Congratulations to the residents of Eldred Township in Monroe County for their victory over the Nestle company, which had proposed to withdraw up to 200,000 gallons of water daily from a township spring. The water would have been loaded into tanker trucks and driven to a Nestle bottling plant for processing.
Someday a grad student will write a thesis on how Americans became obsessed with “hydration,” and when we began paying for water that is available free from any kitchen sink.
Really people. Buy a bottle of diet Coke, dump out the contents, and you can fill that plastic bottle with water from your tap. When it is empty, refill it. Total cost, pennies (if that.)
In any case, it is good to see a rural community defeat a billion dollar corporation. Now it is on to the PennEast/UGI pipeline. Eldred Township is an inspiration.
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