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John, Water bottle company BlueTriton may not be lighting the match that causes wildfires, but by pumping out water from drought-stricken forests, it’s helping to make them more prone to deadly wildfires. We must convince BlueTriton Chairman Dean Metropoulos to shut down the company’s most damaging pumping operations before the Western States are hit with another devastating wildfire season. If we create enough public outcry, we can prove to Metropoulos that the money made from his most controversial pumping sites is not worth the damage that we’ll do to the BlueTriton brand if he doesn’t shut them down. In Solidarity, Lacey and the team at SumOfUs P.S. See below for more information about the campaign and what you can do to make a difference.
John, As rivers, reservoirs, and aquifers dry up, billionaires like Dean Metropoulos are jumping at the chance to turn the US water crisis into a business opportunity. Metropoulos is a corporate flipper who bought Nestlé’s North American water bottling operation last year, renamed it BlueTriton Brands, and is currently cutting costs so that he can sell it for a massive payday. While Metropoulos’s greed is abhorrent, it is also an opportunity. We have been working together for years to stop Nestlé, and now BlueTriton, from pumping water out of the San Bernardino National Forest and four other threatened ecosystems. But we can win these campaigns right now by convincing Metropoulos that the money made from these five controversial pumping sites is not worth the damage that we’ll do to the BlueTriton brand if he doesn’t shut them down. While Californians and Coloradans have been suffering through extreme drought conditions and worsening wildfire seasons, BlueTriton is pumping out over 50 million gallons of water every year from California’s San Bernardino National Forest and Colorado’s Ruby Mountain Springs. In Florida, the water profiteer is pumping out nearly 365 million gallons a year from Ginnie Springs, endangering an already stressed ecosystem home to rare turtles. BlueTriton’s pumping operation in Maine’s Saco River Watershed dried out the wells and depleted the aquifer that supplied the town of Fryeburg with water. And communities in Osceola Township, Michigan fear for the future of their water supply as BlueTriton pumps out about 131 million gallons a year from White Pine Springs. But with one word, Dean Metropoulos can stop the harm BlueTriton is doing to each of these struggling communities and ecosystems. Along with our partners from the impacted communities, we are working on getting BlueTriton’s permits revoked and stopping attempts to greenwash the BlueTriton brand. But with your help we can use the court of public opinion to convince Dean Metropoulos that it is in his best interest to shut down these damaging pumping operations. Together we kicked Nestlé out of North America. We can take down BlueTriton, too.  Thanks for all that you do, More information: The fight to stop Nestlé from taking America's water to sell in plastic bottles, The Guardian, October 29, 2019.
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