Where The Dark Water Flows...

Nestle's another one of those corporations that needs to be brought to people's attentions and here's why :

Not only known for their problems with selling baby milk powder, and causing problems by cutting out the breast feeding of children in Third World countries, they also have a substantial interest in dominating the bottled water market.

Here's some information on the baby milk powder issue, BTW.

Nestlé is targeted with the boycott because monitoring conducted by the International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) finds it to be responsible for more violations of the World Health Assembly marketing requirements for baby foods than any other company (see the codewatch section for profiles of the different companies to target their malpractice).

Babymilkaction website

And again with the water...
With water scarcity a growing problem in the Southern USA, why are such deals (especially at such rock bottom prices) even being allowed to occur ? Water is a resource that life depends on, that all of us depend on, and when it is sold off to corporations for such low prices, or indeed at any price, local people will ultimately pay the penalty, while profits are made by the distant corporation. Without water, the land is worthless.


Here's Nestle Waters home page, which contains their environmental policy, in the interests of fairness :

and a message from their "Enviornmental Stewardship" program
“We do great environmental work before we come into a place and continuous monitoring work to make sure the water resources are sustainable for a long time. You can’t build a plant on wheels. The spring water source has to be there 100 years from now, and in order to do that, we’ve got to have good land use practices and aquifer practices. We’ve got to know what’s coming out of there and how fast it’s being replenished. The health of the aquifer is paramount to us.”
BTW...that quote is from 2004...I'd say the bottled water industry and the water resources have changed dramatically over the past four years don't you agree?

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While searching I found a blog on blogspot focused on boycotting nestle...check it out.