Nestle is one of eight nominees to Corporate Accountability International’s 2008 Hall of Shame , in part due to their water bottling abuses. Click here to find out more about the other candidates for the Hall of Shame, and to vote for your top three most abusive corporations of 2008!
Click Here And Take The Pledge To Think Outside The Bottle
* Because water is a human right and not a commodity to be bought and sold for profit;
* Because bottled water corporations are changing the very way people think about water and undermining people's confidence in public water systems;
* Because up to 40% of bottled water in the U.S. and Canada is sourced from municipal tap water;
* Because some bottlers have run over communities' concerns and the environment when they extract water and build bottling plants to get local spring and ground water;
* Because bottled water travels many miles from the source, results in the burning of massive amounts of fossil fuels, and contributes to the billions of plastic bottles ending up in our landfills;
* Because worldwide there is a need for investments in public water systems to ensure equal access to water, a key ingredient for prosperity and health for all people; and
* Because solutions to ensuring water as a fundamental human right require people acting together and standing up for public water systems,
I Pledge to Think Outside the Bottle!
Tell Coke To Come Clean:
People across North America are calling on Coke to follow Pepsi’s lead and reveal the source of its Dasani bottled water. Dasani comes from the same source as public tap water, but is marketed to consumers at hundreds of times the cost.
And just last week Dasani received a not-so-coveted Consumers International Bad Product Award for pushing marketing "into the realms of the ridiculous".
So now is the time for Coke to come clean. In July, your phone calls and letters encouraged brand leader Aquafina (bottled by Pepsi) to label where its water was coming from. In November, your actions can turn the heat up in the Coke board room to act on our right to know.
Send an email to Coke demanding that they label where Dasani comes from and report on the quality of their water publicly: Click here for info on how to send a message to Coke CEO Neville Isdell
One minute can make a big difference in correcting Coke’s corporate abuses.
Background:
Think Outside the Bottle is a campaign of Corporate Accountability International.
Today, over a billion people around the world don't have access to safe water to drink. If current trends are not reversed, two-thirds of the world's people (that's five billion people!) won't have access to water by 2025.
While we see water as a fundamental human right, some of the world's most powerful corporations see water as a huge market ($420 BILLION and growing) ripe with profits.
We ultimately envision a world in which all people have access to enough safe water to meet their needs, where the human right to water is protected, and where water is controlled democratically for the public good, not as a commodity to be bought or sold.