Across the country, big agribusiness (Big Ag) and fossil fuel corporations (Big Oil) use and pollute vast quantities of water, while millions of people lack reliable access to clean water. The same corporations driving the climate crisis are also driving a water crisis that will only get worse as climate change accelerates.
But we can do something about it!
Food & Water Watch is working to ensure everyone has access to safe, accessible, and affordable water. That’s why we are expanding our water campaign in 2023 and organizing in California, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania to stop water privatization, and corporate water abuses and handouts.
Our new report on California’s long-term water crisis shows that three industries — oil and gas, almonds and alfalfa, and dairy factory farms — are consuming hundreds of billions of gallons of water each year, enough to meet the daily use needs of all Californians. Meanwhile, over a million people in the state lack reliable access to clean water.
As long as Big Oil and Big Ag corporations continue abusing our shared water resources, the water crisis in California can happen anywhere. We can’t sit back and allow corporations to endanger our health or our planet for profit, and we won’t accept excuses or delays from local, state, and federal leaders.
We’ll be organizing in Salem City, New Jersey, to defeat a proposed sale of their public water utility. And in Pennsylvania to defeat proposed water privatization legislation. And in California to enact moratoriums on new factory farms, tree nut production, and oil and gas development.
Food & Water Watch and its affiliated organization, Food & Water Action, are advocacy groups with a common mission to protect our food, water and climate.
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