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Unbottle Water

Water is a human right. We, humans, animals and our environment, all need it to survive, yet corporations increasingly seek to privatize and profit from it. We’re working to ensure that water is public, safe, and accessible to all.

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Nestlé has made billions of dollars bottling and selling public water, hurting ecosystems and communities in the process. We’re demanding that Nestlé return five of its most controversial water sources to their rightful owners: the people.

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Nestlé’s Troubled Waters

Nestlé exploits our natural resources by taking free water from national forest land and selling it in polluting plastic bottles. We’re working to stop it.

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Unbottle San Bernardino

The Great Lakes are among the largest reserves of freshwater on the planet. We’re working with local grassroots groups to ensure that it remains in public hands.

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Unbottle the Great Lakes

When Nestlé came to town with a proposal to bottle their water, citizens in Cascade Locks launched an all-out effort to protect their most precious resource.

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Victory: Unbottle Cascade Locks

Fights around public water are popping up throughout the United States and around the world.

Everyday people are working to preserve clean water access in their communities and to secure public water sources, systems, and infrastructure against privatization.

The Story of Stuff Project is a firm believer in safeguarding the water commons for public good. With our Unbottle Water campaign, we’re fighting to protect public water resources from the aggressive privatization efforts of companies like Nestlé Waters as they push to secure new sources of water for bottling. We promote efforts to expand water affordability programs, rebuild aging water infrastructure, and counter industry attacks on clean water regulations.

The commodification of water is a prime example of the way that a culture centered around the accumulation of stuff can threaten basic human rights like access to clean, affordable water.

From the manufactured demand for bottled water (and the plastic pollution it creates), to the exploitation of public land and water resources, to the injustice of communities fighting for safe water while Nestlé bottles it hours away, water represents the head-on collision between the materials economy and a future that is healthy and just for all.

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Join our work to defend access to clean, safe, affordable drinking water from corporate control!

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