Nestle wants to bottle water from Florida's Ginnie Springs -- for free

[seeker242]

Stop Nestle from bottling water from Florida’s Ginnie Springs Sign the Petition

 

[Schwob]

Source?

Maybe this?
Plastic Pollution

Haven't read it all yet, but one sentence jumped right out at me. Something like "To date more than 1 ton of plastics or synthetic fibers produced for each person on earth"...
I just can't help thinking:
It got to go somewhere over years, decades, centuries...

 

[The Chairman]

It had significantly declined long before that. And they had done concrete work and who knows what else to that spring. Was is really killed by population growth? Maybe.. but it could also have been impacted by other factors.

Hornsby Spring is done, Silver Glen is almost stopped. Many wells are producing brackish water... It's not good. Here's a bit by the Tampa Tribune: Florida's vanishing springs

For more info, I suggest you check out the High Springs based Florida Springs Institute. Some of their blogs are both insightful and inciteful.

I am betting you have a well on your property. Mind if I stop by and take a wizz?

Go for it. I pee right next to my well all the time. While the casing is there, it's not the inlet for their well. That's still far below us.

BTW, during the Suwannee flood we had this past January, those living within a mile of the river had only murky water out of their wells. The pressure of the flood was pushing back against the natural flow. If I get to vote one way or the other, I would vote "No" to Nestle taking even more water out of the aquifer.

 

[The Chairman]

Stop growing grass in yards (golf courses being the bane of us), and water supplies would increase....

Allowing the grass to grow isn't the issue, I don't believe. My 10.82 acre yard is quite awesome, but I don't water or fertilize it. I do keep it mowed,

 

[RyanT]

Allowing the grass to grow isn't the issue, I don't believe.

Eliminating lawns/greens won't solve all our problems, but it is one issue.

Water-Thirsty Golf Courses Need to Go Green

 

[rhwestfall]

Eliminating lawns/greens won't solve all our problems, but it is one issue.

seeing population control is too hot a button, it is a simple one of many...

 

[The Chairman]

Eliminating lawns/greens won't solve all our problems, but it is one issue.

Eliminating needless irrigation is the issue: not the grass.

 

[RyanT]

Out of curiosity..... Why are those against bottledd water becasue of the plastic involved concerned. Isnt the US one of if not the lowest plastic polluter on the globe contributing something like .1% or .01% of plastics in the ocean and waterways are form the US.

The United States ranks 20th globally for plastic production (13%) and contributes 1% globally to marine plastic debris. So even though we are far from the top producer, in actual plastic, we are still putting a lot into our oceans.

https://wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/h...and_into_the_ocean.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

 

[RyanT]

Eliminating needless irrigation is the issue: not the grass.

Agreed!

 

[RyanT]

I'm totally with you on a need for data to support efforts to conserve natural resources and the environment. I just hope enough studies have been or will be performed before commercial concerns are awarded more permits.

The hydrology of the Florida aquifer is extremely well studied. For example:

https://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/1807/pdf/pp1807.pdf

Back in the 70s/80s, the state set limits on aquifer outputs to help ensure their protection. Like a lot of things though, these limits get amended or exceptions are granted.