Public Policy & Legislation
The predominant issue is the privatization of water—both here in the U.S. and in other parts of the world.
The bottle water industry is dominated by four large transnational corporations: Coca-Cola, Pepsico, Nestlé and Danone. These "Big 4" giants in the industry have economies that are larger than some countries. When one of the Big 4 establishes a plant in a community they take not only water from the regions aquifers or municipal water utilities, but often they receive massive subsidies and tax exemptions.
—from Inside the Bottle
Clean Water Act
The Environmental Protection Agency provides this tutorial to the Clean Water Act and its effects.
The Right to Water
This site has information on International Law as it pertains to the right to water.
For more information contact environment @ uua.org.
Last updated on Friday, June 20, 2008.
