+joecoool100 - these corporations are doing what they are designed to do, make a profit, the problem is when government becomes their "partner" and allows them make money at the expense and/or detriment of the constituent or consumer. government is supposed to be protecting their people, not privately getting rich off them. most of these right wing governors like rick snyder, rick scott, scott walker, chris christie, john kasich, etc., etc., are using their office as personal cash machines and literally don't give a rats ass about the people who they are supposed to serve.
After hearing this story i will never buy anything from Nestle and will share this to all friends and family, to do the same. Without us, the people, Nestlé has nothing. Any way, their chocolate and cerials are pants.
+vintage stereo I pay an average of $35 a month year-round--so yeah, $140 a month if plain ridiculous, especially since they live right next to one of the largest bodies of fresh water in the world. Those are more like Southern California prices, and they've been under a drought for years.
Fiji water too! The people have sewer water to use, while the water plant is stealing their natural resource. Bechtel in Equador even made it a crime to save rain water.
They give away clean water for free so that a corporation can sell it back to the people they took it from for a HUGE profit...only Nestle...The CEO Peter Brabeck already wants to own all the water in the world and keep it under his house, but all jokes a side he does believe that water is not a human right, Flint is just another example. Nestle pays approximately .50 cents per gallon of water that they then resell for millions of dollars in free profits on top of the millions of dollars they don’t pay in taxes. I believe in Michigan all they pay is 5k for a permit and get a tax cut of almost 13 million, Nestle is just as evil as Monsanto.
The most disturbing thing in this video to me was the FBI serving the company against its own citizens when the company was challenged, if that doesn't tell the state of our affairs then you deserve what is coming down the line.
Next look at the video about how Nestle's CEO says that water is not a human right. It should be privatized because only corporations understand its true value
The great culling is a movie on TH-cam about drinking water if your interested in this topic watch it and inform everyone you love you. Everyone in our nation needs to watch it's so sad
This is late, but I'm here from an environmental science class... definitely flush, but no need to flush urine every single time! Toilets make up the most domestic water use (about 30% in the US, Canada, and UK), so flushing less helps with water conservation. You can leave urine in the toilet for a few hours (with the lid down) before flushing it. In fact, less flushing = lessened spread of germs (toilets spray when flushed).
Coming from "socialist" Europe I can only say that this story shocked me and I'm glad my state prevents such exploitation of public good. I come from Slovenia and a few years ago, the right to water was added into our constitution. Capitalism must be regulated people, wake up
+Nancy Mesek America is forever doomed until Americans stand up and fight. The same is coming to every country on earth, after the oligarchy succeeds in stamping its boot on Americans. There is no where to run to in the end.
+Nancy Mesek It is the whole world now. These corporate criminals are suffocating and raping the world...But people coming together is effective as Murdoch and corporate media like to tell us we are 'powerless' but we are not, we are powerful and can boycott and speak out...No customers, no money, these corporations don't exist. ; ) K
What a great country for the rich. This is insane. How does the government work for the people? Someone please tell me. It is very obvious they do not.
This is true also in California - during the drought!!! They just won in Mt. Shasta of all places!!! Local officials (known locally as "the 40 Thieves" and who are descended largely from the early white thugs who massacred local Indian tribes and seized their land in the 1850s and '60s) supported the bottling plant there! Mt. Shasta sits at the Headwaters of the Sacramento River - the Biggest Watershed in California!
This is where a little socialism would be great. The people locally would own their own water. They could tell nestle to take a hike... take over nestle wells themselves
I have read of Nestlé & I do not purchase anything made by Nestlé. .. I have posted on FB.... If I write to Walmart or HEB about NOT selling these items....they won't listen. If WE STOP BUYING maybe THEY will listen....Please!!! WE THE PEOPLE!!!!
Yet another reason to buy a reusable water bottle. Mine's top-rack dish-washer safe, freezer safe, hooks onto my belt-loop, is free of the toxic chemicals found in the plastic of normal water bottles, and cost me the princely sum of eight bucks. I just fill it up with tap water (it's well-regulated where I live). Good for the planet, good for my health, and good for my wallet.
I have favored DeerPark and IceMountain “spring” water for years now, knowing that Nestle was not very reputable. I had NO idea they were this evil! It’s time to find a new bottled water source and boycott these Corporate Criminals! But, I would also have to believe that whoever gave Nestle permission to start pumping the water in the beginning are equally to blame.
