A suggestion from Joseph Raglione.
Nestle should pump water up from the Ocean and remove the Salt and then send the clean water through pipes to large cities. They can charge cities and states for the service and everybody will love them. Otherwise!
Dear Joseph,
The Story of Stuff Project wants to make a film that will spur action against Nestle’s worldwide water exploitation.
We need to raise $20,000 to make our new film a reality. Donate today to make this story go viral until Nestle cleans up its act.
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There’s a big fight brewing over water worldwide. From drought-stricken California, to Canada, to Germany and beyond, the Nestle Corporation is one of the key players in a worldwide effort to privatize our water resources. At the World Economic Forum, Nestle’s Chairman of the Board Peter Brabeck directly opposed declaring water a human right, going so far as to call it an “extreme” action.
While Nestle profits off of one of the fundamental components of life, and litters our oceans with plastic packaging, people and at-risk ecosystems pay the price. But the movement to push back against Nestle is just getting started.
Currently in California, Nestle is taking millions of gallons of water for bottlingfrom the drought-impacted San Bernardino National Forest in exchange for a ridiculously small $524 annual fee. When we looked into this story further we discovered why the fee is so small: the permit that Nestle is using to extract water from the National Forest expired over 25 years ago!
Over the past several months, we’ve been working with a retired Forest Service scientist to better understand the impact Nestle’s bottling operation is having on the environment. According to this scientist, who has watched Nestle’s actions in San Bernardino for decades, "They’re taking way too much water. That water's hugely important."
This month, our Campaign Director Stiv Wilson traveled to the San Bernardino National Forest with a film crew to get footage of Nestle’s pipeline and bottling operation and to interview Forest Service whistleblowers about this crisis.What’s clear is that Nestle would prefer to avoid a full environmental review of its permit. But with residents of California being asked to conserve water, the pressure is growing on the Forest Service to study the impact of Nestle’s bottling operation.
Over the coming weeks, we plan to produce and release a short video that will expose Nestle’s unethical operations on California’s public lands to millions of viewers. This video will tell a story Nestle doesn’t want the public to know, launching a larger campaign to hold Nestle accountable.
Now is the time to act. With the drought in California stirring up national media attention, people’s concern about the future of our public water is at an all time high. Nestle takes water from public lands around the world to produce single-use bottled water that costs 300 times as much as tap. With our changing climate, droughts are expected to become a worldwide problem. If we can spread the real story of Nestle far and wide, we can force government and businesses to take action.
Nestle’s operation in the San Bernardino National Forest is just the tip of the iceberg. We’ve already filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to obtain more information about Nestle’s operations on other public lands, and we need resources to keep the pressure on the company until we achieve real change.
And to underline the urgency of this moment, two generous donors have agreed to match the first $10,000 in donations for this project. That means that if you give today, your donation will be doubled!
Nestle has immense resources, but we believe public resolve to create a clean and sustainable society is stronger. With Community members like you joining forces with others around the world, we can challenge Nestle to clean up its act.
Are you in?
For our entire team,
Michael O'Heaney
Executive Director
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