Dan Bacher, AlterNet. October 20, 2009. Grassroots community activists are mobilizing against the internationally boycotted corporation that is planning to bottle water in an already parched state.
Diane Farsetta, PR Watch. September 4, 2009. But the primary importance of water to life makes the corporate warping of water policy and philanthropy especially troubling.
Leslie Samuelrich, Corporate Accountability International AlterNet: Water. July 27, 2009. The water bottling giant has been dealt yet another set-back by the grassroots.
Jenny Tomkins, In These Times. July 13, 2009. Communities across the country are fighting back as Nestle tries to drain their water and their finances.
Wenonah Hauter, Food & Water Watch. July 8, 2009. The people have prevailed in this battle for control of their water resources, but the larger fight still continues.
Leslie Samuelrich, Corporate Accountability International. July 1, 2009. Multinational giant Nestle is trying to out-money Michigan citizens -- help stop the corporate water grab.
Richard Girard, Polaris Institute. June 15, 2009. Market reports predict that over the next four years sales of bottle water will grow most quickly in Asia, Latin America and Africa.
Deborah Lapidus, Corporate Accountability International. April 28, 2009. Nestlé's global bottled water sales declined by 1.6 percent thanks to the economy and mounting grassroots pressure.
Corporate Accountability InternationalApril 10, 2009. What's Nestle doing with the water in Michigan, California, Maine and other places? Hear the truth from the people who live there.
Richard Girard, Polaris Institute. March 11, 2009. These are desperate times indeed for bottled water companies, which means they're resorting to desperate measures.
Amy Vickers, AlterNet. August 5, 2008. In its attempts to strike blue gold, Nestle has pursued water extraction deals that have many locals seeing red.
AlterNet Staff, AlterNet. August 5, 2008. Here are two stories that show the huge impacts of bottled water and the pressure the industry is receiving lately from consumers and officials.
Richard Girard, Polaris Institute. June 26, 2008. The PET plastic bottles used for bottled water can all be traced back the world's biggest oil giants.
Tara Lohan, AlterNet. June 4, 2008. Author Elizabeth Royte talks about problems with bottled water, the safety of tap, concerns with drugs in the water and whether filters really work.
Elizabeth Royte, Bloomsbury USA. May 20, 2008. Elizabeth Royte's new book explains why bottled water is one of the greatest marketing coups of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Richard Girard, Polaris Institute. March 14, 2008. The big bottled water companies are trying to counter negative press by tying their products to charitable causes.
Michael Blanding, AlterNet. October 19, 2007. The bottled water industry is on the defensive as restaurant owners and cities are canceling their bottled water contracts and advocating for tap.
Tara Lohan, AlterNet. October 11, 2007. Thanks to global warming, pollution, population growth, and privatization, we are teetering on the edge of a global crisis.
