Bani Adam
Senator (1k+ posts)
Nestl is draining developing countries groundwater to make its Pure Life bottled water, destroying countries natural resources before forcing its people to buy their own water back.
Now Nestl is moving into Pakistan and sucking up the local water supply, rendering entire areas uninhabitable in order to sell mineral-enriched water to the upper class as a status symbol, while the poor watch wells run dry and their children fall ill.
Tell Nestl to stop stealing Pakistans water and making its villages uninhabitable.
Nestls aggressive water grab is already descending like a plague on parts of Pakistan. In the small village of Bhati Dilwan, villagers have watched their water table sink hundreds of feet since Nestl moved in. Children are getting sick from the foul-smelling sludge theyre forced to choke down. Meanwhile, Nestl spends millions marketing Pure Life to wealthy Americans, Europeans, and Pakistanis who can afford to watch their kids grow up healthy. This scenario is played out again and again in countries around the globe. But this is where we say: enough! Dirty water kills more children around the world than AIDS, malaria, war, and traffic accidents combined -- and Nestl has a big hand in it.
At the World Water Forum in 2000, Nestl led the way in fighting against defining access to water a universal right. Nestl and other big corporations won out, and government officials around the globe officially downgraded waters classification to a need instead, meaning it could be captured, commoditized, and exploited by major corporations without regard for local populations.
Tell Nestl: Water is a human right. Stop stealing it from communities around the world.
When the company's Canadian subsidiary pushed to keep draining millions of liters of fresh water from the water table in a time of drought, we joined our friends at the Council of Canadians, Wellington Water Watchers, and Ecojustice challenging Nestl in court -- and we won! Just this month, after additional pressure from thousands of SumOfUs members, Nestl decided to drop its appeal -- a huge win for the public.
If we expose Nestls disgusting game plan for Pakistan, the company will scale back its water-draining facilities to avoid a damaging global backlash. But if we ignore whats happening there, Nestl and other major corporations will suck up more and more the worlds water -- and thats not good news for anyone.
Join us in standing up to corporations like Nestl that suck up essential natural resources.
Nestls current chairman and former CEO was caught on tape arguing that water is "not a right, and while the clip is shocking, the reality is even worse. Nestls aggressive policies are depriving thousands of people around the planet of the basic water they need to survive, all to pump up the companys bottom line. Please join us in taking a stand against corporate seizure of our natural resources today.
Sign the petition to Nestl: http://action.sumofus.org/a/nestle-water-pakistan/?sub=pr
