Nestle wants our public drinking water aquifers. There is severe drought throughout much of the American West. States in that region of the country are languishing from drought or near drought conditions, and the public drinking water is low. The State of Oregon reports that nineteen counties have declared a state of emergency.
Now, Nestle is trying to buy up rights to spring water in that state and to build a bottling plant on the Columbia River. This proposal, if finalized, would allow a private corporation to ration back this water for profits. As if screwing California wasn’t enough for this capitalist giant. Now, they want to inject their greed on the beautiful state of Oregon.
Many Oregon residents have voiced their disdain and are fighting against this takeover of public “water aquifers.” They have expressed that it would be an awful idea by the State of Oregon- to allow a private corporation to obtain exclusive usage rights while state residents are suffering from the effects of this drought.
Nestle Is?Stealing Our Drinking Water
Everyone has heard of Nestle. What everyone doesn’t know is that Nestle is one of, if not the largest, food corporations in the world. What is even lesser known is that they are not even an American company- they are a Swiss company. Their product matrix runs the gambit from food, to food supplies, and drinking water. Over the last several decades bottled water has become an important focal point of their business.
Not by coincidence, in this writer’s view one of their largest bottling facilities is in Sacramento, California. The State of California is in the midst of one of the worst droughts ever on record. It’s historic.?Friends of mine from that state have informed me they can be taking, and excellent shower and the water will give out. With this historical blight taking place, Nestle is still bottling and capping water as if there was no tomorrow. Nestle rational is that people need to drink water, and this water is not being wasted.
Nestle in a Q&A added that bottled water was a healthy alternative when free tap water is not available. Nestle lusts to continue to use up the water supply for their capitalistic profits and creating demand that otherwise would not be is the reason free drinking water is running low.
Also, the water being bottled in Sacramento is not being distributed to where it is needed most but being shipped around the world- business as usual. It’s the old “don’t piss down my back and tell me it’s raining.”
What should burn our backsides about this scenario more than anything is this civil injustice being done not by an American company but a foreign corporation.
To ask citizens to cut back flushing the toilet, to take fewer showers, not to water their lawns and to make social sacrifices so that this capitalistic, foreign corporation can proceed as usual is asinine.
Should Nestle be allowed to buy public drinking water aquifers? I for one say no, but HELL NO.?Nestle is stealing our drinking water.
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