Nestle, which earns over $7 billion in annual bottled water sales, pays a once-a-year $200 administrative fee to extract over 130 million gallons of water from Evart, while people are poisoned and die in nearby Flint, where a single months’ water utility bill is over $200. [Source: Jessica Glenza. “Nestle pays $200 a year to bottle water near Flint – where water is undrinkable.” The Guardian. 29 September 2017.]
In 2020, Michigan institutions and judges continue to allow Nestle to pay minor administrative fee of $200 per each water extraction facility, as Nestle extracts over half a million gallons every single day from single individual wells (ie: just one annual fee of $200 for the Evart well). [Source: Garret Ellison. “Nestle wins legal challenge to Michigan groundwater extraction.” MLive. 28 April 2020.]
Nestle pumped over 2.5 billion gallons from a Mescota County well in the early 2000s; Nestle has now pumped over 1 billion gallons from the Evart wells; in 2014, Nestle discovered the Evart wells were poisoned with perchlorate from the debris of many years of Fourth of July fireworks; the Osceola well now supplies millions of gallons a year. [Source: Garret Ellison. “Nestle in Michigan: Unpacking the water battle backstory.” MLive. 26 December 2016. Updated 20 May 2019.]
Since the city declared bankruptcy in 2014, tens of thousands in Detroit have had no household water access; even people with water access have high rates of lead poisoning; in one Detroit zip code in 2017, 22% of tested children exhibited lead poisoning. [Source: Karen Bouffard and Christine MacDonal. “Detroit kids’ lead poisoning rates higher than Flint.” The Detroit News. 14 November 2017.]
To gain uninhibited access to water extraction sites, Nestle merges with local government institutions and deliberately targets rural, isolated, or “economically-depressed” communities; at the Wellington County well, Nestle Waters Canada extracts millions of liters of water without permission from Treaty Six Indigenous residents of the territory. [Source: Franklin Frederick. “Nestle: Multinationals as the New Colonial Powers. A tale of Many Cities.” Defend Democracy Press. 22 December 2019.]
Beginning in 2016, bottled water sales surpassed soda and became the largest US beverage industry; Nestle Waters global sales are more than $7.8 billion a year; Nestle chief executive said water is not a human right, and is instead a “grocery product.” [Source: Tom Perkins. “The fight to stop Nestle from taking America’s water to sell in plastic bottles.” The Guardian. 29 October 2019.]
Detroit water contaminated with giardia, shigellosis, lead; Detroit administrators refused (from 2014 until the 2020 pandemic) to even declare the water shutoffs a “public health issue”; Michigan officials tell poor people to take “a bucket” to “fetch” water from the Detroit River; Michigan officials blame poor people for spending money on “luxury cell phones” instead of their water utility bills. [Source: Nina Misuraca Ignaczak. “Detroit Water Shutoffs and a Crisis of Public Health.” Belt Magazine. 9 March 2020.]
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