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[ [link removed] ]Boxes with Vittel water bottles stacked at a supermarket

John,

Nestlé is draining the groundwater from a small town in France known for
its majestic mineral springs, and pumping out 1.5 billion plastic bottles
of water a year. 

The local community in Vittel knows they soon won’t have enough water to
survive, so they’re fighting back…and they need our help. 

They’re suing to prove that Nestlé is illegally stealing the town’s water,
but the water giant has launched its own lawsuits against the community to
try and scare them into silence. The legal fees are piling up, and the
activists paying for it all out of their own pockets have run out of funds
to keep the lawsuit alive.

We’ve jumped in to help this brave, small community before — and now they
need our help again. Can you chip in to stop Nestlé stealing their water
and draining the town dry?



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Nestlé is draining Vittel’s water at a faster rate than it can possibly
regenerate. After six years of drought, the local community faces a
massive water crisis. And to make matters even worse, the water giant was
exposed for dumping chemical and plastic waste at NINE illegal dumping
sites — ditching enough waste to fill several dozens of Olympic swimming
pools!

Instead of cleaning up and rehabilitating the contaminated land, Nestlé
sued the farmer who first sounded the alarm about its illegal dumping —
trying to scare the entire community from daring to fight back. 

But the town isn’t backing down. Instead, brave activists are doubling
down on their case. They just hired a new lawyer with the experience
necessary to win, but fighting off a corporate power like Nestlé is
expensive, and they’ve run out of funds to keep going. 

Our massive mobilization in support of the people of Vittel already helped
stop an environmentally destructive water pipeline project. 

Now we can come together to help them at this crucial moment — can you
pitch in to help them win?



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Winning this fight against Nestlé is so much more than just saving one
town’s water, John. If we let it continue to privatize our
natural resources to turn a quick profit, soon there will be less water
for all of us. Whether you’re in the United States, Brazil, Australia,
South Africa, Afghanistan, France or another country, together we are
standing up against the multinational giant to make sure local communities
everywhere have water to drink. Will you join in the fight?



  Thanks for all that you do,  
Allison and the Ekō team



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More information:

[ [link removed] ]Troubled waters: Nestlé accused of plundering French community's vital
resource, Le Monde, 24 September 2022.

[ [link removed] ]French town of Vittel suffering water shortages as Nestle accused of
'overusing' resources, The Telegraph, 26 April 2018.

 

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