Nestle to Begin Draining Millions of Gallons of Arkansas River water

Colorado Independent ^ | 6/16/10 | SCOT KERSGAARD

[LadyPilgrim]

No Nestle water for me.

[taxcontrol]

I dont have a problem with this.

[bgill]

I can turn on my own tap for free.

[PGR88]

Why are people so upset? No one buys water - we only rent it.

[ladyvet]

I used to live there. It was a wonderful, sleepy, mining and railroad town. Then the left moved in....’nuff said.

[Star Traveler]

Ummm... the Arkansas River is low enough, at times, around here in Tulsa, already. If they take any more out of it, hoo-boy! ... we’re not liable to have a river here ... :-)

[Sacajaweau]

It’s paying a buck a bottle that gets me. It’s nuts up here in NYS...we’ve got great water sources.

[ikka]

Surely the commissioners could have pushed for a bottling plant to be built, in the county?

I don't get the math - $160K a year for some 65 million gallons?

[aft_lizard]

I would be upset but since the building of the John Martin Dam in Colorado Kansas up to about roughly Barton County rarely sees water anymore.

[Eagles6]

If, as a kid, you had told your Grandparents that you were going to fill bottles with tap water and sell them for more than gasoline they would have taken the belt to you, taken away your radio and made you study extra hard to get rid of those ridiculous ideas.

At my last job folks would buy Starbucks coffee for $4 when there was excellent coffee for free, spend $1.25 for a 16 oz bottle of Aquafina when Polar Water was free, spend $7 for lunch at the cafeteria and then complain that gas was $2.50 a gallon.

I'm sure that it's fairly common.

[KarlInOhio]

I don't get the math - $160K a year for some 65 million gallon

The last time I checked my water bill I paid an incremental cost of about 0.6¢ per gallon for water and sewer. A little more than half was for the sewer, so let's say it's 0.25¢ per gallon for water alone. For 65 million gallons it would be $162,500. Pretty darn close to my retail price and I could probably get it cheaper if I negotiated for a bulk discount.

[padre35]

I simply must chuckle over the fact people are paying for what amounts to tap water from hundreds of miles away.

Are people really this vapid?

[ntmxx]

What no 10 year study over some bacterial critter….friends of government” getting their cut; and screw everyone else.

[Mr. Lucky]

Aw, jeez.

According to the USGS, the mean daily discharge of the Arkansas River near Nathrop, Colorado, is about 16,500 gallons per second in June. Yeah, let's deny those 15 people jobs because a bunch of silk stocking yuppies are too lazy to do math.

[KarlInOhio]

I simply must chuckle over the fact people are paying for what amounts to tap water from hundreds of miles away.

At work we get 5 gallon bottles of water from the same town I grew up in. I know it was filtered and softened before bottling because it was crunchy hard when it comes out of the well. It built strong bones - in you guts, your tub, your water pipes, your water heater, ...

[Tennessee Nana]

Arrowhead Springs water bottles
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OK No thanks...

[navysealdad]

Got plenty of Arkansas River water here..

[xrmusn]

Are people really this vapid?
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[Hoosier Catholic Momma]

I think I’m going to run to downtown Fort Smith, scoop me up some of that river water and make a killing :)