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Bottled Water Giant #Nestlé Censors Critical Documentary | Common Dreams
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Pressure from bottled-water giant Nestlé Waters #Canada bullied a Canadian city into cancelling a screening of “Tapped,” an award-winning documentary critical of the buying and selling of clean drinking water as a commodity.
Bottles are seen on a production line on July 19, 2010 in Vittel, at the mineral water bottling plant of Nestlé Waters Supply Company. (Photo: Jean-Christophe Verhaegen, AFP/Getty Images.) Water activist Maude Barlow, chairperson of the Council of Canadians, planned to attend Monday’s screening of “Tapped” in Guelph, Ontario, but discovered that the event had been cancelled after Nestlé’s director of corporate affairs expressed “disappointment” that the city was a co-sponsor of the screening. Nestlé questioned efforts by the city “to position itself as a business-friendly place to invest.”
Barlow called Nestle’s letter “bullying,” and said in a radio interview Monday, “It really does matter who is going to make decisions around access to water in the future. Is it going to be a handful of corporations? Is it going to be service utilities? Is it going to be bottled water companies? Is it going to be water traders? Or is it going to be democratically-elected governments looking after water on behalf of their people?”
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On Monday, Tapped was screened at the University of Guelph before more than 350 people, according to Calzavara — far more than were originally expected before the controversy.