tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6133138609934266515.post5984696745034430127..comments2023-05-30T06:56:46.273-04:00Comments on The Alliance For Democracy - News, eNewsletters, Alerts and Chapter News: Water in Washington state: citizens organizing to have a say in AnacortesAlliance for Democracyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08465594911384868378noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6133138609934266515.post-61934712917991695542011-08-09T10:03:52.217-04:002011-08-09T10:03:52.217-04:00I find all of this totally outrageous! Water of al...I find all of this totally outrageous! Water of all things being bottled, and sold.Snohomish Farmers Markethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08293154070159261753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6133138609934266515.post-64895126651756079502011-07-07T17:24:40.069-04:002011-07-07T17:24:40.069-04:00Did anyone notice that the proposed consumption ra...Did anyone notice that the proposed consumption rate the city council agreed to is 5,000,000 gallons of water PER DAY? That's 1,825,000,000 gallons per year.Roberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15524982631519092430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6133138609934266515.post-29086260749265024492011-07-07T17:18:00.702-04:002011-07-07T17:18:00.702-04:00Another question to ask the bottler is their bottl...Another question to ask the bottler is their bottles are BPA free. If not, the the city must refuse to participate in an act we know will ultimately lead to damaged children. BPA is being banned on an internantional scale as a significant hazard to human health. A recent study shows that over 90% of newborn umbilical cords show BPA. Knowing this, if the city participates in spreading a known hazardous chemical it can be held liable for damages in a class action suit. This should be advertised in your local newspapers and by handouts and mailings. Governments that knowingly cooperate in damaging enterprises are as guilty as the actual actor. It's past time for America to demand accountability on such matters.Roberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15524982631519092430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6133138609934266515.post-75626764650216537532011-03-22T11:15:38.133-04:002011-03-22T11:15:38.133-04:00Today, on World Water Day, in Everett, Washington ...Today, on World Water Day, in Everett, Washington (where we defeated an attempt by Tethys Enterprises in 2010 to build a one-million-square-foot bottling plant for "water-intensive purposes), the community activists who achieved this great result will meet with more members of the area for a showing of the film, "Tapped." We are organizing to oppose a new attack in Everett from the water bottling industry -- from Bellevue-based "Evergreen Bottling Company." Their name, "Evergreen," is a typically Orwellian attempt to fool the uninformed into believing that their products are good for the environment. Bottled waters and other beverages are certainly NOT good for the earth nor for people unless in areas of the world where tap water is unavailable or unsafe to drink (as in Haiti and Japan following earthquakes there). <br /><br />"Tapped" stars our own Ruth Caplan who has worked with our AfD co-chair, Nancy Price, for many years on defending water as a "commons," to be protected legally and otherwise for people and nature. <br /><br />Sandra Spargo is doing a fine job of helping us educate people in the Skagit River Basin about the many interrelated pieces of the water crisis -- droughts in the summer and floods in winter and spring, the drastic decreases in our aquifers and private water wells.<br /><br />Thanks to the many dedicated people at the Alliance for Democracy, the UN Association of Greater Seattle, and in the Sierra Club for their tireless efforts on "water as a human right" and as a right for the natural world, as well.Rebecca Wolfehttp://www.TheAllianceForDemocracy.orgnoreply@blogger.com