An insightful overview of the Great Lakes Compact, the Nestlé water withdrawals in Michigan, and Waukesha, WI diversion. Thanks for producing this documentary!

No one complains about how much water Coke and Pepsi use to make pop.

@cpcattin

2 жыл бұрын

This is so much about nothing !

Thank you for excellent coverage on some of the water issues facing the great lakes basin! As concerned Michigan citizens, these issues are of paramount importance.

Dont let our Great Lakes be drained buy corporate interests.

My mother predicted this 60 years ago. (May she Rest In Peace.). I was 12 and didn’t believe her. Now I look at California, Nevada, Arizona and parts of Colorado. They want to divert water from the Mississippi River to Lake Powell which goes into the Colorado River and into Lake Mead. The Hoover Dam area. Water for people who moved to the dessert, water their lawns, and some have swimming pools. Humans and animals need water to survive and water for our food to grow. Diverting the Mississippi River will have a huge affect on the biodiversity of the Mississippi Delta Region. We should have listened to Al Gore years ago. The Koch brothers paid $100’s of millions to get people to change their minds and change their vote. They should be paying to clean up this mess we are in. We need to cut fossil fuel use. And start praying for rain and asking Native Americans to do Rain Dances. We’ll all be begging for any help we can get because we are just getting in deeper and deeper. We may be past the point of no return already. A great gift to leave our children. A burned out planet. All caused by greed.

@ritamariekelley4077

2 жыл бұрын

I just wish more ppl knew of the Kochs' dirty deeds. Thanks for saying it.

Born in Lansing, I always look forward to going back and drinking the tap water because it's so good. It's bad to convince people they need to drink bottled water--wasteful, less healthy, Nestle provides a couple of jobs--so what. Not worth seeing plastic bottles in the street.

Well if you want to stop Nestle.from selling water'.just stop buying it

@rdm5190

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly supply and demand works both ways demand goes away so does the supplier simple economics it's too bad more people don't think the same way a lot of companies that are harming our world and our people and social mindsets could go away that way

@aludwar5880

2 жыл бұрын

In Europe the people were against GMOs and just wouldn't buy them so now I don't think they don't sell GMO products there.

The grade of plastic used for water bottles is not recyclable. It will go to the landfill or be shipped to an Asian contractor for a simulated recycling program and dumped into the ocean.

California let nestle take water. Now it's running out.

If water belongs to everyone then the product that Nestle and every other beverage company actually sells is plastic bottles. An odd paradox of life-giving water and life-killing plastic.

Leave the Great Lakes water entirely alone. Go to Russia and its Siberia for your fresh water. They have more fresh water than our Great Lakes.

@martinphilip8998

3 жыл бұрын

We work pretty hard in East Central Illinois to perserve our glacial aquifer. Fortunately we’ve turned away mega hog farms and a coal washing plant.

Nestle needs to pay the same rate as every other one does

Dear Grant Trigger, if the final clinching fact to give Waukesha Great Lakes water was that the underground water below the thick nearly impemmeable layer of shale that runs under Waukesha and the Great Lakes was no longer flowing toward the Great Lakes, but away from the Great Lakes, know this ; that is a baseless fact. The report Waukesha presented was from an obsolete USGS aquifer modeling study completed in 2002 and based on a declining aquifer that projected significant aquifer pumping increases. That study was never rerun since the projections of the aquifer end in 2005. The aquifer had already began to recover and Waukesha's internal well records showed it was no longer declining. Waukesha has spent over $1 million on a single public relations firm, and weeks before the Application was submitted hired a Washington DC. lobbying firm which hired 2 full time staffers to lobby in each state. The Waukesha Water Utily lost nearly a half million because lobbying with ratepayer funds was not permitted by our Public Service Commision. They knowingly did it anyway. The water diversion precedent has been set. The Great Lakes Compact is dead as Wisconsin has shown through Waukesha, and now Foxconn, that the Great Lakes isn't protected and it will die a death by a thousand straws. Waukesha only needed to install Radium filters on wells 5,6,7,and 9 to satisfy all legal and safety concerns. Had they done that, there would never have been an Application. Congratulations Matt Stinsen, Mary Ellen Geist, and your professional camera crew. Follow -up in a few years to see how raising our sewer and water bills from $50-$70 per month to $200-$400 per month will have on the socioeconomic culture of Waukesha.

