When Nestlé Waters North America, the world's largest bottler of water, comes a-courting, promising jobs and increased tax revenues in exchange for local water rights, many small, rural towns get nervous. Deborah Lapidus, an organizer with the Think Outside the Bottle campaign, says this skepticism [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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Bottled water is probably one of the biggest scams in the world. Hopefully more people will start waking up. Water should be accesible for free and clean too. Just like nature intended.
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