“Nestlé is Trying to Break Us” Town Fights to Stop Bottled Water Megacorp

[chknltl]

43. Tell me where to get my water

I am on a well. Our area has what is best described as Iron water. It turns everything yellow, my dishes are yellow my shower and toilet are yellow...my undershorts are even yellow! This water tastes like crap. I buy bottled water at my local Safeway.

Most folks in my neighborhood have expensive heavily filtered water systems for their wells but i can't afford that. Like many folks in our country, i rent and my landlady (my sister), can not afford to add that filter either. Where should i get my water?

This brings to mind all those folks who live in regions where fracking has ruined their drinking water. You hear stories where the frackers wind up bringing in water tanks for them but as we are well aware here at DU, big corporations usually find ways to wiggle out of any responsibilities they should have to the 'little people' they screw over. I would not be surprised to learn that these folks have to buy their drinking water in bottles too.

While i agree that consumerism fuels the corporatist, that the bottled water market works that way, there are needs beyond simple 'fashion' for bottled water. There is enough need for this product to create a market.

That said, those who seek to exploit or monopolize the system to the possible detriment of those who have nothing to do with the system should be scrutinized carefully. Do we know the affects of the massive pumping out of this aquifer will have on this town? What affect all those trucks rolling through that small town may have?

I am reminded of American History, where we hunted buffalo to near extinction and did so for profit and for a deliberate detriment to the Native Americans who relied on them. After reading many posts throughout this thread I have to ask myself if big corporations are taking over our country and the citizenry are the new version Native Americans watching the hostile takeover of our lands and resources.