Governor Jennifer Granholm [D] had a hand in this. Tell MORE of the story! Dec. 2003: "Granholm's environment & economic advisors shut out a citizens group & AIDED NESTLE in a two-year-old David and Goliath legal struggle that affects all of Michigan. By convincing a state appellate panel to stay a lower court decision, the administration effectively helped Nestle Waters North America win something the company lost after a grueling, 19-day circuit court trial earlier this year. Nestle can keep pumping millions of gallons of spring water from wells in central Michigan’s Mecosta County."
Simple, nestle corrupted politics with money. A quite effective lobby. Politicians only serve companies that donate to their campaign. I tell you this, my water bill in Michigan averages $75.oo a,month.
To paraphrase a vintage Nestle's Chocolate broadcast commercial jingle, N~E~S~T~L~E~S ~~ Nestle steals Earth's very best ... water. Too in California and India.
Control the maggots of society before its to late (the greedy disgusting politics and corporations) through legislation at the Supreme Court levels in Canada/USA. Enough capitalism over common sense making the 1% wealthy while the rest of us play slave at their maggoty criminal corporations.
You should have Moses West on your show. Mr. West invented atmospheric water. He prom 100K per day of free water for Flint Michigan. His fresh free water making machines were vandalized. Yes, Flint citizens were able to get free fresh water. Machicnes were professionally vandalized
Nestle owes billions and billions of dollars to that region for resources taken, to hear a private landowner has no restriction on quantity of water taken from the aquifers is unimaginable, how can a resource that precious not be being protected???? Nestle should have had to go through a deal making process with the EPA, the state and local government, found a source through that deal that was state determined and owned, and the company pay a reasonable fee for water taken, process overseen and protected by the EPA, and if the state has an emergency like in flint they be permitted to commandeer the process to provide that local water to local people in need, for a price or waiver of nestle payments.
I'm not sure who I should be mad at. The politician or Nestle. It's like you pay for your tax and water but you still have to pay for water bottle if you want drinkable water. It's almost like LA, where I pay for my registration sticker for the road but yet, I'll have to pay if I want to use the HOV lane and the HOV road took up 2 lines and cause congestion.
Well... It’s been years since this video was made and Nestle is STIll pumping water out but NOW its 400 gallons a minute. The permit to do this is about $400 per year. If you think Nestle gives a crap about what people think, you’re sadly mistaken. How do i know? I worked there for 10 years. Truth of the matter is, as long as people buy it and they can make money at it, they are going to do it. NOW, as bad as it sound that they are doing this, i can tell you that just up the road, YOPLAIT uses just as much water if not more. 45 miles east, GERBER (another nestle company) uses more water. If there’s a market, Nestle will screw you and anyone else to make that money. A production manager said “you people need to understand, Nestle don’t exist to provide you a job or to help people, it simply exists to provide a positive return on the shareholders investment. The minute that stops, we close the doors”. Sounds simple. People need to stop buying the shit. Just keep in mind.. if you ever buy a soda pop, a beer, a Gatorade etc, that water also comes from somewhere. Where do you draw the line? Just askin..
I've been boycotting Nestle and their sub-companies for over 2 years now. We still have the power of choice in our wallets/bank accounts. Let's play by the capitalistic rules, if democracy has been sold out.
The company can be registered anywhere in the world [especially because of the taxes] Shareholders can be from all around the world as well. So there is no"nation" to point the finger to and blame. There is only greed and fear. The only thing to do is: stop giving them your money.
This should never have been allowed. Water is the source of life and no one should ever have exclusive rights to this universal commodity. What next? Making fresh air exclusive to the rich corporations??? so the rest of us poor people have to pay for out breathing??
These women are badasses!!!!! I applaud them! It sucks I'm only finding out about this now, in 2023. Remember, Nestle owns Purina, who makes horrible quality cat and dog food. PLEASE, don't feed your pets anything by Purina!!!!!
The more you find out about Flint's water situation the more you can see that American politics is not working on behalf of the people. It's time for a political revolution, and I want to elect Bernie Sanders in order to get the movement started.
I refuse to buy a single Nestle product and I will not buy bottled water. Consumers have the power to end this but we have to stand together
I WILL NEVER BUY ANOTHER THING MARKED NESTLE AS LONG AS I LIVE!!!!
+joecoool100 - these corporations are doing what they are designed to do, make a profit, the problem is when government becomes their "partner" and allows them make money at the expense and/or detriment of the constituent or consumer. government is supposed to be protecting their people, not privately getting rich off them. most of these right wing governors like rick snyder, rick scott, scott walker, chris christie, john kasich, etc., etc., are using their office as personal cash machines and literally don't give a rats ass about the people who they are supposed to serve.
+joecoool100 That is the power you have
Big deal. They get it free. Your not hurting them even if u destroy all their wAter.
