Coca-Cola Sucks Wells Dry in Chiapas, Forcing Residents to Buy Water

 The water is disappearing in San Felipe Ecatepec, an Indigenous town three miles outside of San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, in southern Mexico.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/41916-coca-cola-sucks-wells-dry-in-chiapas-forcing-residents-to-buy-water

Nestlé Makes Billions Bottling Water It Pays Nearly Nothing For

 The company’s operation in Michigan reveals how it’s dominated the industry by going into economically depressed areas with lax water laws.


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-09-21/nestl-makes-billions-bottling-water-it-pays-nearly-nothing-for

DNRC faces tough questions at bottling-plant hearing

The Montana Artesian Water Company’s plan to bottle Creston’s groundwater drew fresh scrutiny Tuesday morning.

http://www.dailyinterlake.com/article/20170919/ARTICLE/170919814

County asked to set election or approve expansion

 The leaders of an effort to expand a zoning district east of Kalispell to include land where a water-bottling plant is planned have asked the Flathead County commissioners to set a Nov. 7 election for a ballot issue on the district expansion. A second option, their attorney suggested, is for the commissioners to reconsider their earlier vote and approve the Egan Slough Zoning District expansion.

 Read More at link below


http://www.dailyinterlake.com/article/20170719/ARTICLE/170719874

Voters to decide zoning proposal’s fate

We can vote to zone out...

Flathead County voters will decide whether to expand a zoning district in an agricultural area near Creston, after a petition secured enough signatures by Tuesday to place the question on a future county-wide election ballot.

The proposal is identical to one that was unanimously struck down by the Flathead County commissioners last year, and is being advanced by a group of landowners and volunteers concerned with the potential impacts of a planned water-bottling plant that would fall within the boundaries of the proposed Egan Slough Zoning District expansion.


http://www.dailyinterlake.com/article/20170629/ARTICLE/170629824

How Ontario Canada handles their water bottlers

The Ontario government has made it official by announcing fees for bottlers of water will jump from $3.71 for a million litres of groundwater taken to $503.71 per million litres, later this summer.

“This increased fee, along with the other measures we’ve taken, will help increase groundwater protection and scientific understanding of how to best manage this vital resource,” Environment and Climate Change Minister Glen Murray said in a statement Thursday.

 Read more....

https://www.thestar.com/news/queenspark/2017/06/08/fees-for-bottlers-of-water-jump-from-371-to-50371.html

Tell Michigan's DEQ To Oppose Nestlé's Water Grab

This kind of stuff is everywhere... Without an adequate environmental review!

http://action.storyofstuff.org/letter/Michigan_DEQ-letter_Nestle/?utm_source=michigan-update-final-comment&utm_medium=email&t=1&akid=6532.852816.Mkk5ay

Fight Over Mt. Shasta Water Bottling Plant Gets Political

 Residents near Mt. Shasta concerned about a water bottling plant launched a ballot initiative to tighten bottling rules, but were defeated. Now, one claims the other side used an astroturf campaign and violated campaign finance rules.

https://www.newsdeeply.com/water/articles/2017/03/15/fight-over-mt-shasta-water-bottling-plant-gets-political

The grassroots group Water for Flathead’s Future (who oppose the proposed bottling plant in Creston) is sponsoring three benefit screenings of the award-winning documentary “Tapped” this week in locations across the valley:

The following link by Catherine Haug (of the Essential Stuff Project)

 
http://essentialstuff.org/index.php/2017/03/19/Cat/event-3-flathead-showings-documentary-tapped-mar-2017/

Water Torture, Really?

As adjoining landowners, my neighbors and I have been living an absolute nightmare because of Weaver's water-bottling plant application

By Steve Harvey // Mar 8, 2017 // Guest Column, Opinion

http://flatheadbeacon.com/2017/03/08/water-torture-really/

Bigfork Senator Seeks Mandatory Studies for Water-Bottling Plants

Sen. Bob Keenan introduces bill that would require environmental impact studies, other rules for proposed bottling facilities.

http://flatheadbeacon.com/2017/03/07/bigfork-senator-seeks-mandatory-studies-water-bottling-plants/ 

Bottled water overtakes soda as America’s No. 1 drink — and you should avoid both

 Bottled water is not without chemicals, according to studies of European bottled waters carried out in Germany, Switzerland, Italy and France — one published in 2011 and the other in 2013 — by the Goethe University Frankfurt’s Department of Aquatic Ecotoxicology. Among the main compounds Wagner found: Endocrine disrupting chemicals, or EDCs, which can act like hormones in the body and have been linked to diabetes, breast cancer and cardiovascular disease. (The International Bottled Water Association said the origin of these EDCs may have been environmental rather than from a packaging material.) (Not so)

 

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/bottled-water-overtakes-soda-as-americas-no-1-drink-why-you-should-avoid-both-2017-03-10?siteid=yhoof2&yptr=

 

 See also...

Chemical used to replace BPA in plastic accelerates embryonic development, disrupts reproductive system

 

http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/chemical-used-to-replace-bpa-in-plastic-accelerates-embryonic-development-disrupts-reproductive-system

 

 

Bottling plant debated in Helena March 08, 2017 at 8:04 pm | By SAM WILSON Daily Inter Lake

About a dozen Flathead residents opposed to a controversial water-bottling plant proposed in Creston testified in the Montana State Capitol Wednesday afternoon, lending their support to legislation that would subject the facility to an additional environmental review before it can be approved.

 http://www.dailyinterlake.com/article/20170308/ARTICLE/170309876

Senate Bill 215 info

 Senate Bill 215 info

 Senate Bill 215 has been proposed by Bob Keenan of Bigfork, Montana to better ensure that large industrial scale water bottling plants in the state undergo a more thorough and comprehensive review to consider all potential impacts from such facilities prior to permitting. 

