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NESTLE: PRIVATE WATER PIRATE
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(Visit website for the film “Bottled Life” http://www.bottledlifefilm.com/index.php/home-en.html )
A typical American uses 80 to 100 gallons of water a day, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The entire country consumes about 323 billion gallons per day of surface water and another 84.5 billion gallons of ground water. Do you have any questions about why Criminal Corporations like Nestle want to PRIVATIZE water distribution?
Perhaps the most incredible number: at an average cost of $1.22 per gallon, consumers are spending 300 times the cost of tap water to drink bottled water.
In fact, that number could be even higher, writes Colas in a note to clients.
“The [bottled water] industry grossed a total of $11.8 billion on those 9.7 billion gallons in 2012, making bottled water about $1.22/gallon nationwide and 300x the cost of a gallon of tap water,” Colas says. “If we take into account the fact that almost 2/3 of all bottled water sales are single 16.9oz (500 mL) bottles, though, this cost is much, much higher: about $7.50 per gallon, according to the American Water Works Association. That’s almost 2,000x the cost of a gallon of tap water and twice the cost of a gallon of regular gasoline.”
Do the math: 323 billion gallons surface water PLUS 84.5 billions gallons of ground water EQUALS 407.5 billion gallons TIMES $1.22 per gallon EQUALS $497.15 billion per day. Now, multiply this number by 300 for the price of Nestle bottled water!
ANY QUESTIONS?
Get yourself educated about the subject of “Water Privatization” before NESTLE STEALS OUR WATER. Here are a few excellent articles:
http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/water/private-vs-public/facts-and-figures/
MINORITY OF ONE
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“Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct, for being you.
Never apologize for being correct, or for being years ahead of your time.
If you’re right and you know it, speak you mind.
Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth.”
~ Mahatma Gandhi ~
TIME TRAVELING AROUND THE ROMAN EMPIRE
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For ancient history geeks, like me, this video demostrates how to use the “Orbis” mapping system, from Stanford University, is the coolest history study tool invented for want-to-be time travelers. Here’s the link to the website: http://orbis.stanford.edu/
“Spanning one-ninth of the earth’s circumference across three continents, the Roman Empire ruled a quarter of humanity through complex networks of political power, military domination and economic exchange. These extensive connections were sustained by premodern transportation and communication technologies that relied on energy generated by human and animal bodies, winds, and currents.
Conventional maps that represent this world as it appears from space signally fail to capture the severe environmental constraints that governed the flows of people, goods and information. Cost, rather than distance, is the principal determinant of connectivity.
For the first time, ORBIS allows us to express Roman communication costs in terms of both time and expense. By simulating movement along the principal routes of the Roman road network, the main navigable rivers, and hundreds of sea routes in the Mediterranean, Black Sea and coastal Atlantic, this interactive model reconstructs the duration and financial cost of travel in antiquity.
Taking account of seasonal variation and accommodating a wide range of modes and means of transport, ORBIS reveals the true shape of the Roman world and provides a unique resource for our understanding of premodern history.
THE SOUL TAKES NOTHING
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