Fwd: [CRRA] Think Outside the Bottle - campaign for access to water

[Gary Liss <gary@garyliss.com>]

Apologies for Cross-Postings

> To: CRRA
> Listserve <crra_members@yahoogroups.com>
> From: Mary Lou Van Deventer <marylouvan@urbanore.us>
> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:35:46 -0700
> Subject: [CRRA] Think Outside the Bottle - campaign for access to
> water
>
> Colleagues - 
>
> There are more problems with bottled water than the issues with the
> bottle (estrogenic effects, recyclability, and resource use). 
> Here's an organization that is worried about people's access to water
> around the globe and is focusing on the implications of water as a
> marketable commodity.  She came to NCRA last week with a very short
> but effective presentation.  The campaign will launch next
> week.  
>
> Mary Lou Van Deventer 
> Urban Ore 
> NCRA 
>
>
>
> Rachael
> Corporate Accountability International Organizer
> rgoodyer@greencorps.org
> 510 809 7353
>
> CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY INTERNATIONAL'S
> THINK OUTSIDE THE BOTTLE CAMPAIGN
>
> THE WORLD WATER CHALLENGE
> DO YOU CARE ABOUT YOUR RIGHT TO WATER?...
>
> WEDNESDAY 3RD OCTOBER
> 7.30PM
> MALONGA CASQUELORD CENTER FOR THE ARTS (FORMERLY ALICE ARTS CENTER)
> 1428 ALICE STREET, OAKLAND, CA 94612
> REFRESHMENTS PROVIDED.
>
> PLEASE RSVP Rachael
> rgooyder@greencorps.org or
> call 510 809 7353
>
>
> CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY INTERNATIONAL's
>
> Think Outside the Bottle Campaign
>
>
> Corporate Accountability International is a membership organization that
> wages campaigns to stop irresponsible and dangerous corporate actions.
> Founded in 1977 under the name "Infact," we have succeeded in
> forcing major concessions from transnational corporations such as Nestlé,
> General Electric, and Phillip Morris/Altria.  Building upon 30 years
> of successful grassroots organizing, we are campaigning to bring global
> attention to the life-threatening abuses of the water industry.
>
>
> Bottled water corporations are changing the way that we all think about
> water. A handful of corporations have identified water as a commodity and
> are increasingly trying to take control of public water resources and
> systems. Coke, Nestlé and Pepsi are among those, and are undermining
> confidence in public water systems by making people think that the only
> place to get clean safe water is in from a bottle.
>
>
> The more water becomes a high priced commodity - the "oil of the
> 21st century" - the more public water sources and universal access
> to water become threatened. For example, Coke's Dasani and Pepsi's
> Aquafina use tap water as their source, but sell it back to us at
> thousands of times the cost. Others like Nestlé, run roughshod over
> communities' concerns and damage the environment when they extract water
> and build bottling plants to get local spring and ground water.
>
>
> Access to water is in danger. One in six people on earth don't have
> access to enough water. That's more than one billion of us who don't have
> enough water to drink, bathe and cook. As a society, we need to be asking
> ourselves who is providing our water - a basic human right? Will it be
> Coke, Pepsi and Nestlé - or will it be our own towns and governments that
> are controlled democratically?
>
>
> We need to ensure that ALL people have equal access to clean public water
> and that our water systems are supported and well-maintained. As a step
> toward that, we are asking people across the country to Think Outside the
> Bottle and make a commitment to public tap water instead.
>
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