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Water Cannot be Owned: Nestle Out of McCloud's Aquifer!
Nestle Corporation is attempting to privatize McCloud's aquifer, following the capture of Mt. Shasta's spring water by Coca-cola/Dannon. Water is a human right and cannot be owned by corporations!!
Nestle corporation is feeding the rural village of McCloud information about the percieved benefits of selling their town's natural aquifer spring water for privatization. The aquifer under McCloud contains caverns of cold, clear spring water that is filtered through the fractured rocks of Mt. Shasta..
The nearby town of Mt. Shasta has already sold their water to Coca-cola/Dannon. This water is removed from the aquifer at the expense of a net loss of water from the Sacramento Rio headwaters. Just across the street from the warehouse sized Coca-cola/Dannon waterpump facility is Mt. Shasta City Park, the source of the Rio Sacramento headwaters. Anybody can visit this public park and fill up their own personal containers with fresh springwater emerging from beneath snowcapped Mt. Shasta. After a long hot bicycle ride from Yreka, i was more than happy to sample the ice cold spring water of the Sacramento River headwaters. Ask me if i would have paid Coca-cola any money for their plasticsoaked bottled water after having tasted free spring water literally from across the street!!
According to the Mt. Shasta Bioregional Ecology Center, Dunsmuir spring water is also targeted by another corporation, Shrivastava.
"Inside the Bottle: An Expose of the Bottled Water Industry" by Tony Clarke
http://www.polarisinstitute.org/
Mt. Shasta Bioregional Center
http://www.mountshastaecology.org/
The McCloud Watershed Council won a small victory when a Siskyou county Judge Roger Kosel ruled in favor to set aside the contract between Nestle Waters North america and the McCloud Community Services District (MCSD). The reason the contract was considered invalid is that the MCSD signed the contract with Nestle before an environmental review was conducted, so both parties were not in compliance with California Environjmental Quality Act (CEQA). Nestle is appealing the ruling and pushing forward with their attempt to build the world's largest water bottling facility in the village of McCloud. They promise jobs to a struggling logging town, yet most of the people employed there will likely be out of town technicians, not local residents. It is interesting to note the haste in which Nestle is operating, perhaps trying to cement the deal before the grassroots organizing of community groups like McCloud Watershed Council sets the residents against their plans for profit..
McCloud Watershed Council
http://mccloudwatercommons.org/
Similar to Nestle, Coca-cola also intrudes on rural villages in Mexico, the rare aquifers in the Sierra Madre states of Oaxaca y Chaipas are also under attack..
CIEPAC Centro de Investigaciones Economicas y Politicas de Acion Comunitaria
http://www.ciepac.org/
CIEPAC Boicot Coca-cola y Pespi
http://www.ciepac.org/otras%20temas/campanas/boicot-coca/index.html
The nearby town of Mt. Shasta has already sold their water to Coca-cola/Dannon. This water is removed from the aquifer at the expense of a net loss of water from the Sacramento Rio headwaters. Just across the street from the warehouse sized Coca-cola/Dannon waterpump facility is Mt. Shasta City Park, the source of the Rio Sacramento headwaters. Anybody can visit this public park and fill up their own personal containers with fresh springwater emerging from beneath snowcapped Mt. Shasta. After a long hot bicycle ride from Yreka, i was more than happy to sample the ice cold spring water of the Sacramento River headwaters. Ask me if i would have paid Coca-cola any money for their plasticsoaked bottled water after having tasted free spring water literally from across the street!!
According to the Mt. Shasta Bioregional Ecology Center, Dunsmuir spring water is also targeted by another corporation, Shrivastava.
"Inside the Bottle: An Expose of the Bottled Water Industry" by Tony Clarke
http://www.polarisinstitute.org/
Mt. Shasta Bioregional Center
http://www.mountshastaecology.org/
The McCloud Watershed Council won a small victory when a Siskyou county Judge Roger Kosel ruled in favor to set aside the contract between Nestle Waters North america and the McCloud Community Services District (MCSD). The reason the contract was considered invalid is that the MCSD signed the contract with Nestle before an environmental review was conducted, so both parties were not in compliance with California Environjmental Quality Act (CEQA). Nestle is appealing the ruling and pushing forward with their attempt to build the world's largest water bottling facility in the village of McCloud. They promise jobs to a struggling logging town, yet most of the people employed there will likely be out of town technicians, not local residents. It is interesting to note the haste in which Nestle is operating, perhaps trying to cement the deal before the grassroots organizing of community groups like McCloud Watershed Council sets the residents against their plans for profit..
