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Bottled Water Companies: How Does it Work?

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my guess

 States like Michigan and Illinois are by Lake Michigan, where water is measured in the trillions of gallons, even the square mile.   Cities that are looking for jobs for there citizens offer companies sweetheart deals to build factories nearby.  Odds are they're selling water cheaply or at a loss, to attract jobs. 

 

Jobs create other jobs.  My company did business with many of the Chicago area pop companies, incl CocaCola bottlers because they did so much production of Dasani water (bottled tap).  We bought there used boxes.  They employed 100's if not 1,000's we employed about 14. 

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That article is really low on info. This seemed a bit better:

http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2016/10/nestle_groundwater_pumping_exp.html

 

The problem seems with Michigan laws, not treating water as public property, but as property of land owner.

 

Where I live, companies have to pay for every gallon of water pumped (albeit the fee is still extremely low here). 

From economic point of view, state will still get a lot from it from taxes, apart from jobs as mentioned above.

(In this Michigan case, expansion will add 20 jobs, that's fairly little gain, and likely not an issue here.)

Here it seems more of an ecological (too much water pumped) than economical ("water sold for $200") issue.

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I'm surprised its so few jobs.  (might want to double check since its a huge plant)  If that's the case then having a foreign (or US) company drain so much of a shared asset, so cheaply should be looked at very closely and maybe stopped. 

 

Beyond the water the plastic used is also abominable.  Tons and tons of plastic being used and much of it finding its way into landfills. 

 

The above article is from Oct 31st of this year, so I'm glad its getting press and hope its looked into. Ultimately it'll be up to Michigan citizens to look into it, find out the true numbers and raise hell if they feel they've gotten a bad deal. 

 

For anyone though, if you want to do something, and feel you've gotten enough information.  Here is a link to a petition against it- https://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/stop-nestle-from-doubling-the-amount-of-free-michigan-water

 

 

I don't feel reading both articles and the comments I've gotten enough information to sign it.  I haven't heard from the other side.  Maybe the fact that they're not in the comments is telling in itself.

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How they work depends on what level.   Guy buys some cheap land in Tasmania. he puts up  all these 'roofs' ;  poles holding up slanted roofing 'tin' sheets  and big water tanks. Collects the rain and bottles it. he doesnt go big scale but ams at 'botique water' market in Europe. He markets it as pristine , environmental , way down there, untouched, pure Tasmanian ........   water. 

 

High priced too  ; ' quality, not quantity '   .......  and research and marketing , keep big biz and plant costs down and skyrocket sales price .  

 

Enough for him to get by nicely , no big biz hassles and still live in Tassie in a nice place (without wrecking it ) .

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