Anonymous ID: 9d03ef Oct. 10, 2023, 12:36 p.m. No.19709012   🗄️.is đź”—kun

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https://www.mintpressnews.com/nestle-to-take-200-million-gallons-of-water-per-year-from-michigan-town-pay-state-200/240229/

 

FLINT, MICHIGAN – Despite the outrage from residents, Nestlé — the world’s largest food and beverage company — has just been granted the right by the state of Michigan to vastly expand its Ice Mountain Natural Spring Water plant in the town of Stanwood, allowing the company to increase the amount of water it pumps from the town’s aquifer from 250 to 400 gallons per minute. The state’s Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), despite opposition from experts and residents alike, asserted that the new permit granted to Nestlé met the requirements of the Michigan Safe Drinking Water Act.

 

C. Heidi Grether, the director of the DEQ, remarked that the department had undertaken “the most extensive analysis of any water withdrawal in Michigan history” in order to determine if the bottled water plant’s operation presented a threat to the surrounding ecosystem and the sustainability of the aquifer.

 

Under the new permit, Nestlé will continue to pay just $200 annually in administrative fees for its use of this critical resource, which is in short supply in the state of Michigan.