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Brazil
Nestlé Waters inks major long-term investment deal
Santa Barbara Santa Bárbara Mineral Springs has been snapped up by Nestlé Waters Nestlé Waters has acquired São Paulo-based Santa Bárbara Mineral Springs, and reportedly plans to invest $42m (€32m) over the next five years on the business. This will include the value of the purchase, expansion and improvement of the production and packaging lines. The move confirms that Brazil is one of Nestlé’s priority markets, and the belief from the company that it can reap swift rewards from such an investment. With this new business acquisition, Nestlé Waters will gain significant production capability in São Paulo, Brazil’s most populous state.
Environmental impact of Nestlé's bottled water business
In Sao Lourenco in Brazil, Nestle's pumping in an historic mineral water park is blamed for ruining the healing springs on which tourism in the small town is based. Contrary to federal law, Nestle demineralised the water to manufacture its Pure Life brand. While Nestle claims there has been no negative impact, tests commissioned by the BBC and official government test results found the opposite.
Radio 4 da BBC, dia 22 de Julho de 2005 às 8,30 da manhà, horário de Brasília .
Escute ao vivo o programa 'Face the Facts' sobre a ação destrutiva da Nestlé em São Lourenço.!!!
Nesta nova série 1/6 , John Waite investiga a batalha global contra as empresas que exploram as preciosas fontes de águas. Waite viaja ao Brasil para conferir o impacto da destruição nas fontes de uma bonita cidade depois que a Nestlé decidiu produzir água engarrafada no local.!
Seja Bem-Vindo e Participe de Nossa Luta
Esta era a Fonte Oriente, a mais antiga do Parque das Águas de São Lourenço, erguida em 1892 e símbolo turístico da comunidade. A destruição do patrimônio secular que a aética empresa Nestlé Waters empreende no Parque faz coro com a destruição das águas das fontes. A Fonte Magnesiana, a mais consumida pelos usuários e a água mais antiga a ser distribuída no país, secou há mais de três anos. As águas da Fonte Vichy, só existente em São Lourenço e na França, está por um fio. As demais águas vêm sofrendo alterações em sua composição química e perdendo o sabor.
 Superior
Courts Decision guarantying the Right to Water
The
decision was announced by the Special Jurisdiction Appellate Court
from the State of Paraná – bill of review 0208625-3,
reformulating the sentence given in the First Jurisdiction, guarantying
the
reestablishment of the water supply to Mr. Albertino Marques,
resident in Londrina, Paraná, by the water supply
company in 16.08.2002. The
decision was taken based on the appellant petitioner’s
constitutional rights, human rights and the right of the consumers.
It also
took into consideration the situation of vulnerability
of one of the dwellers in the
house, which was sick. It was considered that the situation of
sickness must prevail over the discussion
around the legality of the discontinuity of the water supply.
The Brazilian jurisprudence
has adopted a position considering illegal to interrupt the water
supply even with the
consumer’s default,
based on the consumers Code that forbids that the user is exposed
to shameful situations.
2003,
27-January
In
Brazil, 9 million families are without access to drinkable water.
Globally the number of those without reliable water resources is
reported to be over 1 billion, with some speculating that it could
be as high as 2 billion.
Report
from Porto Alegre
Events at the third day of the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil were
in sharp contrast to the scene at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Thousands of demonstrators clashed with police in the Swiss mountain resort,
and on the way to it, since many were stopped at a railway checkpoint enroute.
Police used water cannon mounted on trucks, tear gas and even small tractors
to push back the crowds who had come to stand in the snow and voice their opposition
to the policies of the Bush administration and the neo-liberal economic policies
the WEF is felt to represent.
News
from Brazil
On May 7 , by invitation of Codema (Commission for the Environment, municipal
organization) was held a meeting in São lourenço’s City
Hall with the representatives of Perrier/Nestle group
SOS-
São Lourenço
São Lourenço-MG- A small town in the mountains of Brazil whose
primary profits come from the curative mineral waters . Today a huge profit
for Perrier that pumps around 600.000 liters of water a day.. our aquifer has
lowered a lot.. and there are some springs where there is no more water.....
Perrier
pumps Brazil!
The worldwide operations of Perrier have set foot in a small Brazillian town.
The mineral laden waters of a series of small springs are being "diverted" from
their natural course, bottled, shipped, then sold for corporate profits, a
long way from whence they flowed.
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