WASHINGTON - September 19 - Across the country and around the globe, communities are now locked into fierce battles over their most essential resource: water. As bottling, privatization, underfunding, and pollution threaten their water supplies, people from Felton to Fryeburg and from South Africa to Bolivia are facing the same problems. Corporations like Nestlé are buying up control of water resources, turning shared resources that are indispensable for everyone into private property to be exploited for profit. A global water crisis looms, and it is no accident.

WASHINGTON - September 17 - What's in your water? Every year, more than 860 billion gallons of raw and partially treated sewage lands in America's waters, and most people have no idea. Today, lawmakers in the Senate took an important step towards changing that. The Committee on Environment and Public Works overwhelmingly approved legislation that would require the public be notified in the event of a sewage spill.

HIGH SPRINGS, Fla. - September 16 - A group of citizens in Gilchrist County, Florida is mobilizing against a potential contract to extract and bottle more water from the Santa Fe River, demonstrating that momentum against the corporate control of our nation's water resources is growing.  While a "special use" permit has been filed by a campground called Blue Springs, the company that would ultimately profit from the operation has not been revealed.

LOS ANGELES - September 11 - Water consciousness is hitting theaters, restaurants, and book stores this week in the city that was first to limit city spending on bottled water. Leading dining establishments like Grace Restaurant have announced their decision to stop selling bottled water.  This Friday, Sundance documentary FLOW opens in theaters and a new book, Water Consciousness, will soon be hitting shelves.

WASHINGTON - September 10 - The bottled water that millions of Americans drink each day is allowed to contain higher levels of a toxic chemical associated with birth defects and cancer than tap water, according to a bottled water expert from the Natural Resources Defense Council who will testify in the Senate today.  

WASHINGTON - September 10 - Today the United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Transportation Safety, Infrastructure Security, and Water Quality will hear testimony on SB 790, which amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require manufacturers of bottled water to submit annual reports about contamination.