eighty million and it's still growing in the horror there are ten million people clean drinking water is in short supply. for miss lee introduced pure life bottled water was a rare sight in pakistan. now nestle dominates a vast market that it created itself i grew up in a city where you could go just like anyone else but also water and you would get a glass of water for free without any fear of its quality or it sounds and what's happened over the last ten to fifteen years i mean in my own consciousness is that i have seen and witnessed a replacement of drinking water a commodification of drinking water. i would say that it's nestle that's done it it's been a confluence of factors nestle appeared on the scene it started providing your life drinking water and all of a sudden coca-cola shows up he shows up and then a whole bunch of private manufactured watersports shows up as well all producing clean water clean water because of the terribly old and creaky infrastructure of

the sanitation authority and then before you know it everywhere you go if you ask for a glass of water i have to be fifty rupees. for most of this water is not drinkable we have to drink it as this is the only water available once we drink this water we get different stomach diseases. the water is too dirty you have to boil it filter it. out and then drink it. if you have a meal you have to rush to the toilet because the water can't be digested. there along the water warms inside they are moving inside we don't show this water to the children otherwise they won't drink it. and everything will be

a mess. this leap your life is the safe alternative delivered directly to. the service for the well to do. we film at the home distribution station in the upmarket area was gone but. i introduced myself to the station manager and asked for permission to film. what is a problem to. get what. you like what you put up with what you said it's ok you don't really really do. so. the university of management sciences in lahore and this elite institution hardly anyone drinks tap water and your life is a success story. i think a lot of the success of your life is nestle's marketing. that

was good it was targeted to words but income people because assuming that you can always get water fleet who would pay a premium for it probably the poor people will not. in any case they can't afford the prices so it is you know the class of upper middle class and leslie brodsky and the skid was because of their marketing and i see their distribution muscle you know that adds a very interesting lot of emphasis on quality and a model that you can trust. for a lot of you. it was fashionable to be walking around with build life in hand. you know it was making a statement about themselves so it was not just functional benefits it was position on that. that if you are you know. modern bars and if you are. you

know person who's health conscious. in some sense the jetset as a pikestaff. i think honestly and part of the water companies have been able to effectively appeal to a part of the pakistani psyche that. likes things like is appealing to a lifestyle i read somewhere recently that a lot of the cola manufacturers decided to go into making bottled water because they knew that the market for cool i was limited because it's so clearly unhealthy for you but the market fall drinking water is unlimited it's a constant supply so it's just a question of being able to effectively commodified drinking water and i mean i've seen it happen before my eyes in the last twenty years and it's not necessarily was not listening it was in the realm of your conspiracy theory i'm sure at some level this is part of a business plan put forward by a company that look here's

a market where there's nobody drinking bottled water if we go in and do this this this all of the sudden we have ten million consumers how's that. really. about forty kilometers from business news she can point to a factory. when the company introduced pin on life to pakistan some ten years ago it was not from here. right next to the factory the wellings of the deal one village. most of the village population cannot recall joe. you're right. nestle brought extreme point

but the factories also blamed for the biggest problem in the village. is a lack of clean drinking water. was. taken our water from as nestlé puts its own tube well in the factory now the water has become very dirty. all of the way of the water level used to be one hundred feet now the level is down to three hundred to four hundred feet. we worry a lot. of the wells used by the population no longer reach deep enough. around the factory several wells and from trying. to. do.

a lot of the relating to groundwater is unclear it's unclear who owns the groundwater who has a right to it whether the state has a right to regulate groundwater whether people who own land over the groundwater have a right to the resource or whether a company can come in be for the rights of groundwater these issues haven't been thrashed through legally economically or on any sort of policy for of yet and it remains to be done. because nestlings booming business with pure life the company has been pumping water out of the ground. but what effect is this having on the ground. and on the quality of the more to a drunk by the people of the village. i asked nicely put the stone about to start a countdown. clock no reply. what. do i mean that time medical people tell us the water is not safe. kids shouldn't drink it this girl is always sick one is monday if you keep on giving water to the

kids they keep on going to the toilet. if they can't digest the water. they tell us to boil the water first and to kill the germs johnny. yes you cannot what you are poor people can afford to boil all the time money. here in the deal what nestle has no good neighbor policy but the villages have sent a petition to the company they too would like to have access to the clean water lying deep down under their village. has turned their request. we've asked them for to boil. least they should provide us with a small pipe with an outlet of water through the wall be able to go to the. with

