Water privatization hurts people and the environment. I was looking through the Sierra Club website and came across a section labeled Corporate Water Privatization (http://www.sierraclub.org/committees/cac/water/). Here they provided many interesting statistics and articles regarding people and places that are being affected and the people who are fighting against the privatization of water by large corporations. One link led me to an article titled, Development-U.S.: Nestle Bottling Operations Court Controversy (http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=37407). This article talked about how many communities, with the help of the Sierra Club, are standing up against the privatization of their water supply. In the article the Sierra Club calls for Nestle to “respect the right of local communities to exercise democratic control over the use of their water.”
After reading this article I felt happy knowing that people are standing up against the big corporations and in some places winning. It relates to the book Cochabamba: Water War in Bolivia and how people united can stand up for what they believe in and their human right to have access to safe drinking water. I hope that this movement against water privatization continues until water as a commodity is no more. I think that the end of water bottling companies will provide much more benefits to the entire world. There would be less manufacturing waste, less pollution, and more communities would have access to their water instead of watching a company ship their water overseas and be left with contaminated land and water.
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