{"id":3719,"date":"2016-03-26T03:05:56","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T03:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/?p=3719"},"modified":"2016-03-26T03:05:56","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T03:05:56","slug":"companies-want-to-seize-publicly-owned-water-then-sell-it-back-to-us-at-a-profit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/companies-want-to-seize-publicly-owned-water-then-sell-it-back-to-us-at-a-profit\/","title":{"rendered":"Companies want to seize publicly owned water, then sell it back to us at a profit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_3722\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3722\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-25-at-21.58.28-600x306.jpg\" alt=\"Fresh water\" width=\"600\" height=\"306\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3722\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-25-at-21.58.28-600x306.jpg 600w, https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-25-at-21.58.28-768x392.jpg 768w, https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-25-at-21.58.28-1024x522.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-25-at-21.58.28.jpg 1432w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3722\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sourece: Our Water, Our Future short film, a<br \/>storyofstuffproject<\/figcaption><\/figure>As Pamela Larsen succinctly points out in the short film <em>Our Water, Our Future<\/em> by The Story of Stuff, &#8220;There are water grabs happening everywhere.&#8221; Nestl\u00e9 is bleeding water out of the land in California and Oregon, bottling it and selling it back to the people they stole it from.<\/p>\n<p>And in New Jersey, private companies are getting ready to buy municipal water systems out from under the people \u2013\u00a0and then make customers pay them back the money they spent to buy the systems.<\/p>\n<p>Taking care of ourselves, our society and our natural resources is our obligation as earth citizens. We need to get much better at doing this than we are.  <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/udyx9u5LJeo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Pamela Larsen succinctly points out in the short film Our Water, Our Future by The Story of Stuff, &#8220;There are water grabs happening everywhere.&#8221; Nestl\u00e9 is bleeding water out of the land in California and Oregon, bottling it and selling it back to the people they stole it from. And in New Jersey, private &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/companies-want-to-seize-publicly-owned-water-then-sell-it-back-to-us-at-a-profit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Companies want to seize publicly owned water, then sell it back to us at a profit<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,101,854,183,8],"tags":[884,451,865,14],"class_list":["post-3719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-environment-2","category-environmental-justice","category-nature","category-water","tag-bottle","tag-nestle","tag-privatize","tag-water-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3719"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3726,"href":"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719\/revisions\/3726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}