such a solution we the villagers could fetch water this way with cans in the body about the little nothing of what they could show us a little juster of respect destiny in the end is really stealing the local water sources from people and that's their life their livelihood and the livelihoods and lives of their children if that border is relatively small businesses open the ocean so we had a fake or that was. selling it cows for ciro point sera sera sera ninety percent of the fresh water being used i mean it's not even a trip and do it even a little. bit to what they should do the sixth international human rights forum opened this morning in the cern although the event is usually a peaceful affair but this year is different because of the participation of nestle's chairman peter broderick and

a stick to members of the swiss workers' union say that nestle itself violates human rights and has no place in such a forum. people have to buy expensive bottled water but poor people cannot afford it this is not a body human rights. have to face them anciently to simply say the border is a human right is perhaps not enough in reality it is not a matter of whether water is a human right because quite clearly it is it's more a question of how we can implement the human rights. we shouldn't reflects so much from whether water is a human right but rather reflect on how to ensure permanent access to water in daily life. that says there are also a few other basic problems which need solving. the most important point without question is the more must be invested in. water infrastructure. and secondly there

should be no subsidies for the owners of swimming pools and golf courses and for biofuels produced from plants cultivated specifically for this purpose. but there should be subsidies for water for the purposed and for nature. lagos is the biggest city in africa here there is no such thing as tree. everybody has to buy it. the poor rely on the sachet more locally produced but also with dubious fall into. the city where the public water supply has failed is an opportunity for those who want to sell. videos and multinationals and invest into what's up nestle this empty house was a. i just want to a many of us with

a muslim fund so you see. these. mountain nationals not understand the importance of what they know that in one jury. is still it's you know if i'm biased age inside the government has already taken hold of providing enough what awful the nationals on for the citizens industry is indeed profiting and exploiting the weakness of the. time. it's the best is awarded the wrong end of the stick is the other not a citizen who is helpless to live above the law is expensive and the daily maybe nigerians.

choose your language. of choice we can with oh if they still some of us. choose to use the consensus you can. choose the opinions that invigorating to. choose the stories that entire life truth be access to your office. ok. i democratically welcome you to ten dear all of virginia at a little while in the middle of the chesapeake bay on the virginia shaad. county. rampage here all in the chesapeake bay probably one of the best areas in the country saw fred. this is that your ten year island before the channel was cut for zero zero zero here. up there. as go all.

right here are some of the headstones from graves that for here this is a fruit that's what we don't want happen to tangier all and we want to get some protection and make sure that we don't go into the chesapeake bay like uppers did in other communities. dramas that can't be ignored to. stories others refuse to notice. the faces changing the walls lights now. so picture of today's leaves my phone to and from around the globe. up to. fifty. located in the

gunas mingles is the cocoa it's a slum neighborhood built on stilts. will give a human rights to water is nothing but a phrase that. the slum dwellers have to buy their drinking water from businessmen who have set up water stations in the slums. like. this no it's not easy to fetch water. that's it's a long way to the water stations. they're doing sometimes the pumps don't work because there's no petrol. then you have to go to another station that is even further away if you go to work and there are only four

stations around. for a family of twelve the daily budget is six dollars half of that we used to buy water. in the marketplace empty pet bottles are sold to a life of cocoa style. the slum continues to grow on its own rotting garbage. the reality in the global south is so powerful now it is such a life and death issue i mean more children die every day from dirty water than from h. i.v. aids more traffic accidents and malaria put together it's the number one killer and so when you have that kind of life and death situation and then a company like nest it comes in and says oh we've got the answer here life is yet ceremony going to sell the water that we're going to take from your very own aquifers when there are no public taps and when you turn the water out half the

time nothing comes out the other half when it does it's polluted and you wouldn't use it then they're there you know then i i have to go beyond saying that is irresponsible to say that this is almost a criminal act. mutant city as one of the best public water supplies in the list. but still. use all the rights in this town. from untouched nature direct to the downtown the public it's poland spring has become the top selling spring. with its population of eight million new york is the biggest beverage market on the american east coast.