HeyGuy4321 You have something to learn about big business, if you can affect a companys bottom line by half a percent you can change everthing
+joecoool100 You got it. Boycotting will always get the needed attention!
I am 64 years old. When I was a child (1960's), NO ONE bought bottled water, it generally was not present in stores / available !
I am sooooooooo upset this is crazy!! Thank God for these brave women!
I love you Amy Goodman and all of you at Democracy Now. Thank you for fighting for us.
And Nestle does this worldwide. I applaud those ladies. There is no politics in sight who could do anything about this.
After hearing this story i will never buy anything from Nestle and will share this to all friends and family, to do the same. Without us, the people, Nestlé has nothing. Any way, their chocolate and cerials are pants.
140$ a month for water is absurd, water shouldn't cost more as 25 a month
+vintage stereo I pay an average of $35 a month year-round--so yeah, $140 a month if plain ridiculous, especially since they live right next to one of the largest bodies of fresh water in the world. Those are more like Southern California prices, and they've been under a drought for years.
Fiji water too! The people have sewer water to use, while the water plant is stealing their natural resource. Bechtel in Equador even made it a crime to save rain water.
They give away clean water for free so that a corporation can sell it back to the people they took it from for a HUGE profit...only Nestle...The CEO Peter Brabeck already wants to own all the water in the world and keep it under his house, but all jokes a side he does believe that water is not a human right, Flint is just another example. Nestle pays approximately .50 cents per gallon of water that they then resell for millions of dollars in free profits on top of the millions of dollars they don’t pay in taxes. I believe in Michigan all they pay is 5k for a permit and get a tax cut of almost 13 million, Nestle is just as evil as Monsanto.
The most disturbing thing in this video to me was the FBI serving the company against its own citizens when the company was challenged, if that doesn't tell the state of our affairs then you deserve what is coming down the line.
Nestle did the same in California. Seems the water business is really good.
+James Fletcher Sure, stealing "we the People's" water, and selling it back to 'earthlings.' Capitalism kills common sense.
+neilemac Crony capitalism (i.e. corporatism
0. WWithout government exemptions and protections Nestle would not be as big a problem as it is.
+James Fletcher That's why the Bushes bought property in Paraguay. We should have all seen it coming then.
Did; was waiting to exhale, haha.
+James Fletcher Nestle wanted to in Oregon, but so far its been halted by the governor.
God Bless these women!
+D Ned I love American people and these two women(and not these only) proving my feelings right!But your(and ours,of course)governments suck big time!
Imagine having to purchase water that already belongs to you.
Next look at the video about how Nestle's CEO says that water is not a human right. It should be privatized because only corporations understand its true value
As to convert it into an osteoporotic product, carbonated beverage water, soda.
The great culling is a movie on TH-cam about drinking water if your interested in this topic watch it and inform everyone you love you. Everyone in our nation needs to watch it's so sad
these women are my hero-- wow this is eye opening-- and very clear to see the outrageous corruption
Corruption is getting thicker and deeper... Oh, and don't forget to flush..
This is late, but I'm here from an environmental science class... definitely flush, but no need to flush urine every single time!
Toilets make up the most domestic water use (about 30% in the US, Canada, and UK), so flushing less helps with water conservation. You can leave urine in the toilet for a few hours (with the lid down) before flushing it. In fact, less flushing = lessened spread of germs (toilets spray when flushed).
The Biggest threat to companies like this one is information. Not Hype and emotion. Information that is resourced , verifiable and without bias.
Coming from "socialist" Europe I can only say that this story shocked me and I'm glad my state prevents such exploitation of public good. I come from Slovenia and a few years ago, the right to water was added into our constitution. Capitalism must be regulated people, wake up
I want to cry. This is not the America I grew up in.
+Nancy Mesek 'Fraid it is. However, they usually just inflicted this sort of thing upon your red and black neighbours.
+Luke O'Brien I always thought I'd move back one day, but there's no way I'd even consider it unless Bernie is President.
+Nancy Mesek America is forever doomed until Americans stand up and fight. The same is coming to every country on earth, after the oligarchy succeeds in stamping its boot on Americans. There is no where to run to in the end.
+dipojones I agree. They're trying to bring fracking over here too.
+Nancy Mesek It is the whole world now. These corporate criminals are suffocating and raping the world...But people coming together is effective as Murdoch and corporate media like to tell us we are 'powerless' but we are not, we are powerful and can boycott and speak out...No customers, no money, these corporations don't exist. ; ) K
😲😳😠 Thank you Ladies for all your work.
