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The Council of Canadians has a petition relating to massive amounts of groundwater water to be extracted on Ontario by a bottle water company. A pledge, actually. "Blue Triton Waters — the corporation that bought out #Nestlé’s North American bottled water business in 2021 — will take a total of more than 8 billion litres of groundwater from two wells in #Ontario over five years. Permits issued by the Government of Ontario grant Triton enough groundwater to fill 14 billion more #plastic bottles. Laid end to end, those bottles would circle the globe 70 times. This deeply unjust deal is just one among many across Canada that undermine our human right to water, and our global responsibility to reduce single-use plastics. Sign the pledge today to boycott commercial bottled water." #Canada #water https://canadians.org/nowatertowaste/#action
  • streetfestival@lemmy.caEnglish
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    9 months ago

    From https://canadians.org/media/premier-ford-gives-american-bottled-water-giant-permit-draw-billions-litres-ontario/:

    Over five years, the permits will allow the American-owned company to take over 8 billion litres of groundwater in total from their main well in Puslinch (Aberfoyle) and a second well in Erin (Hillsburgh). Most of the company’s revenue comes from selling water in single-use, 500-ml plastic bottles.

    “These renewed permits grant Triton enough groundwater to fill 14 billion more plastic bottles. Laid end to end, those bottles would stretch 5.6 million kilometers – enough to circle the globe 70 times,” Mark Calzavara added.

    “Bottled water is frivolous and wasteful, and groundwater resources are finite. With droughts and forest fires ravaging the planet due to climate change, we cannot allow these precious groundwater reserves to be bottled and sold for profit.”