every year in the usa alone the beverage industry uses up eight hundred cells and tonnes of plastic. to find bottles of the u.s. end up as garbage along roadsides. in the shopping centers of today. tomorrow. new yorkers drink bottled water when they have access to the cleanest best water in the world it comes from the catskills it is the cleanest safest water you could possibly drink it's just marketing it suddenly became cool and they connected it to health and they even told us we needed eight glasses a day which by the way is not true and they and they told us that we had to always have it on our little hydrating tool that we had to have it on us at all times so i talk to kids now and they'll say i'm trying to understand what you're saying but

how i can't from my house to my school without water i mean this is brilliant marketing and you know they've made tons of money telling us basically a lie. from you. i need to know the latest on the legal wrangling about the pumping stations welcome to a special edition of radioactive grass roots environmental and social justice new. topic is on large scale corporate action and community control nestle the world's largest food and beverage company. spring maine extracting from the state with intentions to expand. objecting to the sale of their water in positions of limited recourse with regulatory process.

in the town of friedberg the bulldozers are in action. the battle around the second pumping station went up to the highest court in the state of maine. last. soon the company will be loading up its tankers with even more local spring water legally. five and was granted only the right to limit the number of times of trips testings said there's a limit at thirty six thousand. this is sad sad tragic commentary on. what's legal. and what's that you know is it legal to steal is it ethically morally it. was legal and what's ethical and moral are two different things. you don't betray

people you know it's like the courts that is supposed to defend you be trained in your field even feel betrayed. their orchestrating the process so that they will eventually went with their wind because people are beat down and there they are tired of the fight or they don't even have the money to pay for the lawyers. natalie has unlimited funds you know we don't have the legal funds we don't have the the p.r. machines behind us but if you look at their message in freiburg they're good neighbor policy and you look at their message throughout the country they're all very self-serving they have a project called project wet for water education in the community school systems well all cheek they did a pilot program in freiburg isn't that interesting and then they can say look we

did a pilot program for project wet for water education look we're helping the community well you're helping the community conserve water while you're taking one hundred fifty million gallons out of the community. in the wildlife preserve the skull we had another ending here nestle has been

defeated. the company must remove its test wells from the protected area the towns of shapley and new fields have to plant over water in their territories to be a fundamental right. belongs to nature and may be used only by local residents. long scale pump. and commercialization of the is no longer permitted. both sadly and you feel have cited the right to local self-determination. a right which is anchored in the constitution of the usa. all of us have the same passion and once we found out that we couldn't you know work under the regulatory approach we had to find something in order to keep them out and that's how we found that we're the

right space and we want to around again to educate the people about the right space and we pretty much said if you want nestle into your community then go with a regulatory approach that will regulate them if they come in fill out the permit cross or t.'s dot their i's you can not say no to this large company and god forbid if you ever want to regulate anything stricter with them once they're ran because you will never win in court as freiburg now you have to as an instrument with choose why you would describe ordinance is something. new in stating here this is where shop lease board of selectmen holds its meetings in fact the board had opposed the local women's demand to carry that fight to constitutional level so we wanted to get the right space ordinance on the town warrant where everybody would vote it well the selectmen again said no we're not going to do it and you

know this is a majority of citizens there who elected these people so they said no we're not going to do it so they refuse the citizens petition they refused to allow the citizens to the order that they gave to their own select right so there's a little loophole in the law which laurie about where we could call our own town meeting all right folks went off the shelf we were right all the government did i did have one at this time although think they were about to go out weren't we so indicate by raising your reality with one. hundred and fourteen votes to sixty six the women won the day for water as a fundamental right and against nestle. to shapley neighboring new field coated likewise. the wildlife preserve will remain untouched. by anybody any reason why we're here today is to celebrate our victory our awesome victory and newfield and shout thank you really was

a whole grassroots af it and if it's i think it's just unbelievable because many of us were never activists and it's all thanks to you when i just want to say that i'm very humble having that experience and i think of all of you as as friends and again thank you very much thanks. for. her. it's a small victory achieved by two small towns in the hinterland of maine. but who can resist in countries where there is little democracy and even less water in pakistan

or in nigeria. clean drinking water is becoming increasingly precious some can afford the luxury of bottled water. but the us. does the planet.

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to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be accurate. that was funny but it's close and for the truth from i think. it's because one full attention and the mainstream media work side by side the joke is actually on here. and our teen years we have a different right. ok because the news of the world just is not this funny i'm not laughing dammit i'm not how. i feel if. you guys talk to the jokes well handled it makes sense that i'm.

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