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Commentary: Let’s make smart decisions regarding the commercial use of Sacramento’s water

Posted by: Maven on October 27, 2009 at 12:37 pm

From the Sacramento Press, this commentary by Sacramento city councilman Kevin McCarty:

“With California in its third year of drought, the City of Sacramento’s water conservation strategy includes busting people who flood sidewalks.

Since June, we’ve been telling residents they can water landscaping on only three specific days per week and there is to be no watering between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.

Last year, the City Council decided to ban bottled water at its meetings. We did so in recognition that plastic water bottles are littering the world and the precious water they once contained is often wasted.

That’s why I was surprised to learn that the Nestle Waters North America Co. is moving forward with plans for a water bottling plant in my council district at the Florin/Fruitridge Industrial Park – a plant with the potential to intake more than 81 million gallons of city water yearly. Another 20 million gallons would be trucked in to the plant from springs in El Dorado, Placer, Tuolumne and Napa Counties. …”

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October 27, 2009 · Filed Under Drinking Water & Bottled Water

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