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Privatization No Cure-All for Infrastructure Woes: Repairing U.S Water Systems Could Boost Employment, Help Ravaged Economy

October 14, 2008

Press release: The network of pipes that delivers water to U.S consumers spans 1.5 million miles, roughly the distance of three trips from Earth to the moon and back. They deliver this essential resource to more than 300 million citizens as they work, play and raise families. Yet much of this infrastructure is over 100 years old and in serious need of repair. Aging water and sewer pipes lead to myriad social and environmental problems, such as interruptions in water service, sewage overflows and polluted waterways. Meanwhile, the U.S. unemployment rate is running at its highest in five years and the nation’s economy is wilting from the effects of bad mortgages, drooping consumer confidence and the Federal government’s bailout of Wall Street’s teetering financial giants. Yet, analysis by the consumer advocacy group Food & Water Watch finds that one billion dollars in federal infrastructure investment would create 47,500 jobs, $1.3 billion in worker income, prompting $6.1 billion in overall activity.

FDA Deems Milk Contaminant Safe Despite Unknown Health Risks

October 3, 2008

Press Release: Statement of Wenonah Hauter, Food & Water Watch Executive Director: Today, the Food and Drug Administration condoned the intentional adulteration of food with melamine by issuing a risk assessment for the industrial chemical that was added to milk and milk-based ingredients produced in China.

Local Activists, Our Santa Fe River and Food & Water Watch Halt Attempt to Privatize Gilchrist County Water as County Commission Denies “Special Use” Permit for New Water Extraction Facility

October 2, 2008

Press Release: Over 200 residents from Gilchrist, Alachua, Columbia and Suwannee Counties came out on Tuesday to demonstrate their opposition to a proposed bottling facility along the Santa Fe River. After six hours of public testimony the County Commission voted 4-1 to deny a "special use" permit to allow Blue Springs Properties Inc. to extract water from a spring on the river. The new bottling facility would have pumped a minimum 500,000 gallons of water a day. Coca-Cola already operates a facility 5,000 feet from the proposed site that can pump up to 1.2 million gallons of water a day.

Salmonella Contamination – Is Irradiation the Solution?

June 13, 2008

Executive director of Food & Water Watch and author of the new book Zapped! Irradiation and the Death of Food, Hauter said today: "As stores and restaurants around the country pull tomatoes from shelves and menus in response to the recent salmonella outbreak, American tomato farmers are poised to lose their livelihoods and the food irradiation industry sees dollar signs.

Book Signing Event: Groundbreaking Food Irradiation Book

June 5, 2008

Author Wenonah Hauter, of the new book Zapped! Irradiation and the Death of Food, will be reading from and signing her book at Busboys & Poets in Washington, DC.

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