What a great country for the rich. This is insane. How does the government work for the people? Someone please tell me. It is very obvious they do not.
+Joseph Chavis The government is in bed with corporations they are owned by corporations, governments are corporations.
Joseph Chavis add me on social Justice network Facebook
Water is a gift from God, most people have forgotten that Korporations are Evil.
This is true also in California - during the drought!!! They just won in Mt. Shasta of all places!!!
Local officials (known locally as "the 40 Thieves" and who are descended largely from the early white thugs who massacred local Indian tribes and seized their land in the 1850s and '60s) supported the bottling plant there! Mt. Shasta sits at the Headwaters of the Sacramento River - the Biggest Watershed in California!
Nestle also wants to make catching Rain Water on your own property Illegal.
Catching rain water would be the consumer's last resort defense against Nestle's reducing them to drinking water from a polluted public reservoir.
Go, GO, Girls a lots of respect.
Love from France
Why isn't Nestle under criminal investigation
This is heartbreaking to realize.
why is there only women over 60 who are fighting this, and why hasn't michigan's gov been jailed?
+William Stephens
Do you mean Jennifer Granholm [D] ? It was SHE that abetted Nestle.
Look on-line. 2003.
My eyes just popped out: $140/month for the Flint city citizens? Omg
Criminals run the show, and the show must go on, so sad what America has become.
This is where a little socialism would be great. The people locally would own their own water. They could tell nestle to take a hike... take over nestle wells themselves
Nestle is a terrifying company.
Those cut away questions are uncalled for but they help to break up the documentary.
I have read of Nestlé & I do not purchase anything made by Nestlé. .. I have posted on FB.... If I write to Walmart or HEB about NOT selling these items....they won't listen. If WE STOP BUYING maybe THEY will listen....Please!!! WE THE PEOPLE!!!!
Yet another reason to buy a reusable water bottle.
Mine's top-rack dish-washer safe, freezer safe, hooks onto my belt-loop, is free of the toxic chemicals found in the plastic of normal water bottles, and cost me the princely sum of eight bucks.
I just fill it up with tap water (it's well-regulated where I live).
Good for the planet, good for my health, and good for my wallet.
They pulled the same shit in California, which, as we all well know is in a dire drought!!
I think its time for the people to take back control of what is theirs this bull shit is going on all over the world
*WTF?! GET OUT, NESTLE!!!*
I have favored DeerPark and IceMountain “spring” water for years now, knowing that Nestle was not very reputable.
I had NO idea they were this evil! It’s time to find a new bottled water source and boycott these Corporate Criminals! But, I would also have to believe that whoever gave Nestle permission to start pumping the water in the beginning are equally to blame.
Amy fits right in with these ladies
Nestle is still selling infant formula in impoverished countries.
Governor Jennifer Granholm [D] had a hand in this. Tell MORE of
the story!
Dec. 2003: "Granholm's environment & economic advisors shut out a
citizens group & AIDED NESTLE in a two-year-old David and Goliath
legal struggle that affects all of Michigan.
By convincing a state appellate panel to stay a lower court decision,
the administration effectively helped Nestle Waters North America win
something the company lost after a grueling, 19-day circuit court trial
earlier this year. Nestle can keep pumping millions of gallons of spring
water from wells in central Michigan’s Mecosta County."
Why aren’t we looking at the Michigan and county officials who allowed Nestle to do this?
Simple, nestle corrupted politics with money. A quite effective lobby.
Politicians only serve companies that donate to their campaign.
I tell you this, my water bill in Michigan averages $75.oo a,month.
To paraphrase a vintage Nestle's Chocolate broadcast commercial jingle, N~E~S~T~L~E~S ~~ Nestle steals Earth's very best ... water. Too in California and India.
I Agree!!
shameless gov't leaders & officials
Nestle CEO - "Water is not a human right"....Google it.
Control the maggots of society before its to late (the greedy disgusting politics and corporations) through legislation at the Supreme Court levels in Canada/USA. Enough capitalism over common sense making the 1% wealthy while the rest of us play slave at their maggoty criminal corporations.
Jesse Ventura and others pointed this out years ago regarding the pumping of water from the lake.
Sharing, Justice and Peace for all - Save Our Planet.
Destroy this company now
we need more ppl like this to take out the garbage.
