HEADLINES
Visit the Perrier Crystal Springs Bottling Plant in Florida.
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EVENTS
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1st & 3rd Tuesdays
Sweetwater North Meeting:
at the Quaker Meeting House, corner of 5th and Oak in TC. Cafe / sweets will be served. Next meeting posted by e-mail list and/or on our website: www.waterissweet.org
BOYCOTT
Perrier Corp. operates a 250,000 sq. ft. water bottling facility near Stanwood, pumping up to 720,000 gallons per day from the heart of the Great Lakes basin at a profit of as much as $1.8 million dollars per day.
“If it was possible to bottle sunshine, well I guess they would do that and sell it back to us.”
WATER FACTS
* Since 1950, the global renewable freshwater supply per person has fallen 58 percent as world population has swelled from 2.5 billion to 6 billion.
* By 2015, nearly 3 billion people-40 percent of the projected world population-are expected to live in countries that find it difficult or impossible to mobilize enough water to satisfy the food, industrial, and domestic needs of their citizens.
* Today Asia has approximately 60 percent of the world's people but only 36 percent of the world's renewable freshwater.
* Currently water-stressed countries in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East account for 26 percent of global grain imports. China, India, and Pakistan - all presently grain self-sufficient-will likely join the ranks of grain importers in the near future because of decreasing water availability per capita.
* On July 6, 2000, thousands of farmers in China's lower Yellow River basin clashed with police over a government plan to recapture runoff from a local reservoir.
* Two or more countries share some 261 of the world's rivers. These international watersheds account for about 60 percent of the world's freshwater supply and are home to about 40 percent of the world's people.
* An analysis of 1,831 international water-related disputes over the last 50 years reveals that two thirds of these encounters were of a cooperative nature while one fourth were hostile. On 37 recorded occasions, rival countries went beyond verbal antagonism and fired shots, blew up a dam, or undertook some other form of military action.
* The only recorded incident of an outright war over water was 4,500 years ago between two Mesopotamian city-states, Lagash and Umma, in the region we | 
