Nestle complains

[divindoubles]

I went to work for a well known company as a home water purifier salesman. During training, I was paired with one of the old hands who was the top rep for his area/district. He took me out with him to an area which he plotted by locating a cemetery and targeting the neighborhoods nearby. We then proceeded to conduct in home 'water purity' tests which basically involved dipping a test strip in the tap water, looking at it in amazement, and then smelling it, making a disgusted face and then asking the question...

"Is there a graveyard near here?"

You can imagine the results. Talk about manufacturing demand.

[Gene Powell]

Zero! I don't see how that is possible. And most rational people wouldn't consider the Suwannee River a waste! Check out Blue Gold- World Water Wars. It's a documentary, and it's a good overview of what is happening. I agree that overpopulation is the #1 problem, but that's a pretty lame excuse to allow this kind of thievery. Jeb bankrupted our states finances, and tried to get our water too! The SJRWMD has a plan to pump water from the Ocklawaha River so developers can keep stacking houses on top of one another. The City of Rockledge is planning on pumping their sewage effluent into the aquafir as a cheaper way of disposing of it! Even my dog is smart enough to not crap in her water dish!
As far as poor Tommy Green goes, it sounds like " Somebody Done Hoodooed the Hoodoo Man"!

[Shan]

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?

It flows to the Santa Fe. The Santa Fe empties into the Suwannee near Branford. The Suwannee is a major Florida river which empties into the Gulf of Mexico. It is an ecosystem in need of protection. The Suwannee estuarine system depends on a precise amount of fresh water to keep it healthy, as do all estuarine systems. The timing, duration, and distribution of fresh water is essential to the health of a natural eco-system. Bottling isn't only a question of depleting the aquifer - it's also a question of the amount of fresh water making it through the system and out to the estuaries.