Are you a fan of Calistoga bottled water? How about Arrowhead, Ice Mountain, Ozarka, Poland Spring, or Zephyrhills? All are brands produced by Nestle Corp. and marketed in the U.S. Nestle sells more than 65 other brands in countries besides the U.S. Where can all that water come from? They take it from developing countries, doing great harm to natural resources and forcing the people to buy back their own water. Take Pakistan, for example. Nestle has taken so much water that the groundwater is reaching dangerously low levels. The result is people’s inability to produce and earn a livelihood, pushing them into poverty. As for the waterless land, whole areas are becoming uninhabitable. Nestle’s CEO Peter Brabeck-Letmathe claims that “access to water should not be a public right.” In other words, if you’re a large corporation, you should have the right to take a country’s water and destroy people’s lives.
Read more at http://urbantimes.co/2013/06/nestle-the-global-search-for-liquid-gold.
If you’re not willing to give up bottled-water, avoid Nestle brands.
Also, sign the petition to Nestle executives telling them to stop stealing Pakistan’s water and driving its people into poverty and starvation.