Nestlé is closing in on a lucrative water privatization deal that will hand it millions of gallons of some of the cleanest drinking water in drought-ravaged Oregon -- permanently. And get this: Nestlé will only pay one penny per 40 gallons of water -- and then it will turn around and sell the same water back to the public for $2.63 per gallon.

Globally, one in five people do not have access to fresh water. Across the planet, SumOfUs supporters are challenging Nestlé's devious efforts to privatize water at every turn: in California, in Pakistan and in British Columbia, Canada. And now we need your help to make sure Oregon isn't next.

Tell Oregon Governor Kate Brown to intervene and stop this terrible deal -- now.

Nestlé is coyly marketing this awful plan as a way to create local jobs -- but the reality is that it will only create 48.

And that's not the only way Oregon is getting conned. The cost to maintain the infrastructure needed to support the fleet trucks hauling water in and out of the bottling plant will come entirely out of the pockets of the public.

The truth is what Nestlé is trying to do in Oregon has been its mercenary strategy for decades: target a small, rural town in dire financial straits, offer them peanuts for their most precious resource and then make out like bandits. The fact that the world is facing a coming water crisis hasn't slowed it at all. If anything, Nestlé is becoming even more reckless. Now is a time to establish a precedent to how the world treats corporations like Nestlé who believe they can put a price on our most priceless resources.

Just last month SumOfUs was part of a massive mobilization in California urging Nestlé to stop bottling operations in the drought-stricken state. Now it's time to take the fight to Oregon's Governor Kate Brown -- the only person who can intervene to reject this awful deal.

This fight is bigger than just Oregon. Hundreds of thousands of SumOfUs supporters are turning the tide on water privatization worldwide. And we won't let Nestlé pick off another victim.

Demand Oregon scrap this deal with a serial corporate freeloader.

Thanks for all you do,
Angus, Nicole, and the rest of the SumOfUs team

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More information:

Oregon legislators protest Nestlé water deal, Statesman Journal, April 23, 2015
Nestlé is closing in on privatized water in Oregon, AmericaBlog, May 13, 2015
Nestlé Bottled-Water Plan Draws Fight in Drought-Stricken Oregon -- Bloomberg, May 26th, 2015
The Proposed Nestlé Bottled Water Facility In Cascade Locks: A Preliminary Analysis of the Economic Issues -- Food and Water Watch, October 2011