While Flint drinks poison, Nestlé is pumping 200 gallons of fresh water out of Michigan every minute

[KamaAina]

https://community.sumofus.org/petitions/while-flint-drinks-poison-nestle-is-pumping-out-200-gallons-of-fresh-water-every-minute

The entire community is living in fear -- all because Governor Rick Snyder wanted to save money, and switched the city's water supply from one of the largest and cleanest water supplies in the world to the highly corrosive Flint River.

Meanwhile, Michigan’s Governor has been cozying up with Nestlé, allowing it to pump 200 gallons of fresh water every minute out of the state’s reserves.

Nestlé is the largest owner of private water sources in Michigan -- water the people of Flint sorely need – and the water-guzzling corporation has deep ties to Governor Rick Snyder’s office. This is the same office that thought nothing off undermining the public system that was supposed to keep the people of Flint safe.

Deb Muchmore, the head spokesperson for Nestlé Michigan, is married to Governor Snyder’s chief of staff. As Michael Moore wrote recently, "The Muchmores have a personal interest in seeing to it that Nestlé grabs as much of Michigan's clean water as possible.”

[daleanime]

1. ......

[MagickMuffin]

2. If ever there is a need to boycott a corporation.

It would be this one. Water for profit above all else!

Perhaps We The People need to conduct a corporate shaming of these greedy moreforme family.

indeed!

[KamaAina]

3. Easier said than done

There are other sources of candy, of course, but they own lots of other stuff like DiGiorno and Stouffer's.

[MagickMuffin]

4. Well we should publicly tar them with the water issue.

That is the most outrageous crime here, imho.

We really don't consider how much of the water supplied for the bottle water industry is interfering with our public water system. If the money used for bottled water was used on public water, there would be no need for bottled water.

It would save the landfills from all the disposable bottles that get thrown out to eliminating the greed factor of corporate overlords owning our water supply.

[Vinca]

5. Madeline Albright needs to change her message. If anyone's going to hell it's Rick Snyder.

[Blueguyinthesky]

6. Wow

[cbdo2007]

7. President Obama should make an executive order taking over the Nestle plant

and diverting all the water to Flint because of a public crisis.

[Andy823]

8. Another reason

To make damn sure voters turn out and get rid of every republican governor they can this year, and every year they are up for election. Republicans have been working over time to take over state governments, and all you have to do is look at those states to see just how much damage they have done. The only way to stop them, is for voters to turn out in recored numbers and remove them!

[Kaleva]

9. Shutting down the Nestle plant wouldn't make any difference for Flint

Flint used to get its water from the Detroit system which was fed by Lake Huron and the Detroit River. The Nestle plant is located in Mecosta County which is some 120 miles away from Flint.

200 gallons a minute, or 288,000 gallons a day is just drop in the bucket compared to what Flint uses.


"By October 2014, when the Flint plant ended operations, it pumped just 16 million gallons (61,000 m3) daily.[5]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_water_crisis

[Bonx]

11. But we need to demonize an evil corporation or something here

[hfojvt]

10. actually if the community is living in fear

it is because a dishonest and incompetent media is stirring up fear for their own profit and perhaps political purposes.

http://dailyhowler.blogspot.com/2016/02/supplemental-its-time-for-maddow-to-get.html

[bbgrunt]

12. please tell me that Deb Muchmore is a made up name. That name and this story is

like a nightmarish, fictional morality story.