A couple months ago, Breaking the Set called out Nestlé corporation for its business practice of bloating the price of water while pursuing the privatization of this common resource against the public good.
Surprisingly, the corporation responded with a bizarre, sci-fi video message in which a woman named ‘Stephanie’ responds to the original report.
Breaking the Set reply to Nestlé:
Here is the original report:
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Here is an update on the story in British Columbia. The government is going to update it’s freshwater usage legislation; it may not be much, but it’s a start!
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/10/18/bc-water-act-climate-change-nestle_n_4124163.html
Recently, the people of Ontario convinced Nestle to drop it’s appeal of drought conditions on it’s water extraction privileges.
Not only that, the city of Bern in Switzerland, the land of Nestle, became the first in Europe to join the Blue Communities Project, which stands for everything Nestle opposes!
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/council-canadians/2013/10/nestl%C3%A9-bows-to-pressure-community-groups-on-bottled-water-f