[Cida]

Monetizing and privatizing water all over, really.

Bottled Water Is Sucking Florida Dry
Florida has the largest concentration of freshwater springs in the world, but they are being devastated by increasing pollution and drastic declines in water flow.
Opinion | Bottled Water Is Sucking Florida Dry | News on the Flipside

[beach43ofus]

How long has this been going on? When did it start? Is this a new issue? If you know, plz chime in.

[bmw335xi]

We all need to do our part and drink coke instead of water

[kyle19125]

Let's not forget the phosphate industry either, which is most likely behind the red tide issues. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...drinking-water

[TreeBeard]

Well, when Nestle can extract a million gallons of water PER DAY for free with the payment of a $115.00 application fee what do you expect. No wonder bottled water is such a high profit item for Nestle.

Florida has itself to blame for treating its resources as disposable. Change the law and charge them what the resource is worth.

If not, vote out the bums who have turned their backs on their constituents for the support of the bottled water industry.

[vaughanwilliams]

300,000+ people a year moving here all wanting their luxurious landscaped yard ain't helping either.

[boxus]

Originally Posted by vaughanwilliams

300,000+ people a year moving here all wanting their luxurious landscaped yard ain't helping either.

And the millions more in HOAs that mandate the sidewalk, driveway, and roof be power washed once a year. Can only think the billions of gallons a year that wastes.

[BNBR]

Florida has no shortage of fresh water. In fact, a major issue is that we keep having to pump it out in to the ocean, which is causing other issues. You can't have it both ways. You can't complain about all the pumping/red tide and then complain we have no water because XYZ Corporation is stealing it all. The premise is ridiculous.

Even a huge portion of homes are on canals and retaining ponds, which provide the water for landscaping. And we still have to continuously pump these canals and ponds out to keep from flooding.

This article is just blatant fear mongering. Heck, it even includes a couple pictures of poor people IN A DIFFERENT DAMN COUNTRY who look dried out and and carrying water buckets. And the article goes on to complain about Nestle, in Michigan, which is right next to 1/5th of the entire planets fresh water (the GREAT LAKES). You couldn't run out of fresh water in Michigan under any circumstance and yet scare articles about Nestle pumping water from a ground source the size of Lake Huron. Consider the great lakes make up about 6 quadrillion gallons of water, and could cover the entire continental US in about 10 feet of water. But by golly, Nestle is bottling some of it! Are you scared now? Goodness.

As for Florida... Nestle wants to draw out about 1.1 million gallons a day. Sounds horrifying, right? Don't expect a fair article from people who traffic in fear and nonsense. That volume of water is approximately .05% of the daily outflow of the spring. A fraction of a fraction of a percent. What a catastrophe!

[gypsychic]

Originally Posted by BNBR

Florida has no shortage of fresh water. In fact, a major issue is that we keep having to pump it out in to the ocean, which is causing other issues. You can't have it both ways. You can't complain about all the pumping/red tide and then complain we have no water because XYZ Corporation is stealing it all. The premise is ridiculous.

Even a huge portion of homes are on canals and retaining ponds, which provide the water for landscaping. And we still have to continuously pump these canals and ponds out to keep from flooding.

This article is just blatant fear mongering. Heck, it even includes a couple pictures of poor people IN A DIFFERENT DAMN COUNTRY who look dried out and and carrying water buckets. And the article goes on to complain about Nestle, in Michigan, which is right next to 1/5th of the entire planets fresh water (the GREAT LAKES). You couldn't run out of fresh water in Michigan under any circumstance and yet scare articles about Nestle pumping water from a ground source the size of Lake Huron. Consider the great lakes make up about 6 quadrillion gallons of water, and could cover the entire continental US in about 10 feet of water. But by golly, Nestle is bottling some of it! Are you scared now? Goodness.

As for Florida... Nestle wants to draw out about 1.1 million gallons a day. Sounds horrifying, right? Don't expect a fair article from people who traffic in fear and nonsense. That volume of water is approximately .05% of the daily outflow of the spring. A fraction of a fraction of a percent. What a catastrophe!

Well, consider the source of the "article" which is NOT an article at all, but an opinion piece from a non-credible source. The internet is full of crap like this and people who like to spread it. If it's on the internet it must be true, right?

[beach43ofus]

This opinion piece is written to persuade readers to hate evil corporations...like Nestle. It uses fear to conjur hate. I think it was really written by Bernie Sanders under a pseudonym.