After seeing the half page ad for Nestle Waters and reading the article on the Water Walk from Guelph to Nestle’s bottling plant,I have a better understanding of double-speak in the novel, 1984. The word sustainability came up often from a company that ships water out of the watershed in large trucks that leave their plant every few minutes.
Cedric Focking Schneider, corporate affairs manager, mentioned their passion for water. I suggest it is a passion for profit.
Ontario’s Clean Water Act defines a drinking water threat as “Any activity that takes water from an aquifer or a surface water body without returning the water taken to the same aquifer or surface water body”. This is what they do by the millions of litres per day. This is NOT sustainable.
They are a drinking water threat. They take millions of litres of water out of the ground water daily. With passion apparently!
Donna McCaw