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Privatizing a Basic Human Right: Water

Source: ReadtheDirt.org

By: Young Writers 

By Samuel Bliss

[ReadtheDirt.org] Editor’s Note: One of our young and empowered voices—Samuel Bliss—gives us a run down on the issue of bottled water in the Northwest. Even if we don’t want to admit it, the Northwest is not immune from large corporations acquiring rights to its water. This piece complements our previous piece “Bottle the Skagit River?”.

Sam Bliss is a junior studying Environmental Economics and Spanish at Western [...]

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Nestlé Still Searching the Area for Water Source

Sept. 03, 2008

Bonney Lake and Sumner Courier Herald

Given the cold shoulder by the city of Enumclaw, the giant Nestlé Corporation has not abandoned its quest of locating a bottling plant in the Pacific Northwest – in fact, the company hasn’t turned away from South King County.

The city of Black Diamond has caught the attention of Nestlé and Dave Palais, the natural resource manager for Nestlé Water North America. Palais appeared before the Black Diamond City [...]

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