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Where do Canadians draw the line? Save Our Water is drawing the line at groundwater being extracted cheaply and sold expensively. We are drawing the line at a finite natural resource being pulled from under our feet by the world’s largest food company. We are drawing the line for our kids and their kids. Because what BlueTriton does might be legal, but it’s not right.
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WATER IS A PUBLIC TRUST. it IS nOT FOR SALE.
The recently enacted municipal veto on new permits for water bottlers in Ontario is great news!
But there is a threshold to that veto. In Centre Wellington a bottler could still apply to remove 379,000 litres of groundwater every day from the Middlebrook well.
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We agree with our municipal Council that Centre Wellington is not a willing host community to ANY new permits for water taken for bottling. Save Our Water still says NO.
Current News
November 11, 2024
BIG NEWS!!!!! The Aberfoyle water bottling plant is closing its operation
It was 9 1/2 years ago that Nestlé Waters Canada purchased the Middlebrook property just west of Elora. If granted a permit, they planned on pumping 1.6 million litres of water every day and trucking that water to Aberfoyle for bottling.
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It became clear to residents that letting an international water bottler take this precious water to a bottling plant to be put it into plastic bottles made no sense at all. So in 2015 the local community mobilized. We attended public meetings, we tied blue ribbons, we put posters and signs all over town, we spoke to local and international media, marched in parades, and engaged with municipal and provincial politicians and staff in a unified front. We named our citizen group SaveOurWater.ca.