Everyone needs to go on strike on nestle products
what's the best water to buy
You should have Moses West on your show. Mr. West invented atmospheric water. He prom 100K per day of free water for Flint Michigan. His fresh free water making machines were vandalized. Yes, Flint citizens were able to get free fresh water. Machicnes were professionally vandalized
Nestle owes billions and billions of dollars to that region for resources taken, to hear a private landowner has no restriction on quantity of water taken from the aquifers is unimaginable, how can a resource that precious not be being protected???? Nestle should have had to go through a deal making process with the EPA, the state and local government, found a source through that deal that was state determined and owned, and the company pay a reasonable fee for water taken, process overseen and protected by the EPA, and if the state has an emergency like in flint they be permitted to commandeer the process to provide that local water to local people in need, for a price or waiver of nestle payments.
I'm not sure who I should be mad at.
The politician or Nestle. It's like you pay for your tax and water but you still have to pay for water bottle if you want drinkable water.
It's almost like LA, where I pay for my registration sticker for the road but yet, I'll have to pay if I want to use the HOV lane and the HOV road took up 2 lines and cause congestion.
THEY WANT TO PRIVATIZE THE WATER!?!?!
Having a politician for dinner anyone? I'm hungry! What? I cant eat people? YES! Politicians and gravy!
Boycott them
Well... It’s been years since this video was made and Nestle is STIll pumping water out but NOW its 400 gallons a minute. The permit to do this is about $400 per year. If you think Nestle gives a crap about what people think, you’re sadly mistaken. How do i know? I worked there for 10 years. Truth of the matter is, as long as people buy it and they can make money at it, they are going to do it.
NOW, as bad as it sound that they are doing this, i can tell you that just up the road, YOPLAIT uses just as much water if not more. 45 miles east, GERBER (another nestle company) uses more water.
If there’s a market, Nestle will screw you and anyone else to make that money. A production manager said “you people need to understand, Nestle don’t exist to provide you a job or to help people, it simply exists to provide a positive return on the shareholders investment. The minute that stops, we close the doors”. Sounds simple. People need to stop buying the shit.
Just keep in mind.. if you ever buy a soda pop, a beer, a Gatorade etc, that water also comes from somewhere. Where do you draw the line? Just askin..
These are great ladies! They make America great, not Washington or the President!
What total legendary ladies , God damn awesome them taken on nestle
Yet mainstream media did n report this story my first time seeing this oitrage
Made me Cry!
I would cut of the water and refuse to pay the water rates or go of the grid all together.
What are pasties? Pasties are as common as hamburgers in England and Australia.
for real, we didn't have fresh water problems until they started selling it for a dollar for 12oz
Not surprised after hearing Nestle CEO say water shouldn't be free
And still I see idiots buying Nestle products
Yes Michigan!
God bless you ,
I've been boycotting Nestle and their sub-companies for over 2 years now. We still have the power of choice in our wallets/bank accounts.
Let's play by the capitalistic rules, if democracy has been sold out.
LOBBYIST. that says it all.
Boycott Nestlé ...don't buy any of their shit .....
BOYCOTT NESTLES
Nestlé the German compamy is stealing our water in Maine .iMaines electric power system is also foreign owned and privatized .
It's a Swiss company. Not German.
The company can be registered anywhere in the world [especially because of the taxes] Shareholders can be from all around the world as well. So there is no"nation" to point the finger to and blame. There is only greed and fear. The only thing to do is: stop giving them your money.
This should never have been allowed. Water is the source of life and no one should ever have exclusive rights to this universal commodity. What next? Making fresh air exclusive to the rich corporations??? so the rest of us poor people have to pay for out breathing??
lovesallweneed Yes, it is happening here soon.
1:10 They should have spoke with Debra longer...
Then we wonder water lakes are drying up.
It is great to see and hear real women.
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Privatizing water! Please, slow that down. Pri va tize the water. Explain to the public what that mean
Check out Flow: For the Love of Water
These women are badasses!!!!! I applaud them! It sucks I'm only finding out about this now, in 2023. Remember, Nestle owns Purina, who makes horrible quality cat and dog food. PLEASE, don't feed your pets anything by Purina!!!!!
HEROES!!!
its happening all over the US
time for a revolution
The water under the plant IS NOT YOURS!!!!
id refuse to pay and move out of flint
the way i see it ppl shouldn't have to pay for housing for living in Flint & the surrounding states that this poison water flows into!
Blow up their bottling plants and pump stations
FBI? Why was the FBI involved.
Boycott Nestle!
How the fuck has noone burnt nestle to the ground yet? Im thoroughly apaulled.
Michigan Citizen for Water Conservation
The more you find out about Flint's water situation the more you can see that American politics is not working on behalf of the people. It's time for a political revolution, and I want to elect Bernie Sanders in order to get the movement started.
dont buy nestle shit
There is more than enough primary water. In fact no one should be drinking treated water. Primary water is abundant.