Local politics, the county, and the world, as viewed by Tammy Maygra
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Is water a free and basic human right, or should all the water on the planet belong to major corporations and be treated as a product? Should the poor who cannot afford to pay these corporations suffer because they are poor?

Words from the horse's mouth and the former CEO and now Chairman of the largest food product manufacturer in the world, states ---corporations should own every drop of water on the planet. And he further adds you are not getting any water unless you pay for it.

The former Nestle CEO actually says that his idea of water privatization is very similar to Monsanto's GMOs which Nestle has funded pro GMO adds and we know they care little for people. With Nestles sales of over $35 billion worldwide in the bottled water market, corporations are doing whatever it takes to buy up pristine springs in some of our country's most beautiful places. Nestle controls one-third of the U.S. market and sells 70 different brand names -- such as Arrowhead, Calistoga, Deer Park, Perrier, Poland Spring and Ice Mountain -- which it draws from 75 springs located all over the country.

Here is broken down version of Nestles contract with the small town of McCloud near Mt. Shasta
A 50-year term, renewable for another 50 years

• The right to take 1,250 gallons per minute of spring water
  
• The right to take qualified water on an interim basis from district's springs for bulk delivery to other bottling facilities located in Northern California
  
• The right to construct pipelines and a loading facility
  
• Use of an unknown quantity of well water for production purposes
  
• Exclusive rights to one of the town's three springs
  
• One hundred years of exclusivity, during which time no other beverage business of any type may exist in McCloud
  
• Use of an undisclosed, perhaps unlimited amount of ground water
  
• The right to require the McCloud Community Service District to dispose of process wastewater
  
• The right to require the McCloud Community Service District to design, construct and install one or more ground water production wells on the bottling facility site forNestle's use as a supply for nonspring water purposes.