Nestle complains

In today's Wall Street Journal, the Nestle Corporation was reflecting on the downturn in sales of bottled water. I wept for them uncontrollably. I guess all the flavored water drinks sold by so many now don't require the guise of quality spring water in it's mix. Thus the reduction in spring water sales. A gallon of their water costs more than a gallon of refined gasoline............get lost punk azzes. If you are a cave diver and buy spring water.........I don't know what to say to you.

Easy solution to their losses: Pull your stinking well points out of the ground and LEAVE Florida.

For anybody that missd this link I posted last month in another thread:

http://www.dcbureau.org/20090720190/...30-permit.html

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Originally Posted by OutlawCaver

I guess all the flavored water drinks

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Maybe they need to do a massive news story on how I "flavor" the water everytime I dive Madison :rollguy

More people may think twice before drinking bottled water.

Cheers,
Jeff

One of my cave buddies was on a boat out of So FL recently. He was diving his basic cave configuration. The owner of the boat asked my buddy if he was a real cave diver, or just a poser?

My buddy after noticing the bottled water the boat owner was holding answered in a fashion consistant with the southern gentleman that he is, "Well sir, if you'll pardon my language, I am pretty certain I pissed in the water where that bottle came from just last week."

True story :rollguy

You gotta be heck of diver to pee upstream from the Deer's bottling well.

doesnt Nestles water say purified drinking water not well water?

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Originally Posted by OutlawCaver

In today's Wall Street Journal, the Nestle Corporation was reflecting on the downturn in sales of bottled water. I wept for them uncontrollably. I guess all the flavored water drinks sold by so many now don't require the guise of quality spring water in it's mix. Thus the reduction in spring water sales. A gallon of their water costs more than a gallon of refined gasoline............get lost punk azzes. If you are a cave diver and buy spring water.........I don't know what to say to you.

Easy solution to their losses: Pull your stinking well points out of the ground and LEAVE Florida.

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I'm a cave diver and I drink the hell out of the stuff. And just to clarify, spring water withdrawal permits don't allow the company to "pump" from the aquifer, but rather capture a portion of the discharge of the spring. In other words, there is ZERO effect on the potentiometric surface of the aquifer. (Unlike municipal production wells.)

Let me ask you a question... what happens to the water, if Nestle doesn't bottle if from Ginnie Springs?

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Originally Posted by KarsticGator

Let me ask you a question... what happens to the water, if Nestle doesn't bottle if from Ginnie Springs?

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It flows serenely down the river collecting agricultural runoff, septic tank effluent, stormwater from buildings and parking lots, rotting dead animals, tires, a zillion old beer cans, pee from tubers, alligator poop, and other such delights until it merges with the pristine Suwanee river to become the drinking water supply for various towns along the way until it is peacefully flushed into the Gulf, gently flowing into the loop current to mix with the little gift we have received from our friends at BP.

Less discharge will change the characteristics of whatever the spring water feeds into... Lots of rivers have a diverse ecology simply because of the spring water discharge, an ecology that simply wouldn't exist in that area without those levels of spring water contribution.

Some of that discharge enters back into the aquifer sinks/swallets within the run and/or riverbed. Some runs dissappear entirely back into the aquifer. Less of that happens when water bottlers pump it and ship it out of state. :P

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Originally Posted by OFG-1

It flows serenely down the river collecting agricultural runoff, septic tank effluent, stormwater from buildings and parking lots, rotting dead animals, tires, a zillion old beer cans, pee from tubers, alligator poop, and other such delights until it merges with the pristine Suwanee river to become the drinking water supply for various towns along the way until it is peacefully flushed into the Gulf, gently flowing into the loop current to mix with the little gift we have received from our friends at BP.

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I couldn't have said it any better.