Nestlé
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- Published on Sunday, 22 February 2015 17:00
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Paov,
Thanks for calling on the goverment of British Columbia to charge a reasonable price for Canada's groundwater. Please spread the word to friends and family so that we can get the maximum number of voices into this campaign.
Thank you,
Angus, Nicole and the rest of us at SumOfUs
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Dear Friends,
I just found out some bad news. British Columbia will finally start charging companies like Nestlé for taking our groundwater and bottling it to sell at a profit. The problem is it will only be charging $2.25. Per million litres.
That's about one-ten-thousandths of a cent per bottle. When hundreds of thousands of us objected to Nestlé taking 285 million litres of BC's water for free and selling it around the world, this wasn't the fix we had in mind.
At a time when water is in short supply globally, it is outrageous that Nestlé can draw limitless amounts of our natural resources to sell for a huge profit. Nestlé's chairman says that "extremist" NGOs are responsible for the idea that water is a human right, and that water should have a market price -- apparently he thinks that the “market price" for him is $2.25.
Tell the BC government to charge a fair price for our most precious resource.
http://action.sumofus.org/a/bc-bottled-water/?sub=taf
Thanks,
Paov,
SumOfUs is a worldwide movement of people like you, working together to hold corporations accountable for their actions and forge a new, sustainable path for our global economy. Please help keep SumOfUs strong byr0
