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DougF post 7
Part of the problem is not everyone is informed as to what is happening in someone else's yard/state,
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I just thought you would like to know about this, (I thought it as a dead isue but I guess not)
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Niagara Bottling Defends Plan To Suck 500,000 Gallons Per Day From Aquifer
LAKE COUNTY, Fla. -- For the first time, the Niagara Bottling is publically defending itself against complaints about its new Lake County plant. The company wants to suck 500,000 gallons of water a day out of the aquifer and bottle it up to sell it.
That same aquifer provides water to 99 percent of Central Florida. A Niagara spokesperson told Eyewitness News on Wednesday that water will stay in the state.
Niagara Bottling has spent $15 million to purchase and re-fit a plant near Groveland. From Lake County, the company will withdraw 177 million gallons of water from the aquifer a year and put it in jugs, at a time when Central Floridians are being told to conserve.
"The state is not running out of drinking water. The aquifer is not going dry," said Niagara spokesperson Honey Rand.
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Niagara Bottling Defends Plan To Suck 500,000 Gallons Per Day From Aquifer - Lake County News Story - WFTV Orlando
But it's OK were not running out of water,
(Bull S**t) some one is lying here, and sence wells are running dry!
But then why should they allow this.
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Is St. Johns River Water Management District even serious about conservation?
To hear local water officials tell it, we're in dire straits.
They don't want you to water your lawn too often, plant certain grass or even use the kind of shower heads that actually get all the conditioner out of your hair.
The St. Johns River Water Management District even has slogans to drive home the point: " Florida's water -- it's worth saving." And, "Our river needs us."
But while the district is busy preaching at you, it's prepared to give a bottled-water company the winning ticket to the Florida Watery: a permit to drain 177 million gallons of groundwater in Lake County each year.
You and your family would have to use low-flow shower heads for 64 years straight to save as much water as this company would take in a single day.
Put another way: 177 million gallons is more than twice as much OUC water as Wet 'n Wild uses in a year.
Conservationists are mincing no words in their objections to Niagara Bottling's plans.
"This is a frivolous use of groundwater," says the Audubon Society's Charles Lee.
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Is St. Johns River Water Management District even serious about conservation? -- OrlandoSentinel.com
is it me? or does it seem like they are just doing whatever they want too and Dam the consequences?
