Evart’s White Pine Springs Takes Center Stage in North America’s Water Wars — As Nestlé prepares to sell off its bottled water brands, Michiganders join communities across North America demanding the return of their local water sources Evart is taking center stage in North America’s “water wars” as local advocates demand that Nestlé Waters North…
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We’ve been patient – now it’s time for action!
Times of Peril and Promise The triple crises of global pandemic, climate change, and rising assaults on social and environmental justice have brought us to the brink of radical transformation in the way we live on this singular planet called Earth. We still have a chance to choose life over extinction, but time is running…
We salute the protests taking place against racial violence, the most brutal aspect of systemic racism.
June 9,2020 Structural racism is woven through the fabric of the most basic of human needs. While George Floyd was denied air to breathe, thousands of people, the vast majority of color, have been denied clean water, for months and years as in Flint. While industry pumps and seizes massive amounts of the water in…
Release: MCWC Filed Complaint with Attorney General to stop Nestle’s damage to Ecosystem in Osceola County
July 12, 2020 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Complaint Filed with Attorney General to stop Nestle’s damage to Ecosystem in Osceola County Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation (MCWC) has just sent a formal complaint by registered letter to the Attorney General of Michigan seeking an investigation into the environmental destruction we have documented in the Muskegon River…
MCWC Complaint Letter to MI AG Nessel
Dana Nessel Michigan Attorney General G. Mennon Williams Building 526 W. Ottawa P.O. Box 30212 Lansing, Mi 48909 Dear Ms Nessel, We are submitting the following formal complaint to your office on behalf of Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation (MCWC) and its many members. This has nothing to do with our contested Case challenging the…
Gov. Whitmer Extends Water Reconnection Order Through 2020, Announces Historic Investment in Water Assistance for Michigan Families
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 8, 2020 Contact: press@michigan.gov Governor Whitmer Extends Water Reconnection Order Through 2020, Announces Historic Investment in Water Assistance for Michigan Families Governor outlines priorities to move Michigan toward water affordability, calls on federal government to provide additional water assistance LANSING, Mich. — Today Governor Gretchen Whitmer took…
Action Needed to Stop Nestle’s Water Grab
Action Alert – May 18 MCWC and the Grand Traverse Band have taken exception to the proposal for decision issued by Judge Pulter in the EGLE Administrative Law court on April 24. Now we need the administration of Gretchen Whitmer to take this issue seriously as they promised to do before the election. Nestle’s water…
Exceptions filed by MCWC to Judge’s Proposal for Decision in Nestle Case
Exceptions filed by Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation to Judge’s Proposal for Decision in Nestle Case May 15, 2020 Rarely does a ruling by an Administrative Law Judge overturn a permit issued by a state agency. In the contested Case Hearing on the Nestle permit for PW-101, MCWC and the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa…
MCWC News Release on Nestle Challenge
News Release on Nestle Challenge by Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation April 27, 2020 The April 24 ruling by Administrative Law Judge Daniel L. Pulter issued on behalf of the Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (formerly MDEQ) upheld the permit issued to Nestle Corporation by the MDEQ to pump water from the White…
Household Instructions for Water Restorations
https://www.savemiwater.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/PWB-Household-Instructions-for-Water-Restorations.pdf