This graphic relates to the article because this is what citizens of Oregon are afraid of what will happen to the Columbia River Gorge after the Nestle company is done taking water from them.
Nestle owns the bottled water brands Poland Spring, Perrier, Pure Life, and Arrowhead. It is a very successful water company that has been taking water from different places around the U.S. freely. They are trying to tap over 100 million gallons of water from Oregon's Columbia River Gorge. Citizens of Oregon are angry and trying to stop this from happening. There have been more than 4,300 comments and letters pertaining to this situation from citizens of Oregon against Nestle tapping the river. Julia DeGraw, Northwest Organizer for Food & Water Watch said, "Oregon's water belongs to all of us and is too precious to sell off to a multinational bottling company with a track record of leaving some of the communities it enters in worse economic and environmental shape than it found them." Oregon citizens are afraid of what will happen to their drinking water after Nestle has left the river.
Nestle is the world's top-selling water bottle company, but I don't think they earned this fairly. This article relates to the video we saw in class about Nestle and how they were taking water in Maine, but I didn't know they were taking water in Oregon too. The article says that Nestle has tapped over 100 million gallons of water from Oregon's Columbia River Gorge, and that Oregon citizens aren't happy. I would not be happy about this either and do everything I could to try and save the river.
Should Nestle not be allowed to take water freely?
Do you think saving the river would be worth the lower profit of the Nestle company(having to lay off workers)?
How many people do you think are affected by this situation?
this is a prime example of human greed. nestle is just taking whatever they want. it doesn't seem like they even remotely care about what will happen to the areas that they are taking from! it's all about the money to them. today when i went to rock school my vocal teacher handed me a bottle of water, it was a product of nestle. i promptly handed it back and informed her of the things that nestle was doing and also how unsafe their water is. my vocal teacher was just about as outraged as i am about this issue. neither of us had heard about this until this class. it's an outrage that this stuff needs to be researched to be known. not only is it greedy, it's taking resources from an area while leaving it polluted. how could something like this be going on right under our noses?
ReplyDeleteThis is a perfect example of people doing only what benefits them. The people of Oregon obviously want Nestlie to stop tapping their water but Nestlie doesn't seem to care. At the least Nestlie should be charged to tap their water. If we don't stop them or at the very least chaarge them then they'll just keep taking as much water as they please.
ReplyDeleteDo you think anything will be done about the Nestlie company?
Do you believe water should be free to tap?
Do you think the Nestlie company will ever stop tapping so recklessly?