On a sunny Tuesday morning in December, SumOfUs joined
nearly 100 people at a meeting of Florida water officials to deliver
over 380,000 petition signatures demanding that they stop
Nestlé from draining Ginnie Springs.
And your signature was one of them.
After handing over the massive box of signatures,
townspeople and local activists spent two hours making
passionate public statements against Nestlé’s water grab.
Many of them had driven three hours just to be there. Some were even
missing school for the day.
After the meeting, SumOfUs and
our partner Our Santa Fe River kayaked down the Santa Fe River to
bring a powerful protest directly to Ginnie
Springs.
Watch on YouTube
Your petition signature helped us make a big
splash. Water officials were paying close attention, and
even thanked us for our passion.
But the fight isn’t over yet.
Nestlé is already bottling a small amount of Ginnie Springs’
water using an expired permit. And in the next few months,
officials will decide whether to approve a new permit that would
allow Nestlé to suck nearly half a billion gallons of water out of
the springs every year.
We need your help to pull out all the stops to protect this water
from Nestlé’s greed.
Publix, Florida’s largest grocery store chain, sells Nestlé’s
bottled water from Ginnie Springs. If you can convince
Publix to take Ginnie Springs water off its shelves, it would be a
huge blow to Nestlé. And it would send a powerful message
to Florida officials that it doesn’t make economic sense to approve
the permit.
Tell
Publix: Stop profiting from the destruction of Florida’s water
supply.
