Saturday, October 11, 2014

You Don't Need Water, But I Do

In the second Action Project for the Equality class, we wrote a manifesto that takes one side of a specific product/company of our choice. The purpose of this Action Project is to write a manifesto that empowers people to take action against inequalities in ownership. I focused on Ice Mountain water. I learned so much about the need of minimum wage workers and how their work is valued so much in companies. I am most proud of my final product and all the research I have done and the commandments I put together, my full manifesto is below:



                                                     Flickr, January 2009. Ice Mountain 
                     


Bottled water.  How are they all different? When did they originate? What’s up with it today? I am the CEO of Nestle, the company that produces Ice Mountain Water. We provide our customers with clean and convenient drinking water, but many people wonder how our water gross so much money. because it's great water but some wonder why it has a different label and grosses so much money. Water is the main component of what we use everyday. We cook, to , build buildings, and we simply need it to survive. All living things need water to survive and there is no other substance that can substitute it.


In 1767, Michigan Jackson Spa was the first establishment to bottle and commercialize water. The production of bottled water has changed drastically over time. There are more varieties of water such as, mineral water, purified water, filtered water, and distilled water. Today, there is a higher demand for bottled water because less cities in the United States have access to clean tap water. Because it is hard to access clean tap water, people go to their local stores and markets  buy bottled water. Bottled water is necessary so that people may get clean water whenever they want, without risking their health by getting water from their local wells or lakes.


I'll privatize water so with that I may provide clean drinking water to people in the communities from which we will pump our water and to people all over the world. Since I am providing clean drinking water to the people living where our factories are, I will also tax them for I am providing them with something they will otherwise not have access to.  I know that there are going to be some people devastated if they can't get their own water and their own kind of water that they want specifically, so I won't stop supplying water for the people.


As the CEO of Nestle, my goal is to get clean drinking water to as many people as possible. In order to do this, I will make sure that the people working for Nestle are well-paid and happy so that they continue to produce one of the most important products on the market.  As the CEO, I will buy out smaller companies to ensure that all people have equal access to the finest bottled water on the market. I believe that as the person that makes the most important decisions, that I receive a large percentage of the profits made from the sale of the water. . I believe in capitalism and I truly think that the economy will be better off handled by people with money and power. I would disagree with Marx and Engels theory because I believe in private property and only the rich can have control and power.


  • Tax Em'! -  I will tax the people on their water because I'm the one making it better for them. I make sure that wherever I get this water from that it is filtered, even though some cities have "fresh" water me and my colleagues think it needs a little more processing before it is consumed by the people. I'm just trying to help you, but in order for me to help I'm going to need some more money to further this production.   
  • The Freshest Water - Give people the freshest water at their local markets because not every city has clean consumable water. So this is for any place that needs fresh water and any place that has not tried my refreshing bottled water.
  • Infinite Water - I will never stop supplying bottled water to people because I know that there are going to be some people devastated if they can't get their own water and their own kind of water that they want specifically.
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King, Hobart. 'Where Does Bottled Water Come From?. 3. (2013): 2. Web 10/14/014. http://geology.com

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