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Breaking News: Felton, California Wrests Control of its Water System from Corporate Giant RWE On May 30, 2008, the citizens of Felton learned of their victory. Jim Mosher with Felton FLOW (Friends of Locally Owned Water) commented: "This is a great victory for the citizens of Felton and should inspire other communities to challenge private water utilities that are extorting huge, unjustified rate increases and failing to protect sensitive watershed properties." Full story here. More News: Sierra Club Opposes Corporate Water Mandate Sierra Club signs international letter to the Secretary General of the United Nations opposing formation of "CEO Water Mandate" as prime example of green washing by corporations which stand to benefit from water privatization. Click here to read letter. Feature: Sierra Club Tells Nestlé: Let the People Decide! Sierra Club tells Nestlé to respect the right of local communities to exercise democratic control over the use of their water. Citizen groups in California and Michigan join with Sierra Club. Club delivers letter and holds demonstration at Nestlé headquarters in Greenwich CT when shareholders meet in Switzerland. Read more. Sierra Club Press Release Sierra Club letter to Nestlé Corporate Watchdog Radio cohost Sanford Lewis interviews Ruth Caplan, chair of Sierra Club's project on water privatization Take Action: Take the Pledge! Sierra Club is joining with other organizations across the country in urging our members and friends to take the pledge to choose tap water over bottled water. We urge you to take the pledge and send the link to your friends, your local Sierra Cllub group, other networks, and local organizations. Whether you are concerned about the litter from plastic bottles, the toxicity from the unnecessary production and use of plastic, the cost to your town or city from having to dispose of the bottles, the undercutting of financing for high quality public water systems by the growing dependence on bottled water, or most fundamentally, turning water into a commodity to be sold for profit -- or all of the above -- please take the Think Outside the Bottle Pledge! When you do, you will also be taking action against a totally unnecessary contribution to global warming! Feature: Threats to Our Water: NAFTA, SPP, Atlantica, Super-Corridors describes the Security and Prosperity Partnership for North America (SPP agreed to by the US, Canada and Mexico without Congressional approval), NAFTA Super-Corridors, and cross border regions like Atlantica and how they threaten to put our water up for sale. The 55 slide presentation is based on extensive research by Dr. Janet M Eaton, SCC Canadian liaison to the Water Privatization Task Force. Download here. Feature: THIRST ACT LOCALLY TO PUSH BACK THE BUSH PRIVATIZATION AGENDA! Looking for a gripping program for your group or chapter? We recommend THIRST, an outstanding documentary which features Sierra Club member Dale Stocking speaking out and walking the talk in Stockton CA. THIRST also tells the story of community resistance in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and Rajasthan, India and in Kyoto, Japan where activists gathered from around the globe to protest corporate water privatization. For Sierra Club screening requests, please contact screenings.info@sierraclub.org. For other groups or teachers, you can purchase or rent the film here: http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/thirst.html. Find out more... Feature: Bottled Water Campaign Did you know that: 9 out of 10 plastic water bottles end up     as garbage or litter? Bottled water is regulated by the Food     and Drug Administration which relies on     industry testing since they only have one     inspector for the whole country? Bottled water costs on average almost a     thousand times as much as the water     from your tap? Find out more & take action! Feature: Water for People and Nature: The Story of Corporate Water Privatization This power point presentation has been developed by the Sierra Club's Corporate Accountability Committee as an educational tool for interested citizens and activists wishing to learn more about water privatization issues and for use by communities mobilizing to prevent corporate privatization of their water services and resources. Find out more & take action! Up to Top HOME | Email Signup | About Us | Contact Us | Terms of Use | © 2008 Sierra Club