and Asia. Several days after we sent
out our petition, a video emerged showing Nestle's Chairman claiming that
the idea that water is a human right comes from "extremist" NGOs and that
water should have a market value. Nestle has dealt with NGOs and lost
before -- the years-long boycott over Nestle's dirty tactics to get
mothers to stop breastfeeding and use baby formula -- which resulted in
thousands of infant deaths from water-born illnesses -- was a historic
success in corporate campaigning.
Nestle's appetite to commodify water and natural remedies is a recurring
strategy by a corporation with a pattern of seeking to privatize and
profit from traditional knowledge and our natural resources. By speaking
out against the draining of our watersheds, you will be taking a stand
against Nestle's strategy to profit off everything in nature.
[3]Demand that Nestle stop commodifying everything in nature. Stop
draining Ontario's watershed to bottle water.
Thanks for all you do
Angus, Martin & the team from SumOfUs.org
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More information:
[4]Council of Canadians raises climate change and drought concerns in
Nestle case. Council of Canadians, Apr. 23rd, 2013.
[5]The Privatization of Water: Nestle Denies that Water is a Fundamental
Human Right. Global Research. Apr. 20th, 2013.
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