- Target:
- The provincial legislature of Prince Edward Island
- Region:
- Canada
- Website:
- www.facebook.com
Whereas bottled water has an enormous and unnecessary toll on our environment;
Whereas we recognize water as a human right and strongly oppose the bottled water industry’s commodification of this public resource;
Whereas bottled water companies work to undermine public trust in the safety of tap water;
Whereas the production, transportation and disposal of bottled water requires massive amounts of fossil fuels creating unnecessary levels of greenhouse gas emissions;
Canada is a net exporter of bottled water, selling its ancient glacier waters all over the world mostly for the profit of the large foreign-owned, multi-national water companies.
In Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water, Council of Canadians Chairperson Maude Barlow writes, “Most provinces charge these companies next to nothing to extract this water from springs and aquifers, and whole watersheds are now under threat from this practice.” But people are fighting back.
Questions are being asked in communities across Canada about the extensive and damaging water-taking practices of for-profit bottling companies and citizens are calling on governments to take action against bottled water. Now is a great time for PEI to join the fight.
We, the undersigned call on the government of Prince Edward Island to ban the sale and distribution of bottled water.
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The Making Prince Edward Island a Bottled Water Free Zone petition to The provincial legislature of Prince Edward Island was written by Make PEI bottled-water-free and is in the category Environment at GoPetition.