How Grassroots Activism Beat a Corporate Water Giant in Rockland County

How Grassroots Activism Beat a Corporate Water Giant in Rockland County

This week, we’re celebrating the 10th anniversary of a tremendous grassroots victory protecting water and the public good in Rockland County, NY. It all began in 2007, when United Water (owned by multinational water corporation Suez, the North American arm of which has now merged into and become Veolia) announced plans for a desalination plant in Rockland County.  To residents, it quickly became clear that this plan was an expensive and environm…