March 2017

Wine and Water Watch Team

Community Bill of Rights to protect people and the environment

“Protection of the environment has yet to become a moral obligation or a way of life for all. Current environmental laws, premised on permitting degradation, are allowing growing harm to the environment. Climate change is now threatening to send the planet irreversibly past a biologic “tipping point,” with potentially catastrophic consequences for people, ecosystems and …

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UPDATE: TAX ON WINE GRAPES AS WELL AS ON CANNABIS?

MARCH 26, 2017 UPDATE: The reaction of residents to the idea of taxing the wine industry for grapes in the same way cannabis growers are being taxed on marijuana crops is growing, as evidenced by another letter in yesterday’s Santa Rosa Press Democrat: http://www.pressdemocrat.com/opinion/6805574-181/sundays-letters-to-the-editor A tax on grapes EDITOR: The approval of Measure A, taxing …

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United Nations Human Rights Council: 1.7 million children killed yearly by pesticides

We feel that it is important to publish the report from the United Nations Human Rights Council  (UN Experts Slam Global Pesticide Industry for Human and Environmental Damage – Full Report estimating that our children, the most vulnerable of our populations, are dying from pesticide exposure at an alarming rate.  Consider the California Department of Pesticide Regulation website’s …

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Video Update: What if nature, like corporations, had the rights of a person? by Chip Colwell

Here’s a “mainstream” YouTube channel’s take on what recently happened in New Zealand. This took years to accomplish and sets a new higher standard worldwide. We applaud their accomplishment in honoring the rights of nature. Without a healthy environment, many species, including human beings may not survive on this planet. Nature provides many free services to …

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Winery Waste Discharge Meeting

Napa, Mendocino Winery Water Appropriation Applications Released by State Water Board

Vineyard owners frequently take water from streams illegally. They also file applications to legally withdraw water from rivers and streams although this may not be in the best interests of neighboring human and animal populations. A. Pott, of Napa, and Marietta Cellars’ Yorkville (southwest of Hopland in Mendocino County) ranch have filed Applications to Appropriate …

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List of California Wines Containing Arsenic

http://deadstate.org/heres-a-complete-list-of-the-wine-brands-that-have-been-poisoning-you-with-arsenic/  Sky Palma, DeadState.org, March 21, 2015 In previous posts on this website, we discussed the class-action lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court that took Big Wine to task for high levels of inorganic arsenic found in 83 wines (Doris Charles Et Al VS The Wine Group Et Al, Case Number BC 576061) . …

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