Don’t forget that Canada owns 50 per cent of the Great Lakes any time you can’t under stand that water travels south from Canada think what would happen if we dammed up the water

@x00p3

3 жыл бұрын

If that happened, there would likely be war.

Taking water from one of the Great Lakes affects all the lakes. What happens if we have many years of drought. Is Nestles going to give the water back.

Need to get Canada onboard

@jaswmclark

Жыл бұрын

As a Cabadian living in the Thousand Island section of the St. Lawrence River, I and others like me would oppose any diversion from the Upper Lakes to the southwestern United States deserts.

Sure...all businesses care about children and not profits.

Getting drinking water delivered. WOW

Force them to sell biodegradable bottles instead of allowing them to add to the single use plastic problem. Nobody is making these greedy rich companies take responsibility for the plastic they spew out ,especially for a bottle what? Water !!! Wake up

these are the kind of ideas that lead to ecological disasters. diverting this much water from entering the ocean will profoundly affect the estuaries where these rivers enter the pacific. California makes this huge pretense of caring about ecology but they create one environmental problem after another.

Don;t forget that this water is all used by people that will need to get water from somewhere.

If Milwaukee is getting clean water why not Flint?

So how is the water scam going now? August 2021

The conversion from PUBLIC to Private.

Dubai is making it rain with drones and electricity! Go see! Problem solved!

Nestle defends itself by saying that it has invested millions of dollars in infrastructure for its business, but that is just a normal business expense to facilitate and make more efficient their exploitation of the state's nearly-free water. But, this bottled water stuff is small potatoes. Worry instead about the western half of the US. They are all running out of water, they are politically powerful, and they are lusting after the water in the Great Lakes. If you are not careful, Lake Michigan will be pumped dry to irrigate fields in Kansas and California and to quench the thirst of people in Los Angeles. This is not a joke. When the reservoirs are empty in the West, they will come looking and they will force the federal government to intervene.

I choose not to purchase anything nestle

Hey ship that water to the Hoover Dam - lol

Water has been sold for years. You pay a water bill don't you??

pipe water from the Mississippi to California

@tomcat7843

3 жыл бұрын

Hell no. California has had 20 years to prepare.for this "crisis" and chose to export woke instead of leaders leading and preparing. NOW LET THEM CHOKE ON THEIR WOKE

@peppernbo

3 жыл бұрын

@@tomcat7843 well i agree with you that california kept putting off the water crises thinking that climate change wasnt real, but it is and california better get their head out of the ground and start doing something about it. either start building alot more desalination plants or pipe in water from other sources. Mississippi is wasting alot of water where they could make the desert bloom and make a ton of money off the west especially california. remember these are people--americans. love thy neighbor---do good unto them that persecute you. there is no perfect place to live. everyplace has their problems---do the best you can.

Larry bought Lanai

No!

boycott Nestle !

Don't you dare.

This is no problem. We need to get some water out of the Great Lakes ASAP. A huge diversion of some type. To lower the Great Lake levels by One Inch would take a zillion gallons to leave. The billions in damage happening with erosion, no beaches, no tourism, look this the big problem, not Nestle.

Always gotta throw in global warming

Have russia supply a pipeline if its done in america biden will sign an executive order and nix it so looks like y are screwed for atleast 3andhalf more years🤣

@Blue2crows

3 жыл бұрын

Nothing like the truth for those liberals.

Water not more valuable than gold, etc... Dumbest thing I ever heard. If you're dying of thirst then sure, but no one is dying of thirst. If people in areas of drought had gold they'd move.

@davidm7824

3 жыл бұрын

You are the dumbest thing I have ever heard. Many people out west have no water for DRINKING let alone bathing!!!! THINK ABOUT THAT!!!