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Sacramento Nestle Waters bottling plant draws fire

Posted by: Maven on October 5, 2009 at 6:26 am

From the Sacramento Bee:

“Sacramento banned bottled water from its City Council meetings last year, but over the summer it welcomed a Nestle Waters plant that would churn out millions of those bottles every week.

With California in its third year of drought and Sacramentans facing watering restrictions, Councilman Kevin McCarty thinks the plant needs a closer look.

“It comes at a bizarre time,” said McCarty, whose district includes the project site in the Florin Fruitridge Industrial Park. “Extreme profits are going to be made with Sacramento water as we’re trying to conserve” it.

Nestle’s Northern California expansion started in a more picturesque place. In 2003, the company signed a contract to build a large, spring-fed plant on the flank of Mount Shasta.

But Siskiyou County locals delayed the project on environmental grounds, and early this year the company began to consider a site in south Sacramento, according to Dave Palais, Nestle’s natural resource manager for the region. …”

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October 5, 2009 · Filed Under Drinking Water & Bottled Water, Sacramento

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