Michigan OKs Nestlé Water Extraction, Despite 80K+ Public Comments Against It - Polidicks

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/03/599207550/michigan-oks-nestl-water-extraction-despite-over-80k-public-comments-against-it Story is a little old but didn't see a thread on it.

Pisses me off because I've been trying to boycott them but basically every place that sells bottled water is Nestle

Nestlé is the kind of company that would put a tax on breathable air and let the poor suffocate. I smell bribes.

It's almost like most governments do whatever big corporations want

you might be surprised how many lower and middle class people support any and all corporate endeavors

I generally avoid bottled water, but now I'm going to adamantly refuse it whenever it's offered in the hope of raising awareness about Nestle and its greed.

Unfortunately for places like Flint, Michigan or Pittsburgh, PA (where I live), water bottles are almost a necessity. I'm not sure if it's still the case, but last year, the lead content in the water here in Pittsburgh was actually HIGHER than in Flint, Michigan. My family drinks exclusively from either bottled water, or filtered, but I'm honestly even afraid to drink from the filtered water, and I'm worried about what showering in the water is doing to us. I really don't see it getting any better either, unless our city decided to replace all the piping in the entire city, which just isn't gonna happen.

Get yourself a nice refillable container and hell you can put ice in them too, and if they're built well they'll retain the chill for quite a long time unlike bottled water.

The only place I've been here people buy packs of bottled water is the US and Canada, why? You guys scared of tap water or something?

We've got it good in Aus

Let corporation set up shop to produce bottled water Neglect maintenance or improvements to the water mains Tap water becomes questionable for consumption, people are forced to buy bottled water from above corporation Profit.

It blows my fucking mind how a first world country can have entire cities where the tap water is not safe to drink.

what is a water filter

Nestlé is an often overlooked sinister company. They're definitely one of the companies in this world who would fit perfectly into a dystopian novel.

I used to live in Alice Springs. That stuff tastes like the smell of stink beetles and will leave a nice, hard mineral coating on the way down your throat.

How are they supposed to afford corporate tax cuts if they have to waste money on dumb stuff like fixing the water system?

Man, I really hope that a group of concerned citizens gets together to stop this from happening.

Yeah I guess the region's don't have it as good.

Good luck getting microparticles of lead and other heavy metals out with that Brita filter bub.

water filters shouldn't be a necessity

That's really unfortunate and I completely understand. Since I'm in a situation where I can easily obtain clean water, though, I'm going to do my best to make up for those who have no other choice than to buy bottled. Yep, I already have two! Just gotta remember to take them everywhere and explain to others why I'm not a fan of bottled water.

Because safe drinking water is a fucking privilege right

The only problem with that is you're still stuck to filling up in taps which are being reported to be unsafe to drink from...

i can't drink my tap water because it feels like it was filtered through sheet metal and dirt. If you go near savannah the water there just smells like total ass because they use sulfur filtering. Our water management systems are probably as old as when they were first put in the ground.

most countries have unsafe drinking water

Some more information, technically the people who approved this couldn't turn it down unless they had a valid reason. wrong paperwork, bad plan, etc. The law doesn't let them say no. Not defending nestle, but the michigan legislature needs to pass a better law to prevent this.

Just a reminder This is an american living in a first world country. Not a backwater democratic barely off the ground, this is america, and americans don't have fucking clean water.

Reverse osmosis filter.

That's the USA for you. Other 1st world countries invest in its people. Ours invests in ways to make money off its people

Still. I wouldnt trust anything shprt of a reverse osmosis filter for somewhere that allows lead in the water supply.