Letter to City of Sacramento Leadership

1. As a resident of the City of Sacramento and Earth Sciences instructor at a large private university, and having consulted on private and government projects in the past, I am very upset at the notion of privatization of our water supply, especially after 10 years of the Bush Administration's privatization policies of our banks, and even national park perimeter plan for coal etc. Please support Councilman McCarty's and this group's Save Our Water stance to stop Nestlé's from taking our water.

2. Here is the link to the movie Tapped being released all around the nation showing what other communities have experienced with corporations trying to take the water and how they hurt them.

Remember the movie China Town. Here we have it right out in the open with no shame right in front of us at all. Bottling water is no action plan for a drought.

See this movie Tapped, which played last week at The Crest http://www.tappedthemovie.com/

3. Here is an editorial that was printed in the Bee http://www.sacbee.com/1190/story/2264786.html

4. Here is the link to the clip that is about 5 minutes:


The “Great Pacific Garbage Patch,” a great stewy body of plastic and marine debris that floats an estimated 1000 miles west of California, is a shape-shifting mass far too large, and delicate and remote to ever be cleaned up, according to a researcher who recently returned from the area. But that might not stop the federal government from trying.


Moore, C. (2007). The Algalita Research Foundation Marine Synthetic Sea Retrieved November 23, 2007 from: http://www.algalita.org/pelagic_plastic_mov.html


5. I have much more information- and even ideas of how we might reform the local economy using our own water and producing local food as was reported on the front page of the Bee Sunday -


By Jim Downing
jdowning@sacbee.com
Published: Sunday, Oct. 25, 2009 - 12:00 am | Page 14A
Last Modified: Sunday, Oct. 25, 2009 - 4:59 pm
Sacramento-area farmers harvest a cornucopia of food each year – 3.4 million tons. More than 98 percent of this bounty is then shipped out of the region, and 2.2 million tons of food grown or processed elsewhere is hauled in to feed us.

http://www.sacbee.com/topstories/story/2279907.html


6. Localization brings the money home

McKibben (2007) reported that even in a small state like Vermont, a recent study found that if local consumers substituted local production for only 10% of the food we import, it would result in $376 million in new economic output, including $69 million in personal earnings from 3,616 new jobs. Also considered would be other environmental budget factors such as solar radiation, carbon, water, food, and energy and fuel budgets; and waste to soil cycle completion in congruence to zero waste.

McKibben (2007). Deep Economy. The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future. NY. Holt. P.165.


Thank you,


Karen Hansen


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