A recent story in the Orlando Sentinel talks about another town’s battle against another bottled water manufacturer.
According to the Sentinel, Niagara Bottling LLC wants to draw almost half a million gallons of water daily from the Floridan Aquifer near Groveland, FL. Last summer, Groveland filed a legal challenge to Niagara’s request saying that Niagara’s plans are not in the public interest, especially when St. John’s River Water Management District, in which Groveland is located, has tightened watering restrictions and urged communities to search for alternative water sources. “That’s hypocritical, according to Groveland council members and other opponents,” according to the Sentinel story by Martin E. Comas. Groveland had been joined in the suit by Lake County which, despite at least one county commissioner’s objection to the project, dropped out of the court battle saying the fight was getting too expensive.
Every Community should have Their own water bottleing Company for Local use only for convience and emergency’s. Corperations to come in truck water many more miles for Corperate Stock Share Holders to Start Making Money off of spring water before they even get a shovel in the ground. Is not Sustainabled for any community’s Benifet. They could take a percentage of the spring water add other water to it, filter out somethings then put other things back in. Creating a posisbility for E- Coli and who knows what. Some time back maybe March or April there was a High School in Costa Mesa, California, that had contaminated bottled water in there vending machines. Modern test show tap water is as good or even sometime better and safer then Bottled Water. I believe if Chaffee Citizens could get on the same page we can step up the recycleing in the County produced our own brand of bottled water. Market it on light rail to Pueblo on renewable energy then we can be a model for the Nation. In Stead of doing it “Old School” Like Nestle wants to do it. Then we can put it to sleep the Idea of sending trucks to Denver and increasing the Carbon Footprint. Namaste, Carlo