US Uncut - A first-in-the-nation ballot initiative to stop Nestle from buying public water may soon be up for a vote in Oregon’s Hood River County.
The ballot initiative aims to block a convoluted water deal handing over water rights to both the state of Oregon and Hood River County to Nestle, resulting in the company selling the county’s water. The ballot initiative could stop the deal in its tracks and sound a warning to Nestle and other water-bottling companies like Coca-Cola and Pepsi that local populations are rallying to protect their water rights.
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Water rights in the Columbia river gorge are complex with many varied interests at the table. This sale to Nestle would break treaty rights with local first nations. That alone should have stopped Nestle. Unfortunately like too many treaty rights, this one is being steamrollered by Nestle's deep pockets, and a legacy of malfeasance from the disgraced Kitzhaber administration. Governor Brown seems unwilling to take constructive action to stop Nestle. I live down stream from Cascade Locks, so I wish I could vote on this one too, but I understand their choice to make it a county wide measure only.
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