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Our Santa Fe River began in 2007 as a group of regular people that wanted to stop four water bottling operations on the Santa Fe River in North Florida. We did just that. Since then, we’ve evolved into an organization determined to Protect Our Water.
Protecting water quality and quantity is a local and regional issue that affects people around the world. Whether from excessive water use or uncontrolled contaminants, our water needs to be protected from businesses and individuals that don’t seem to care about the effects they have on local water resources. They don’t seem to care about the people’s rights to use those water resources. They don’t seem to care about the environment that they harm.
YOU’RE HERE BECAUSE YOU CARE. NOW IT’S YOUR CHANCE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
BE INFORMED. Join us in helping others understand the issues by understanding the issues yourself. Below is a list of some of those issues and some recent posts about them. Below that you’ll find all the articles we’ve published about bottled water. There’s a treasure trove of information about what we’ve done to protect our water and the science behind it. Please read on.
- Water bottling depletes our springs and aquifer which are already damaged
- Eliminating bottled water is easiest step to starting springs recovery
- State Fails To Protect, Then Pays To Restore Springs
- NESTLE HEARING UPDATE From Florida Springs Council
- Seven Springs Water Co., Ginnie & Money, ACCORDING TO JAKE
- Does Florida’s Water Spring Eternal?
- Bottling Permit Would Contribute To Ginnie Springs’ Demise
- Protect Water Supply From More Bottling
- Not One Drop More
- Bottling Permit Risks Harm To Environment – Gainesville Sun Editorial
- Time to end the corporate giveaway of Florida’s water | Editorial
- Largest Hydrologic Restoration Project Ever Undertaken In The United States.
- Spring water belongs to everyone, not just private corporations
- Story Of Stuff: Our Water Is Not For Sale
- Does Florida’s Water Spring Eternal?
- Bottled Water Archives – Page 7 of 31
- The Great Water Grab: Wall Street Is Buying Up The World’s Water
- Taxpayers will be responsible for bill when Florida’s springs run dry
- The Fight To Stop Nestlé From Taking America’s Water To Sell In Plastic Bottles
- It’s Our Water. Many Are Outraged That Florida Gives It Away To Corporations. | The Buzz
- Your tap water is probably more pure and healthier
- The plastic bottles pollute the world and put our health at risk
- Coca-Cola, Nestlé, And PepsiCo Named Top Plastic Polluters For The Second Year In A Row
- Study: Plastic Pollution Increases Ocean Acidification
- Nestle Bottled Water Contains PFAS
- Chemical Used To Line Plastic Bottles Is Linked To Premature Death
- Nestlé Pollutes Rivers With More Than Plastic | Our Santa Fe
- Plus Plastic: Microplastics Found In Global Bottled Water, Nestle Is Worst
- Nestle And Others Sued For Plastic Pollution
- Read Here What Nestle’s Plastic Bottles Are Doing To Our Planet
- Nestle Among World’s Three Greatest Plastic Polluters
- Bottles are shipped away and the water is removed from our water cycle
- Bottling water is not in the public interest
BlueTriton Products In the News.
Arlene Slocombe of the organization Water Watchers in Ontario has written the following to OSFR’s advisor Merrillee Malwitz-Jipson, who has international ties to Canadian groups fighting water bottlers. The following echoes predictions for the Dean […]
BlueTriton Gets Shut Down In California
Such happy news from California where the authorities have so much more common sense and fairness than in Florida. One never knows when money and lawyers are involved, but it appears that the battle is […]
Two Huge Bottled Water Corporations Merge
The article below is way too long but we include it only because it may contain information of interest to a few. Rather than a healthy, sustainable hydration platform this merger creates a larger conglomeration […]
Bottled Water Most Concentrated Source for Microplastics Ingestion
Of all the negatives from bottled water, and they are many, a new one has emerged which may be among the most serious of all; ingesting microplastics. The following statement is from PNAS: […]
Failure to Protect
OSFR has a long history of fighting not only small private water companies, huge corporations such as Nestle and BlueTriton, as well as agencies such as the DEP and the Forest Service. Even though […]
“…10 to 100 Times Greater Than Previously Estimated.”
Ingested, inhaled, absorbed through the skin, nanoplastics invade our bodies. Just as when we inject toxic water into the earth, we do not know yet the extent of the damage we sustain. But the […]
Water Bottlers Damage Water Resources Belonging to the People
The wells pumping water from Ginnie Springs, owned by Seven Springs Water Company, do so in utter defiance of one Florida statue which says pumping permits may not be given if they are against the […]
FSC Update On Seven Springs Legal Challenge – The “Nestle” Case
Thanks to Ryan Smart of the Florida Springs Council for the update on the pumping permit at Ginnie Springs. This fiasco stands as the height of injustice, bias and malfeasance of the governing boards […]
Latest Bullying By BlueTriton
BlueTriton continues the bullying in Maine that Nestle made a tradition wherever they went. BlueTriton cares nothing for the springs nor the environment, they only want money. Read the original article with photos here […]
BlueTriton/Nestle Gets Slapped Down
Although coming after many years, justice seems to have prevailed in California. Those following our posts know very well the underhanded bullying tactics of Nestle and BlueTriton. This company puts profits over everything else […]