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- Holly Wren Spaulding, featured in the movie FLOW, is posting all week  

- Can we be humanitarians and conservationists at the same time? Gary Wilson
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<https://97a15b229a-custmedia.vresp.com/library/1239118336/36a9306929/holly%
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community activist.  She was a co-founding member of Sweetwater Alliance, a
direct action organization formed to challenge the mining of Michigan
groundwater by Nestle Corporation.  She worked on, and also appears in, the
award winning documentary FLOW, currently in theaters nationwide. 

 
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  " Can we expect kids-or anyone else--to care about something like the
future of water if they have no direct experience?"
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humanitarian water usage. 

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"...no law or Compact will stand up to the pressure and images of people
dying for lack of water, while we hoard 20% of the Earth's supply of fresh
surface water and facilitate its usage in global warming plastic bottles."
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Do you favor sharing Great Lakes water on a short-term basis to save human
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