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By LESLIE MACMILLAN | April 6, 2012, 3:39 PM
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/06/a-difficult-choice-on-water/
Arizona’s two senators, John McCain and Jon Kyl, traveled to the Navajo reservation this week to meet with Navajo and Hopi tribal leaders about a proposed water rights accord that would settle the two tribes’ claims to the Little Colorado River system.
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Mr. Kyl and Mr. McCain have introduced a bill known as the Navajo-Hopi Little Colorado River Water Rights Settlement, which [...]
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By Andrew Theen - Mar 7, 2012 12:01 AM ET http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-07/ivy-colleges-shunning-bottled-water-jab-at-22-billion-industry.html Bottled water is coming under attack on college campuses. More than 90 schools, among them Brown University and Harvard University are banning the sale or restricting the use of plastic water bottles, unnerving the $22 billion retail packaged-water industry in the U.S. The University of Vermont is the latest to join the movement, announcing in January it would stop sales early next year. [...]
Continue reading Ivy Colleges Shunning Bottled Water Jab at $22 Billion Industry
By Miguel Llanos, msnbc.com
Activists concerned that Coca-Cola might be influencing National Park Service policy were breathing a bit easier Tuesday after the Grand Canyon National Park announced it would eliminate the sale of bottled water inside the park within 30 days.
full story here: http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/07/10340196-grand-canyon-banning-sales-of-bottled-water
01-10-2012
On Jan. 10, more than 250 Ohioans assembled on the west lawn of the Ohio Statehouse to voice their opposition to hydraulic fracturing—better known as fracking—and deep injection wastewater disposal wells.
Leading the charge was State Rep. Robert Hagan (D-Youngstown), who last week called on Gov. John Kasich (R-OH) in a letter to implement an indefinite moratorium on D&L Energy’s deep injection wells in Youngstown, Ohio, which has been rocked 11 times in the past nine months by earthquakes. [...]
Continue reading Ohioans Demand Fracking Moratorium at Ohio Statehouse Rally
Joe Stone, Mail Staff Writer | Posted: Friday, January 6, 2012 9:33 am
A substitute water supply plan filed Thursday by Nestlé Waters North America requests approval to augment out-of-priority depletions to the Arkansas River resulting from operations at Ruby Mountain Springs near Nathrop.
The request applies to the period from March 22, 2012, to March 21, 2013, and states that Nestlé will pump 196.08 acre-feet of water from the springs at a maximum rate of 200 gallons per minute [...]
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This article is about Nestle’s targetting of Latino communities to market bottled water. The article is entirely in Spanish, but you can look up more information at: http://www.stopcorporateabuse.org/node/1571
Empresas promueven producto con más energía entre los consumidores hispanos Róger Lindo | 2011-11-06 | La Opinión
Universidades, grupos comunitarios y líderes latinos han iniciado una campaña para contrarrestar lo que denominan las técnicas manipulativas de las compañías embotelladoras de agua para comercializarla entre los hispanos a precios muy superiores a los que [...]
Continue reading Tan Claro Como Agua Turbia (As Clear as Muddy Water)
As a major donor to the National Park Foundation, Coca Cola and the top federal parks official, Jon Jarvis, made the decision to undermine years worth of work to kick the bottle out of the Grand Canyon. Top Grand Canyon park official Stephen Martin and other officials have been working to stop the sale of bottles at the park for years. They see that bottles contribute the most to pollution of the park.
Defending Water for Life feels that favoring [...]
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Defending Water for Life is disappointed but not surprised to see this outcome from the Michigan Court of Appeals:
Why rights-based-ordinances are essential to actual protection: Courts follow laws that regulate environmental damage, they cannot prevent the damage from happening. And Nestle still complains because they’re not taking as much water per minute as they’d like… Here is the article:
Nestle Waters North America had a mixed reaction to an opinion recently issued by the Michigan Court of Appeals. The [...]
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October 21st, 2011 | Category: Legal, News, Other States, United States | By Ashley Portero | October 10, 2011 12:33 PM EDT
While Alabama’s recently upheld immigration law has been criticized by a number of organizations for provisions that are widely thought to be the harshest in the nation, there’s one measure that can be considered the most draconian of the bunch: namely, a line that has allowed at least one city to cut off clean water to residents who don’t have an Alabama driver’s license.
Under section 30 of the law, known [...]
Continue reading Alabama Immigration Law: Prove Citizenship or Lose Clean Water Supply
Dear Friends and Protectors of the Wacissa River Springs,
Incredible news! Nestle Waters just announced that they will not pursue commmercial water extraction at Allen Spring on Wacissa River. Thank you, thank you for your steadfast efforts!
WFSU-FM 88.9 radio will likely have story in morning. Also check www.tdo.com
You can also read www.floridaenvironments.com
We will share more news as it comes in. Please stay tuned. Protecting Florida’s springs long term is critical. We are just getting warmed up! [...]
Continue reading Victory in FL! Friends of the Wacissa Protected Springs from Nestle!
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