It stops here, it stops now

Rural Communities Exploited by Nestlé for Your Bottled Water … By Tara Lohan, AlterNet. Posted May 30, 2007. … Bottled water costs way more than the few bucks you pay at the store. Across the U.S., rural communities are footing the bill for the booming bottled water industry. Nestlé's advance on a small town in California is the latest example.
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Across the country, multinational corporations are targeting hundreds of rural communities to gain control of their most precious resource. By strong-arming small towns with limited economic means, these corporations are part of a growing trend to privatize public water supplies for economic gain in the ballooning bottled water industry.
With sales of over $35 billion worldwide in the bottled water market, corporations are doing whatever it takes to buy up pristine springs in some of our country's most beautiful places. While the companies reap the profits, the local communities and the environment are paying the price.
One of the biggest and most voracious of the water gobblers is Nestlé, which controls one-third of the U.S. market and sells 70 different brand names -- such as Arrowhead, Calistoga, Deer Park, Perrier, Poland Spring and Ice Mountain -- which it draws from 75 springs located all over the country.

You still believe your so-called municipal water treatment facility is NOT corporate owned and controlled…?

In Arizona behind closed door agreements have been reached to allow “corporate” America to own and control most all the major sources of water treatment as well as sewage treatment, you get to foot the bill to assure “corporate” America of their “rightful” margin of profit.

If your community is fortunate enough to have a source of water which “corporate” America can utilize by converting it into “bottled” water, they’re going to get it and you will get to pay for it.

This form of fraud only stops when you and I remove our heads from the sand and stand up and forcefully enjoin “corporate” America and say NO MORE, it stops here, it stops now.