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Think Sits Down With Nestle's Chairman  September 11, 2009,
10:08 AM  Tucked away on the north shore of Switzerland's Lake
Geneva is a town called Vevey. It's home to Nestle's
headquarters, as well as its former CEO and now Chairman Peter
Brabeck. We were lucky enough to catch up with him a couple
weeks ago. The story of how Brabeck came to spend 40 years at
Nestle is a peculiar one. For a while, he didn't even realize he
was employed by the food giant- he thought he was just selling
ice cream! For someone who started skiing at age two and hasn't
stopped, life has been full of adventures. Perhaps most
interestingly, we had a chance to delve into Brabeck's true
passion, one that rarely comes up at your average American
dinner table: the water crisis. He's convinced we'll run out of
it before we run out of oil. His idea for a