The Devastating Effect on Our Environment

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The Devastating Effect on Our Environment
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Legalized Stealing

• Did you know our precious ground water is being
  depleted for the express purpose of lining the
  pockets of big industry? Nestle is one of the
  biggest offenders as you can see from this recent
  post by MintPressNews.com.

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• California is in one of the largest droughts they
  have ever seen and Nestle is sucking 80 million
  gallons of water out of their aquifers and
  selling it back to them! Hell they are even going
  into Canada and stealing it from them, you can
  read about it here.

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• Im not sure where the bottled water craze
  started but it is becoming one of the biggest
  ecological problems of this century. Were we the
  people really responsible for it just because of
  the convenience? Thats what I would like to talk
  about today, its been on my mind for some time
  and I feel we all have to do something about it.

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Is There a Solution?

• If we did in fact cause it for no other reason
  than convenience shame on us. What did we do
  before the bottled water? Brought water with us
  if we thought we would need it of course. It
  really would be that easy to stop this ecological
  mess.

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• Big business would stop sucking the water out of
  our aquifers because it would be the old supply
  demand routine, nobody buying, stop producing it.
  I guess the question comes down to is there
  enough of us willing to stop buying this product?

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• It used to be if we wanted to carry water with us
  we would simply use a container, fill it with
  water and bring it with us, why cant we do that
  now? There is so much wrong with bottled water it
  boggles the mind. From the oil it takes to make
  millions of these bottles to businesses stealing
  local water supplies, it has to stop.

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The Devastating Effect on Our Environment

• First of all the companies that are supplying the
  water are going into states and drilling down
  into the aquifer and draining them, here is yet
  another example in Florida. There have been
  reports of sink holes appearing and whole houses
  being lost down the hole.

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• The worst part is it took millions of years for
  these underwater aquifers to become what they
  are, its part of our earth and the way it works.
  It is part of nature and we all need them,
  plants, animals and humans. Im surely not a
  scientist but it does not take much of an
  imagination to think about what might happen if
  we deplete these.

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• There are many examples of these companies move
  into a location, negotiate a deal with the
  authorities and start pumping water at little to
  no cost.

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• The residents get nothing, the town might get a
  small payment but in some cases get nothing and
  the company that is doing the drilling gets to
  sell a product that cost them almost zero to
  produce and sell it for huge obscene profits.
  What the hells wrong with this picture?

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• If this scenario isnt bad enough, we now have
  the millions of bottles that have to be produced
  to put the water in. Holy Christmas, this is just
  as bad as the problem of sucking our aquifers
  dry. Many of these empty bottles end up in our
  land fills, on the side of the road and in our
  rivers. This problem has really become a
  ecological nightmare, we must stop it.

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• How, just stop buying the water. Is it really to
  much trouble to just buy a few water containers,
  walk over to our facets and fill them up when we
  are going out? Have we become that lazy? The gym
  where I go has installed a water station that you
  can fill up your water bottle and it has a
  counter on it that tells us how many plastic
  water bottles we have saved by doing this.

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• In one gym the counter is well over 50,000 and it
  has been installed less than a year. Imagine if
  all gyms did this. Imagine if we all did this.
  Imagine if no one bought bottled water any more.
  The depletion of our sacred aquifers would be
  saved.

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Ways to Help

• Our goal at Ink Toner Solutions is to help in
  any way we can with recycling and reusing
  products. We reuse spent printer cartridges which
  helps keep them out of the landfill and saves
  millions of gallons of oil each year. In our
  Northampton Computer Repair store we strongly
  advise of repairing computers and printers rather
  than buy new for as long as possible.

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• We are in the process of launching a new program
  that will allow consumers to lease to own their
  own laptops and tablets which is not a new idea
  but what is new is we will only offer refurbished
  machines. Again this will save on so many
  resources which is what we have to all think
  about going forward.

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• We are looking for new ideas revolving around
  conserving, recycling and reusing. Please give us
  your feedback and ideas you may have on solutions
  to these global problems.

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• We really are in this all together, none of us
  will be insulated when water runs out or it has
  become so scarce and precious that big business
  will be charging us outrageous amounts for every
  drop. But thats another post in and of itself.

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