Water Should be Free For Everyone, Not Bottled For a Few
Maude Barlow
|
Posted 11.21.2012
|
Canada Business
Read More:
Nestlé,
Bottled Water Industry,
Human Rights,
World Health Organization,
Nestle,
Water,
Free Water,
Bottled Water Environment,
Nestle Bottled Water,
Canada Business News
I have just returned from a week in Switzerland to promote the right to water and to challenge the Swiss bottled water giant, Nestlé. Given that the marketing department of Nestlé has a larger annual budget than the World Health Organization, it is widely understood that the company has great political influence. This is a disaster in a world where demand for water is outstripping supply at an accelerating rate. Nestlé's goal is to shift government policy away from providing public municipal water supplies to people, and toward a dependency on bottled water to provide basic drinking water.
