Clean water is a human right…

Clean water is a human right. Privatizing what has always been public is an affront to Mother Earth and all her creatures that rely on clean water for their survival. Selling off our public water for a pittance to allow others to profit from bottling it maintains a dangerous trend that should now be reversed. It has also contributed to an explosion in plastic pollution, which is not just polluting our oceans and waterways, and adding to landfill, these plastics are also finding their way into our water and food in the form of micro-plastics. While many First Nations communities and other Ontario municipalities do not have access to safe drinking water for at least a year, Triton is pumping clean water from Indigenous lands and municipal wells and bottling it for profit. Triton is ignoring Indigenous sovereignty. The Government of Ontario must end this water grab once and for all. Triton Water is betting that the increasing scarcity of clean water will make its investors rich. It’s clear that the corporation values profits over people. And that is why this “new Nestlé” must be stopped. Thank you.