The water is already low at a Florida freshwater spring - but Nestle wants more

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In Florida, Nestlé is taking heat from environmental groups and others concerned about the future of one of the state's most endangered natural resources — its freshwater springs. Florida has more than a thousand freshwater springs, which provide drinking water, important natural habitat and places for recreation.

Nestlé wants to begin taking more than a million gallons of water each day from Ginnie Springs, a popular destination in north Florida for swimming, canoeing and tubing.

Nestlé and many other companies have bottled and sold Florida spring water for decades. For the past 20 years, Seven Springs, the company that owns the land around Ginnie Springs, has had a permit allowing it to take nearly 1.2 million gallons a day from its wells.

During that time, working with other water bottlers, the company never withdrew more than a quarter of that.

Nestlé now wants to increase the daily withdrawal to the full amount, a request that has set off alarm bells among environmental groups.

At: https://www.npr.org/2019/11/08/776776312/the-water-is-already-low-at-a-florida-freshwater-spring-but-nestl-wants-more

Vacationers enjoy the Santa Fe River near High Springs, Florida - a river sourced from Ginnie Springs.

[live love laugh]

1. Nestle is at the heart of Flint Michigan's water crisis. nt

[Mike 03]

2. Really hoping some of the NGOs in Florida fight this hard.

If anyone wants to dig deeper into this subject there's a very good book on the Florida water situation that includes a few chapters specifically on the Springs issue. It's called Drying Up by John Dunn. There are some very smart and principled people fighting for these springs. Nestle is really becoming a problem. It's the Blackwater of water companies.