Wells voters say NO to Nestle.
Voting down an ordinance which would open the door to large scale water extraction.
The vote was 3,194 against and 1,420 for, a 69.2% victory for water warriors.
In the News & On the Net
Please take a few minutes to watch this compelling photo essay about water and ask yourself, “Who should control this most precious and increasingly scarce resource – local citizens exercising local democratic control or a handful of large corporations whose main purpose is profit?”
After watching the essay, please look around our website to learn about this issue. For more about SOH2O, see the “About Us” tab. For information on how you can help, please see the “Take Action” tab.
Maude Barlow on the Global Water Crisis and Climate Change
“As water becomes more precious large corporations have decided that it is the most valuable commodity. In fact water is controlled by a world wide corporate water cartel.”
