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Celebrate Starting Monday…or Earlier

March 14, 2015 Comments Off on Celebrate Starting Monday…or Earlier

Monday begins a week of national observance that is extremely important, notably to Americans living in the West.  March 16-22, 2015, is National Fix-a-Leak Week.  Each leaked-away drop of water is precious, especially to those of us living in a drought.  (In our area, we have only one year of water left in storage, and our groundwater is quickly disappearing.)  Even if you live in areas that saw too much wetness this winter it’s important: when you pay your water bills and taxes, and if our drought suddenly decides to move in your direction.

To learn the facts and figures  of losing water through leaks, how to detect and fix leaks, and related information, click on http://www.epa.gov/watersense/our_water/fix_a_leak.html.

Then become part of Fix-a-Leak week starting Monday.  Or, hey, it’s a weekend.  Why not start today?

 

 

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The Truth about Nestle Bottled Water

March 5, 2014 Comments Off on The Truth about Nestle Bottled Water

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.

 

 

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