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The race for #water resources has begun #n97

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This Is Crazy // "US Consumes 1500 Plastic Water Bottles Every Second"

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"Out of the 50 billion bottles of water being bought each year, 80% end up in a landfill, even though recycling programs exist.17 million barrels of oil are used in producing bottled water each year. Bottled water costs 1,000 times more than tap water. Drinking 2 Litres of tap water a day only costs 50 cents per year. Plastic leaches toxins into the water, which have been linked to health problems such as reproductive issues and cancer."

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LOL read the fine print on these...also clever.

       

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Why did Nestle Waters leave McCloud ?

As an employee at Nestle Waters North America I have been reading many of the posting which describe the reasons and rationale as to why we decided not to continue pursuing the building of a water bottling facility in the McCloud area of California.   There have even been some people on the internet that have posted theories and speculation that somewhat surprise me. 

What I have seen is that whether you are happy or disappointed that we decided to drop our proposal seems to be based on your perspective on a project that started way back in 2003. And honestly the comments all over the place are mixed.

So in an effort to promote the truth I wanted to provide to you a link to an open letter to the McCloud Community Services District and the McCloud Community written by the CEO of Nestle Waters North America - Kim Jeffery. 

See the full article here

I feel after reading the letter he writes we've made a good decision for all those involved for all the right reasons.

Agree/Disagree?  As always I love to hear your comments.

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CSR Minute: August 4, 2009 - Music Fans on Climate Change, Anti-Bottled Water Ads, Timberland Nixes Amazon Leather

Corporate Social Responsibility Minute: Music Fans on Climate Change, Anti-Bottled Water Ads, Timberland Nixes Amazon Leather

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Bottled Bullshit

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Bottled water causes blindness in puppies.

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Spreading white lies about bottled water

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Bottled Water , Tapped the movie and my perspective....

Being in a role at Nestle Waters North America which focuses on web/web strategy I came across a posting on YouTube for a new film called Tapped. 

After sitting through the 6 minute video trailer at first I wasn't sure what I was feeling.  There are some very powerful statements and emotions elicited from the video and I found myself with questions.  So being lucky enough to have access to many different people at my company I have the ability to get answers to those questions. Before I went looking for answers though I stepped back and asked myself about why I work here. Now I want to disclose once again that I have been an employee of Nestle Waters for well over 12 years and have seen the debate over bottled water go on for some time now and have come to a very simple conclusion for myself and my family.  We like drinking water.  Bottled or not - water is important to our us.

I'm comfortable in my own beliefs and trust myself to know what is best for me and my family. Water (bottled or not) is an important part of our lives so when it comes to being healthy we drink water.  As anybody who visits this site knows I have a young daughter and I want her to have the best of everything I can provide.  Her health and wellness is something we consider in the choices we make on a daily basis.  And one of those choices is to provide to her a healthy drink. 

At home we drink water - the well water we have isn't the best so we tend to drink bottled water. I know I could get a filter but the issue isn't needing a filter but more about what's in the water. When we go out as a family more often than not we drink water.  If we go to a restaurant we'll choose tap water if it's available as a drink instead of soda or juice.  If we go to a place where tap water isn't easily available I'll take the convenience route and grab a couple of bottles of water from a vendor or a local store.  If you don't like me for supporting a local businessperson or vendor I don’t know what to tell you. 

I know, I know I can carry around a Sigg bottle or something similar but honestly I'd rather hold my daughters hand than hold on to one of those big empty bottles. Sure I can throw it into a backpack but again - I like the convenience and when I am out and see the people around me drinking from bottled water bottles I know I'm not alone.

When it comes to recycling it's an even bigger issue.  I recycle wherever I can whenever I can.  This means I look for places where I can recycle my bottles when I am out in public.  

Now it's not always easy and I'll admit at times I'll throw a bottle away into the garbage because I can't find a recycling container. Usually it's when keeping the bottle isn't practical.  But I'm trying to get better at it and if at all possible you should be trying as well.  As a country we struggle doing a good job of recycling. Maybe it's because recycling isn't available in your community maybe it's because the process is inconvenient or maybe we're just plan lazy.  No matter what the reason it's just an excuse.  If we were just a little better at recycling the impact we could make would be tremendous.  Just think of all the playground stuff, carpeting and fleece jackets that could be made from those bottles.

Back to Tapped.  It's great for anybody to have an opinion and obviously there are many people who believe that Bottled water and the companies that produce them are these big evil companies but I know better.  I have been lucky enough to work with people not just from Nestle Waters here in the US but our sister companies and our parent company Nestle worldwide.  And I can tell you I have never met anybody here who doesn't care about our customers.

I'm a realist and know that at the end of the day it's still a business and of course any business wants to make money.  And, keep people employed. The people I work with come in every day trying to bring the best product to market in the most environmentally friendly, sustainable way possible and I realize that Nestle can do better.  The company has admitted it's trying to do better and is on record setting goals for itself - go look them up. 

When I see and hear things that imply that bottled water has no place in our society I can't understand it.  Throw out the times when its available for disaster relief , boil alerts and the like.  We can debate those all day long.   We can also debate why it's ok for any other beverage to be put in a bottle and shipped around vs. bottled water.  I could always provide you tons of metrics and reasons as to the good things that bottle water and the companies that produce it do for their consumers and the communities they reside in but I don't want to go there.  I am not trying to persuade you - I'm just letting you know there are at least two sides to every story.

In the end to me it's a matter of choice.   I have as much right to buy that bottle of water as you have not to buy it. Go ahead and yell and scream about it - I know better.

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Why did they ban bottled water in Bundanoon??

I was reading an article about the Bottled Water Ban in Bundanoon (say that 5 times quickly) and I came upon a quote following this link http://bit.ly/iMZaw

"What most upset the residents was a plan to build a water-extraction plant in town. "Residents," reports the AP, "were furious over the prospect of an outsider taking their water, trucking it up to Sydney for processing and then selling it back to them."

Let me get this straight.  They have been dealing with bottled water for years without any reported issues but when a company came along that wanted to extract water from the land their reaction was to ban all bottled water sales (but it's still ok to bring it into town from the outside).  Does this make sense to anybody?  Reading all the reactions this has been getting I would have thought that their main reason was because of the environmental impacts, not because they didn't want it to be trucked out of town and sold back to them.

I'd love to see a local journalist dig deeper into learn more about the negotiations between the town and the company.  It wouldn't surprise me to hear that the town just didn't like the deal they were being offered and in turn banned bottled water.   If that was true I would what would have happened if they had been offered a sweeter deal? 

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