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"Nestle sold $7.7 billion dollars worth of bottled water last year,
making it the world’s largest bottled water company. It made that money
partly by paying a pittance for its product. Nestlé pays the U.S. Forest
Service only $524 a year to draw 30 million gallons of public water in
San Bernardino, California, and Nestlé pays the city of Evart, Michigan
just $250,000 a year for its water. Consumers drink bottled water
because they assume it’s safer than tap, but that makes us complicit in
what many analysts and activists warn is the gradual privatization of
water. These multinational corporations don’t have the public’s best
interests in mind, activists warn. If anybody should own water, it’s the
public."
Via Meep, who added: "Nestle takes about 25 million gallons of water a
year from the San Bernardino National Forest under a permit that expired
decades ago."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://www.xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
http://www.glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
http://www.sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
