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Bankrupt from trying to defend your community’s only source of fresh water?
That’s what a small rural community is facing unless it gets help from people like you to take on a giant drinks corporation.
Can you please donate CA$91 to support these water defenders?
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A brave rural community is taking on a million-dollar beverage company, Asahi-Schweppes, to protect that most precious resource: water.
They’re rapidly running out... of money at this point in time and they need your help to continue this fight until they kick this greedy company out for good.
Asahi-Schweppes has been bottling up Stanley’s only source of fresh water, selling it off, and making millions at the expense of the people who depend on it.
This small Australian town has been fighting back -- but after two years the community has racked up a whopping $90,000 in legal costs. It’s facing a terrible choice: give up or face bankruptcy.
That’s where you come in. The townspeople have asked us to put out a call for help from around the world. Can you please donate to take on Schweppes and save this tiny community from bankruptcy?
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Donate CA$91 Donate CA$136 Donate CA$181 Donate another amountFor daring to take the water miners to court, Stanley’s water defenders have been ordered to pay more than $90,000 in legal costs.
This could either bankrupt the town community association, which operates the local post office and community centre, or force residents to empty their savings to pay the bill.
The water miners are hoping this will make the community back down, as applications for more and more pumps start popping up across their region.
But what they didn’t count on, is thousands of SumOfUs members like you. With your donation we can support Stanley residents to cover the legal costs and keep up their fight to protect the most precious resource they have: their water. But we need to act right now.
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Donate CA$91 Donate CA$136 Donate CA$181 Donate another amountPowerful companies rely on high legal costs to deter communities from defending their rights. They know that, in court, it’s very often the side with deeper pockets that can stick it out until the end. But SumOfUs members have proven corporations wrong before.
Thousands of members like you helped the township of Osceola in the United States avoid bankruptcy by raising over $50,000 to fight off a lawsuit from Nestlé for trying to protect their water. That’s truly incredible.
The bottled water industry like their odds when it’s just their lawyers versus a small community. But we know that when we take on this cashed up industry together, we become powerful enough to win.
Right now the people of Stanley need your support to do it. Please will you chip in today?
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Thanks for all that you do,
Nick, Tricia, Kat and the team at SumOfUs
More information:
The village that fought and lost a war against the new water merchants The Sydney Morning Herald, 15 February 2018
Victorian town ordered to pay $90,000 after losing bottled water battle with farmer The Guardian, 30 April 2018
What happens to small towns whose water becomes big business for bottled brands? ABC, 17 May 2018
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