Is access to clean water a basic human right or a commodity that should be bought and sold like in other article of commerce? From California to Michigan to Maine, the Nestlé Corporation is currently waging legal battles against communities to secure their local water mining rights. What does this really mean? Across the United states surface water the oceans, ponds, rivers, and lakes are held as a public trust. No one really owns the water, but ground water falls under a different set of rules depending on the state. Maine for instances operates with a rule called Absolute Dominion. A law adopted in the late 1800's that basically means that he who has the biggest pump can take the most water. In short, Nestle gets a permit before the people who are impacted by this water mining really know what is going on.

"They're making all of the profit and we're suffering. The water belongs to the people and when they take it, the town gets nothing."

This is a common theme.  I don't know about you, but this does not sound right to me.  Nestlé   is pulling out all of this water for nearly free (6-11 cents per gallon to extract, process and package) and  then selling it back to the local communites at a huge profit ($6.00 per gallon.)!  Nestle is also a Swiss company; a company that made $3.5 billion from bottled water in 2008. 

DId you know that by the year 2030 2/3 of the worlds population will lack access to clean drinking water? The cost of bottle water becomes  more than the cost of a gallon of gasoline  and when you consider that, you realize that water is the next empire ; an empire worth almost 800 billion dollars per year! Nestle has long since realized this and is scheming against small US communities to cash in on the profit. Sign this petition now to defend our communites and tell Nestlé Waters to stop taking OUR water!

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