Water use issue will
need cooperation
The governmental
officials in Florida have the brains of an ant in heat.
Yes, I know, saying
this will have every ant in Florida up in arms to hunt me down and make me
retract that statement!
Either that or they
are once again keeping their brains locked up in their wallets?
Water use issue will
need cooperation
Stop giving our
water away Stupid!
They allowed Nestle
to Pay $230 To Suck Millions Of Gallons Of Water From Florida Until 2018
By welters March 31,
2008
That's Two Hundred
and Thirty Dollars folks, while the company makes Millions of dollars selling
the water back to Florida?
What would happen to
our economy if Florida was running and hiring companies of our own?
Now
Florida Officials:
Solving water use issue will require cooperation
Officials in Lake
and some surrounding counties are going to have to work together to find an
additional 250 million gallons a day of fresh water to meet the next two
decades’ projected demand?
It’s unclear what
the sources will be, according to one official with the Southwest Florida Water
Management District.“We have to develop strategies that will not demand
increased groundwater,” said Mark Hammond, director of the district’s Resource
Management Division.
The consumption is
at or near its capacity to tap the aquifer, Hammond said. Meanwhile, the
projected water need is expected to grow to 1.1 billion gallons per day by
2035, Hammond said. This is why the Central Florida Water Initiative was
created to come up with long-term water supply solutions. In addition to
representatives from the St. Johns River Water Management District, South
Florida Water Management District and Southwest Florida Water Management
District, whose boundaries all meet in the Central Florida area, this water
initiative will involve local governments, and representatives from industrial,
agricultural and environmental interest groups, Hammond said.
Stop giving our
water away Stupid!
Nestle Paying $230
To Suck Millions Of Gallons Of Water From Florida Until 2018
By welters March 31,
2008
Despite fierce
opposition from the local water management district staff, and concerns that it
would deplete an already scarce natural resource from the people who live
there, Nestle managed to secure a deal to pump nearly 1.5 million gallons of
water a day into their Deer Park bottling plant for the next ten years. Nestle
pays no other fees for the water beyond the $230 license—in fact, “Nestle has
received two [tax] refunds totaling $196,000 and requested a third tax refund.”
To make the matter even more offensive, the plant hasn’t delivered on its
commitment to employ 300 workers, and it so far has failed to bring in the
estimated $12 million-a-year to the local economy. The St. Petersburg Times has
a rich, infuriating history of the Nestle fiasco and how they’ve conned
Floridians out of their own water with the help of state politicians.