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Laurel Street Store Opening!
August 26th, 2008watermatters will open its new store in early September at 2539 Laurel St in Vancouver, located one block east of Oak St between West Broadway and 10th Ave. We look ... More »
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Laurel Street Store Opening!
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008watermatters will open its new store in early September at 2539 Laurel St in Vancouver, located one block east of Oak St between West Broadway and 10th Ave. We look forward to seeing you there!
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Dr Masaru Emoto in Vancouver
Thursday, July 17th, 2008Dr Emoto, the author of Messages from Water, whose beautiful water crystals were featured in the movie “What the Bleep!?” is coming to Vancouver to speak about how our thoughts affect water.
when:
August 15, 2008 6:30pmwhere:
Unity of Vancouver, 5840 Oak St at 41sttickets:
$20 in advance (Ayurveda 604-228-1537 or Banyen 604-737-8858)
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Yogathon and Blissfest
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008On Saturday July 12, 2008 two thousand people will participate in the Camp Moomba Yogathon & Blissfest to raise funds for children impacted by HIV/AIDS.
Everyone is invited to this outoor celebration which includes music, kids activites, marketplace, fashion show, and 108 minutes of yoga in the largest outdoor yoga class in Vancouver at UBC Thunderbird Stadium.
watermatters is the official water sponsor for this event.
Come to the watermatters tent to refill your bottle and to purchase the newly-arrived coloured Klean Kanteen bottles - stainless steel and BPA-free!
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Is Your River For Sale?
Friday, May 30th, 2008Learn about the outrageous give-away of BC’s most precious assets.
See all water licenses across BC.
Click on each dot for details!Check out the Wilderness Committee’s video guide to river privatization.
Take Action!
Stand up with these organizations to save BC rivers:
Save Our Rivers
Western Wilderness Committee
Public Power BC
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North America Says NO to Bottled Water
Saturday, April 12th, 2008Community Protests, Slowing Market Hang Over Nestlé Shareholders’ Meeting
BOSTON - April 10 - Today in Lausanne, Switzerland, Nestlé executives and shareholders’ had the opportunity to reflect on a year that has been marked by a growing antipathy toward the corporation’s signature product – bottled water.
Community protests over water rights have stymied Nestlé’s attempts in North America to secure new water sources for bottled water brands like Poland Spring. Just this week BusinessWeek documented one town’s struggles in A Town Torn Apart by Nestlé. This coverage comes on the heels of major congressional hearings that have called into question Nestlé’s bottling practices at sites across the country.
North American campaigns to wean cities, restaurants, and other establishments from bottled water, such as Think Outside the Bottle, also appear to be taking their toll on Nestlé’s sales. In the recent article, Nestle Loses Sales as Alice Waters Bans Bottled Water, Bloomberg reported that Nestlé water unit’s operating profit growth will shrink by half in 2008. The backdrop to this is an overall downturn in market growth in the United States.
“When other businesses, including world-class restaurants, begin pointing to Nestlé products as wasteful, bad for the environment, and unnecessary, it doesn’t paint the rosiest picture for investors,” said Gigi Kellett, national director for Think Outside the Bottle, a campaign of Corporate Accountability International. “Nestlé can use its shareholders’ meeting to start explaining how it will stop practices that involve strong-arming communities out of their most precious resource.”
Corporate Accountability International is calling on Nestlé to:
- reveal the sources and sites of the water used for bottling;
- publicly report breaches in bottled water quality comparable to reports by public water system;
- and stop threatening local control of water when siting and operating bottled water plants
In concert with Nestlé’s annual shareholders’ meeting, Corporate Accountability International has launched a website dedicated to exposing Nestlé abuses.
The website provides a link to a Polaris Institute map of North American bottling sites and documents three community struggles including:
Fryeburg, Maine. Locals call the water source the Ward’s Brook Aquifer, but the end product is called Poland Spring. The bottling plant’s impact on the aquifer has 90-year-old Howard Dearborn and his neighbors waging a campaign to return Fryeburg’s water to public control. Read the story.
Mecosta County, Michigan. When Nestlé wanted to build a bottling plant on the shores of a wildlife sanctuary, locals said enough is enough. But the corporation is challenging the community’s right to protect this valued natural area and the essential resource that lies beneath it. Read the story.
For more information on Think Outside the Bottle, community struggles, and for facts about bottled water, visit their site.
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SOURCE: Corporate Accountability International
Nick Guroff 617-447-2507
Sara Joseph 617-447-2527