https://padlet.com/zev_jagalur/9w7etav6rd20 One can sometimes redo. en-us 2016-12-16 01:51:17 UTC 2025-09-28 13:24:44 UTC hello@padlet.com zev_jagalur https://padlet.com/zev_jagalur/9w7etav6rd20/wish/143977019 The documentary we saw today is so far very good. A few key points it has made are:
There is a small town in Maine called Fryeburg, where a giant multinational company is taking advantage of lax laws. The company is Nestle, and it is based in Switzerland. It is doing water mining in various small towns in Maine. The local people in Fryeburg are trying to fight it. It is a question of water rights, and who controls it. In that state whoever has the deepest and biggest pump can have the right to the water, which seems unfair. This water is bottled and sold under different names like Poland Spring. City folks elsewhere in the country get to drink the water, and Nestle gets rich, but the locals get nothing. Nestle is getting the water for  free and they are selling it for an obscene profit. 
In  North Carolina and  Georgia, big soda companies are using up municipal water supplies and groundwater even when there are droughts. In Atlanta, we saw how the water in the lake had diminished. The locals and local small businesses have to abide by water conservation rules - yet, Coca Cola can keep using millions of gallons of water - even during a drought.  
Bottled water has become big business, and is very profitable. In the film, someone called it "blue gold". Companies started marketing it as being better than tap water.  They used words like "pure" - implying that it was cleaner than tap water.
- The production of bottled water creates  toxic chemical byproducts that cause horrible diseases such as cancer. In the film, we see several unfortunate people who live near Flint Hills - which is in Corpus Christi, Texas. They are suffering health issues because of a petrochemical plant there which makes an ingredient used in manufacturing bottles. 
- Forty percent of bottled water is really  just filtered tap water resold for profit when it was extracted for practically free.
- When we treat our water as a commodity it becomes corporate controlled. It should be a human right.

--The water companies are reselling water that belongs to all of us ! Mahatma Gandhi once said "There is enough water for human need but not for human greed." TOO TRUE.


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