Oregon is not happy with Nestlé.
The top selling water bottle company is trying to tap between 100 and 166 million gallons of water from the Columbia River Gorge, and people in Oregon are trying to stop it. Nestlé’s justification for taking the water is that they plan to refill the gorge with tap water.
Many people think this will damage the wildlife, so Nestlé is running a one-year test here to raise 700 rainbow trout in a tank filled with well water. They are worried that activists might sabotage the test, so they’re put the 1,700-gallon tank under lock and added security cameras. Three fish have died so far, and they are trying to figure out the cause of death.
Julia DeGraw, Northwest Organizer for Food & Water Watch said:
“Oregon’s water belongs to all of us and is too precious to sell off to a multinational bottling company with a track record of leaving some of the communities it enters in worse economic and environmental shape than it found them.”
We support Oregon on this one. The environment is more important than Nestlé’s bottom line!
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