{"id":33947,"date":"2018-05-04T06:12:43","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T11:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33947"},"modified":"2018-05-04T06:12:43","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T11:12:43","slug":"nestles-profits-trump-clean-water-in-flint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33947","title":{"rendered":"Nestl\u00e9\u2019s Profits Trump Clean Water in Flint"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nestl\u00e9\u2019s Profits Trump Clean Water in Flint<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Screw the people of Flint<\/em>, or so goes the mantra of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), which last month approved a controversial permit that will allow Nestl\u00e9 to pump and bottle 400 gallons of fresh water per minute from the state\u2019s White Pine Springs, near the Osceola Township. Meanwhile, back in Flint, residents still aren\u2019t buying the Governor\u2019s bullshit that their water is safe to drink.<\/p>\n

The privatization of the public\u2019s water is only becoming more prevalent as reservoirs dry up around the globe. Bottled water sales have skyrocketed<\/a> in the last ten years while access to fresh, affordable H20 has decreased. In places like Cape Town, South Africa, which is in the midst of a dire water shortage, it\u2019s not just climate change that\u2019s making the city quench for thirst \u2014 the impoverished can\u2019t afford private water but residents with money are able to subsidize their meager rations.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany of the rich own water-bottling companies, they can afford to buy water,\u201d Ebrahiem Fourie of the Cape Town Housing Assembly recently told<\/a> journalist Dahr Jamail. \u201cThe available ground water [springs] are usually in affluent areas, which makes them easy to access, and with the current water restrictions the rich have cars to load their water.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mega-corporations like Coca-Cola and Nestl\u00e9 may seem like a nice solution for communities that don\u2019t have access to clean drinking water. Their water is potable, portable and generally safe. However, as we are witnessing in Cape Town, private companies in the water business cater to those with cash. The poor are left out to dry. Deals like Nestl\u00e9 is scoring in Michigan won\u2019t fix the water problem in Flint \u2014 which is one of the poorest communities in the nation \u2014 it will likely exacerbate it.<\/p>\n

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Nestl\u00e9\u2019s Profits Trump Clean Water in Flint Screw the people of Flint, or so goes the mantra of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), which last month approved a controversial permit that will allow Nestl\u00e9 to pump and bottle 400 gallons of fresh water per minute from the state\u2019s White Pine Springs, near the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8127,5493,11077,1676,17772,11078,7283,866],"class_list":["post-33947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-bottled-water","tag-counterpunch","tag-flint","tag-great-lakes","tag-joshua-frank","tag-michigan","tag-nestle","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33948,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33947\/revisions\/33948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}