McCloud Watershed Council
http://mccloudwatercommons.org/
Similar to Nestle, Coca-cola also intrudes on rural villages in Mexico, the rare aquifers in the Sierra Madre states of Oaxaca y Chaipas are also under attack..
CIEPAC Centro de Investigaciones Economicas y Politicas de Acion Comunitaria
http://www.ciepac.org/
CIEPAC Boicot Coca-cola y Pespi
http://www.ciepac.org/otras%20temas/campanas/boicot-coca/index.html
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The Sweet Water alliance here in Michigan has had some success fighting Nestles attempt to bottle water here in Michigan.
Their web site is: http://www.waterissweet.org/
Their web site is: http://www.waterissweet.org/
Florida's natural limestone aquifers have gotten hammered pretty bad by Nestle/Coca-cola, etc. tambien, but here also community resistance to corporate water bottlers is strong also..
Ironically, the same abb. SOS (Save Our Springs) is also used by the Minutemen (SOS - Save Our State) along the US/Mex imaginary border attempting to keep Mexicans on one side of a concrete barbed wire fence..
If people really want to show their patriotism and love for America, why not stand up and defend the most precious compound around, spring filtered agua from corporate plunder??
Another factor to consider is that the Sonoran desert region the Minutemen are patrolling once held many natural desert springs that are now dry after the decades of Rio Colorado water diversions lowered the water table. Many species of desert wildlife depended on these spings for survival and now we have replaced them with golf courses and monocultura suburban lawns, rocket fuel soaked (thanks 2 Lockheed Martin) Imperial Valley iceberg lettuce agribusiness??
So hey all u Minutemen SOS vigilantes in the desert, how 'bout showing some real patriotism and stopping the emmigration of America's spring water into the coffers of corporate water bottlers??
Save our Springs - Florida
http://www.saveamericaswater.com/fl/
Ironically, the same abb. SOS (Save Our Springs) is also used by the Minutemen (SOS - Save Our State) along the US/Mex imaginary border attempting to keep Mexicans on one side of a concrete barbed wire fence..
If people really want to show their patriotism and love for America, why not stand up and defend the most precious compound around, spring filtered agua from corporate plunder??
Another factor to consider is that the Sonoran desert region the Minutemen are patrolling once held many natural desert springs that are now dry after the decades of Rio Colorado water diversions lowered the water table. Many species of desert wildlife depended on these spings for survival and now we have replaced them with golf courses and monocultura suburban lawns, rocket fuel soaked (thanks 2 Lockheed Martin) Imperial Valley iceberg lettuce agribusiness??
So hey all u Minutemen SOS vigilantes in the desert, how 'bout showing some real patriotism and stopping the emmigration of America's spring water into the coffers of corporate water bottlers??
Save our Springs - Florida
http://www.saveamericaswater.com/fl/
Please visit out website for further information on the abuse of Nestles. We are opposed to the largest water bottling plant in North America landing in our rural town.
The draft EIR is out! We need your support. Please log onto our website and write a comment to the Siskiyou County Board Of Supervisors who stand to gain over 1 million in annual revenue from the sale of McClouds water! We stand to gain 300,000. spread out over a 10 year period! The contract is for 100 years renewable at the same terms.
Who's getting screwed? We are!
Thank you,
Nancie de Ross
The draft EIR is out! We need your support. Please log onto our website and write a comment to the Siskiyou County Board Of Supervisors who stand to gain over 1 million in annual revenue from the sale of McClouds water! We stand to gain 300,000. spread out over a 10 year period! The contract is for 100 years renewable at the same terms.
Who's getting screwed? We are!
Thank you,
Nancie de Ross
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