Election doesn't persuade Cascade Locks to abandon proposed Nestlé deal

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2016/05/election_doesnt_persuade_casca.html

More on the Cascade Locks victory over Nestle story...
 

"Our Water, Our Future": Voters in Oregon Defeat Nestlé's Attempt to Privatize Their Water! 

 

" Opponents of Nestlé believe the passage of the ballot measure is perhaps the most significant win in the fight against water privatization in the United States."

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/36129-our-water-our-future-voters-in-oregon-defeat-nestle-s-attempt-to-privatize-their-water

 Look at this....

Lake Mead drops to record low: What now? (+video)

http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2016/0521/Lake-Mead-drops-to-record-low-What-now-video

Flathead Beacon article from May 4th 2016
Kalispell population growth (and water usage soaring)...Click on image to enlarge...

Anti-Nestle ballot measure: Bid to block the Nestle Cascade Locks water plant succeeds!

  “Voters in Oregon’s Hood River County today made their community one of the first in the country to ban industrial-scale water bottling.” – Local Water Alliance

 

 Around 68% of residents voted “yes” on ballot measure 14-55, blocking Nestle’s years-long battle to establish a bottling facility and export 118 million gallons of water a year from Oxbow Springs.

 

http://koin.com/2016/05/17/hood-river-count

Amid Western drought, Oregon county to vote on Nestlé bottling public water

 
If successful, the measure could set a precedent making it much harder for Nestlé and other water-bottling companies to find new sources at a time when a long drought in the American west has triggered public anger at the very notion of private companies making money and creating extensive plastic bottle waste out of a badly needed resource.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/may/17/nestle-bottled-water-oregon-measure-14-55?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Tapped Video Trailer: Great Video about the privatization of water...

Tapped is a film that examines the role of the bottled water industry and its effects on our health, climate change, pollution, and our reliance on oil. This trailer will give you a taste, I'll try to locate the full movie later....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72MCumz5lq4

Nestle Is Trying to Break Us: A Pennsylvania Town Fights Predatory Water Extraction

Big corporations privatizing clean water to make a profit is stealing a human right.

By Alexis Bonogofsky | April 29, 2016

http://billmoyers.com/story/nestle-is-trying-to-break-us-a-pennsylvania-town-fights-predatory-water-extraction/

P.S. 1000 views of this blog to date...

State Agrees to Hear Concerns Over Water Bottling Plant

Locals organize over potential negative impacts as state agency sets hearing

http://flatheadbeacon.com/2016/05/13/state-agrees-hear-concerns-water-bottling-plant/

Crystal Geyser bottling plant draws lawsuit

http://www.sfgate.com/science/article/Crystal-Geyser-sued-over-bottling-plant-that-6465184.php

 "Crystal Geyser is opening the bottling plant soon without any environmental review or limits at a time when everyone else in the state is being asked to drastically cut water use. California's non-existent laws on groundwater use allow this." 

 Would you want this in your back yard?

Video:  Bottled water companies taking us for fools?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LisE9wEdGbw

Great little video:

Back the tap! Go bottled water-free!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zONh0ZTR6ZU

Excellent commentary by Sandy Perry concerning the Creston bottling plant!

We encourage you to post your own comments at the end of the article.
http://flatheadbeacon.com/2016/05/05/protect-water-rights-property-rights/

Plastic Water Bottles Contain Estrogenic Chemicals

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bpa-free-plastic-containers-may-be-just-as-hazardous/

 

 " A 2011 study published in Environmental Health Perspectives found that almost all of the 455 commercially available plastics that were tested leached estrogenic chemicals."

 

 

BPA and even BPA free plastics can put our river and streams and maybe even us at risk.

 http://www.nbcnews.com/id/6436617/ns/nbc_nightly_news_with_brian_williams/t/male-fish-becoming-female/#.Vylv7TGrGhH 

  

 

As I see it, the moral of the story is we need to be extremely careful of what we allow to go into our water. Also since estrogenic chemicals are active at very low levels,  the old catch phrase "the solution to pollution is dilution", is simply not true. 

 

The question for tonight is "Do Water Bottling Companies provide good jobs?" I found this PDF during my internet searches, so I thought I might share.

The Unbottled Truth About Bottled Water Jobs