Link below


http://myemail.constantcontact.com/Alert--Support-SB215--This-Bill-Establishes-for-a-More-Thorough---Comprehensive-Review---Permitting-Process-for-Water-Bottling-P.html?soid=1101044546896&aid=M8z0k0jMNZY

Protestors Rally Against Proposed Creston Water Bottle Plant

More than 100 people gathered in downtown Kalispell!

http://flatheadbeacon.com/2017/02/21/protestors-rally-proposed-creston-water-bottle-plant/

People protest Creston water bottling plant

KALISPELL -
Folks from around the Flathead Valley gathered in Depot Park today February 21 in Kalispell to protest the Creston water bottling plant.
Read more...

 
http://www.abcfoxmontana.com/story/34563385/people-protest-creston-water-bottling-plant

Water bottling plant critics take fight to Capitol

 Legislation introduced to the Montana Senate on Tuesday would place a new requirement before the controversial proposal to build a water bottling facility in Creston — one of several methods local citizens are employing in an attempt to halt the project.

Read more at link below...

http://www.dailyinterlake.com/article/20170207/ARTICLE/170209893

Water bottling plant raises numerous concerns

My name is Jerry Williams and I live in Columbia Falls. Last night I attended a meeting at Flathead High School conducted by Water for Flathead’s Future in opposition to the water bottling plant proposed in the Creston area.

I am both angry and incensed that our county commissioners, the DNRC, and DEQ have allowed this proposed bottling plant to get this far along without a single environmental impact study. Not only does it appear each agency rubber-stamped the application and allowed Montana Artesian Water Company to get initial approval of the application, but also the issue raises questions of integrity on the part of these elected and appointed agencies. The following issues are very disturbing to not only the people living in the Creston area, but also to all citizens in the Flathead Valley:

Read more:

http://www.dailyinterlake.com/article/20170212/ARTICLE/170219959

Water-bottling plant puts risk on neighbors

In my opinion, if the Montana Artesian Water Company is allowed to commence operations, many wells on the inter-connected shallow, intermediate and deep aquifers will eventually go dry. 

http://www.dailyinterlake.com/article/20170205/ARTICLE/170209923

Battle Over Creston Water-Bottling Plant Continues

Local group forms to stop Montana Artesian Water Co. from starting production.

 "Water for Flathead’s Future, formed last spring, held the event to introduce their cause to the wider Flathead Valley. Chairperson Deirdre Coit introduced the group’s declared mission, which is to advocate for the “sustainable use of our surface and underground water resources” for all."

http://flatheadbeacon.com/2017/02/03/battle-creston-water-bottling-plant-continues/

Opposition to proposed Creston water bottling plant continues

 KALISPELL -
Opponents of a controversial water bottling plant being proposed in Creston hosted a Wednesday evening meeting tonight to rally support and update the community on where they are at in their push to stop the plans.

http://www.kpax.com/story/34410529/opposition-to-proposed-creston-water-bottling-plant-continues

Proposed bottling plant focus of water-group meeting

January 30, 2017 at 6:55 pm | By LYNNETTE HINTZE Daily Inter Lake
Nice front page article!
 
http://www.dailyinterlake.com/article/20170130/ARTICLE/170139993

Meeting planned on hotly debated Creston water bottling plant

KPAX TV Story

CRESTON -
A valley-wide community meeting is scheduled for next week to address concerns about a proposed water bottling plant in Creston

Local resident Lew Weaver is proposing plans to produce nearly 200-million gallons of bottled groundwater per year from the banks of the Flathead River.
Water for Flathead's Future is a grassroots organization opposing the plans for Weaver's Montana Artesian Water Company.

Nice Video!

http://www.kpax.com/story/34370059/meeting-planned-on-

Bottled water proposal collides with opposition in California community

A proposal to sell water for bottling stirs anger among residents in the San Bernardino Mountains. (Jan. 27, 2017) Richard Lui/The Desert Sun

 
http://www.desertsun.com/story/news/environment/2017/01/27/bottled-water-proposal-collides-opposition-california-community/97158412/

Water For Flathead's Future will be sponsoring a public meeting concerning the proposed bottling plant at the Flathead high school 1 Feb 2017 at 7:00 pm. 

 

 See their web page below for more information.

 

http://www.waterforflatheadsfuture.org/ 

 

Thousands support Ontario government moratorium on new bottled water operations

TORONTO – Ontario will formally impose a two-year moratorium on new or expanded bottled water companies as of Jan. 1, 2017 after thousands of people expressed support for the ban.

 

http://globalnews.ca/news/3100756/wide-support-for-ontario-government-moratorium-on-new-or-expanded-bottled-water-operations/

Daily Interlake

OPINION: Egan Slough vote is warning to all in Flathead

 

" This decision represents a serious failure of representative, inclusive government for the neighborhood, the community, and the Flathead Valley"

January 08, 2017 at 5:00 am | By Richard H. Schaus

http://www.dailyinterlake.com/article/20170108/ARTICLE/170109874/1181