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The fight to protect Great Lakes waters from bottled water commodification continues...from our partner FLOW (For Love Of Water): "Nestlé has now revived plans to more than double its pumping from 150 gallons per minute (gpm) to 400 gpm or 576,000 gallons per day (gpd) in Osceola County just north of Evart, Michigan. Production Well PWB101, White Pine Springs Site, as it is known, is located between two cold water Muskegon River tributary creeks, Twin and Chippewa Creeks. Last winter, when Nestlé applied for this pumping increase using the state’s computer water withdrawal assessment tool, it failed. Nestlé then requested and obtained a site specific review by DEQ staff that showed that only minimal declines in water levels in the summer of 2016."
If approved without full disclosure and public review, Nestlé would only create 20 new jobs, but would legally be entitled to bottle and sell nearly 500 million gallons per year of Michigan water at the Ice Mountain bottling facility in Stanwood, Michigan.
Comment letter can be sent to the DEQ at deq-eh@michigan.gov prior to March 3, 2017. Click link below for more information.
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