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In reply to the discussion: Nestle Group -"Access to Water Is Not Your Right" [View all]PotatoChip
(3,186 posts)Some of Nestles' aquifers are located in my county. The ones I know about are in a rural area accessed by state and county roads. Once they built the aquifers, their cost was minimal. Those aquifers provided 0 local jobs (that I know of).
They just take the water and drive their 100k pound trucks in and out of the area, day and night, to their bottling plant/distribution center. That bottling/distribution center is a couple of hours away from here, so is of minimal value to us job-wise. But the roads take a pounding.
As far as the water treatment aspect that you mentioned in a different post... I don't know what they do at the site(s) of their other aquifers, but the ones around here are unlikely to require 'treatment'. I think they just extract it from the ground just as we do w/our wells, and test it evey now and then. Water test kits are quite inexpensive for homeowners, so I imagine it's barely a thought for them.
If the local government benefits at all, I don't see how. Oh, and btw, the locals did have a problem w/this arrangement, but they somehow managed to prevail anyway.