Green | October 14, 2008 | 18 comments

Tell Nestle: Stop bullying our public water utility

source: http://action.foodandwaterwatch.org/t/5915/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=1427&track=NestMail

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JanforGore
Residents of Miami-Dade recently heard a public service announcement encouraging them to drink their tap water and reminding them that bottled water doesn't go through the same stringent testing as tap water. It's a good message -- so good that it's got corporate water baron Nestle shooting off geysers.


Nestle wrote to the Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Department (WaSD) and told them: CEASE AND DESIST with your advertising campaign. AND promise you'll never do it again.

Nestle just assured us in a public forum they aren't competing with tap water. So why are they hitting a public utility with such strong arm tactics ? Is the consumer backlash against the waste of bottled water draining their $46 billion water revenues? Are the community wins against the bottler's fight to take control of community water making them nervous?
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Seems these companies don't believe in freedom of speech.
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18 comments // Tell Nestle: Stop bullying our public water utility

  • tokomoe
  • darkhorsejim
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      darkhorsejim  

    • The struggle to control the world's dwindling sources of fresh water has been steadily increasing over the years, with fewer & fewer companies owning more & more water rights. This may not seem too significant yet, but at some point, who ever controls the water, controls the people. Where do you draw the line between private enterprise & the public's welfare? It's almost like charging people to breathe. And if they could, they would.

    • 3 years ago
  • JanforGore
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      JanforGore  
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    • Water Wars In The Great Lakes

      Bottled water is tap water that is simply put through a filtration process. It is not free of arsenic and other chemicals, and the water bottling industry is not as regulated as municipal systems are. It is one of the biggest shams perpetrated against the world population. Boiling your water if it makes you feel more secure or buying a good water filter (and using a refillable bottle) is just as good, much cheaper, saves the environment, saves oil, and saves plastic waste in our landfills and waterways. Bottled water seems to have become a status symbol in the US for people who think that carrying it on their wastes in a designer holder is chic. It is a wasteful practice and is contributing along with other plastic bottled waste to pollution and the privitization of a resource that should be preserved as a public trust.

    • 3 years ago
  • 3oc
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      3oc  

    • Expecting any government to protect resources for the people is like asking a fox to look after the hen house.

      Don't purchase products from companies like Nestle or any other corporate institution that rapes the planet.

      Money is power - keep it in your wallet.

    • 3 years ago
  • JanforGore
  • Vierotchka
  • DoubleHeadedEagle
  • 3oc
  • bedeboop
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      bedeboop  

    • Wyoming, least where I live has GREAT tap water, I can actually drink it straight from the tap. Until I moved here I had not done that in about 30 years, not since living Butte, Montana as a kid. I LOVE IT! ;)

    • 3 years ago
  • Vierotchka
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      Vierotchka  

    • I hate to have to admit it, but one of my nieces is married to a senior executive officer of Nestlé who is a charming man with a good heart. He and my niece and their two children are presently stationed in Moscow.

      I also hate to have to admit that I love Nestlé chocolate...

    • 3 years ago
  • JanforGore
  • Vierotchka
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      Vierotchka  
    • Vierotchka:

      I can't afford to go to Moscow... But I have had talks with him in the past with regard to Nestlé's baby formula versus breast-feeding in third-world countries, and he explained at length how Nestlé admitted its mistake and did a great deal to undo the damage it had caused. He is a good man.

    • 3 years ago
  • UWAZell
  • Vierotchka
  • Kwertykus
  • k8_hj
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      k8_hj  

    • Wow- So... Nestle's really a great company. From distributing breast-milk substitute in African villages in the 70's which led to the death by malnutrition of thousands of babies to strong arm tactics over water. Nice.

    • 3 years ago
  • onechance
  • JanforGore
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