Sacramento News & Review > Blogs > SNOG > Hey KJ, see Tapped at the Crest before selling all our water to Nestle > October 18, 2009:
"More recommended viewing for the mayor and city council, as well as the city’s Economic Development department. On Wednesday, the Crest Theater is showing the documentary Tapped, which documents the big business of bottled water.
The screening is being put on by Save Our Water–the organization formed to oppose a new Nestle Waters bottled water plant in South Sacramento, and it will be preceded by a presentation on the Nestle situation here in Sacramento.
Regular SN&R know that Nestle is planning to open a bottled water plant here in Sacramento after the company was basically run out of the town of McCloud, near Mt Shasta. The Nestle deal would allow the multinational company to purchase Sacramento tap water and sell it at profits exceeding 1,000 times what they pay for it. This at a time when Sacramento residents are being asked to follow strict new conservation rules or risk fines.
The plant is supported by Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, but at least a couple of Sacramento city council members are skeptical. Council member Kevin McCarty is introducing an “urgency ordinance” that would require bottling companies to get special permits before beginning operation, and he wants the council to consider charging bottling plants higher rates that other users, as is the practice in some other cities, like Los Angeles."
"More recommended viewing for the mayor and city council, as well as the city’s Economic Development department. On Wednesday, the Crest Theater is showing the documentary Tapped, which documents the big business of bottled water.
The screening is being put on by Save Our Water–the organization formed to oppose a new Nestle Waters bottled water plant in South Sacramento, and it will be preceded by a presentation on the Nestle situation here in Sacramento.
Regular SN&R know that Nestle is planning to open a bottled water plant here in Sacramento after the company was basically run out of the town of McCloud, near Mt Shasta. The Nestle deal would allow the multinational company to purchase Sacramento tap water and sell it at profits exceeding 1,000 times what they pay for it. This at a time when Sacramento residents are being asked to follow strict new conservation rules or risk fines.
The plant is supported by Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, but at least a couple of Sacramento city council members are skeptical. Council member Kevin McCarty is introducing an “urgency ordinance” that would require bottling companies to get special permits before beginning operation, and he wants the council to consider charging bottling plants higher rates that other users, as is the practice in some other cities, like Los Angeles."
