Nestle

Nestle Sucks Water From Town Water Supply While Residents Asked to Use Less

By Tom Chandler 8/1/2007

In yet another example of just how darned neighborly that zany bunch at Nestle can be, residents of the Ontario, Canada town of Guelph are being asked to conserve water -- while Nestle's bottling plant continues to pull its full allotment from the same water supplies. From a letter to the editor of the Guelph Tribune:


The City of Guelph is currently asking us to be conservative with our water, which means that under the water restrictions we can't water our gardens when we want to. However, Nestle can keep taking 3.6 million litres of our water per day to put in millions of plastic bottles that get shipped all over the U.S. and the world.

Apparently, Nestle held a "public information meeting" (where they banned recorders and video cameras) where they tried to pretend the water bottled in Guelph wasn't heading to the USA. Naturally, the person writing the letter knew they were lying (their lips were moving):


...they don't ship to the U.S. or other parts of the world. What they didn't say is that their customers and distributors do, and there is nothing prohibiting that.

Gotta love 'em.

nestle, guelph, bottled water, mccloud


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Tom Chandler

As the author of the decade leading fly fishing blog Trout Underground, Tom believes that fishing is not about measuring the experience but instead of about having fun. As a staunch environmentalist, he brings to the Yobi Community thought leadership on environmental and access issues facing us today.

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