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Nestle: Profiting From Free Springs
Karla R.
started this petition to
Ulf Mark Schneider, CEO of Nestle & Dean Metropoulos, Interim CEO of Metropoulos & Co.
Stop Nestle from stealing our Spring Water! Florida's beautiful springs are at risk because of corporate greed. Join our fight and boycott bottled water! Nestle has a permit to extract over 1 million gallons of water a day from Gilchrist County’s Ginnie Springs. Florida’s Suwannee River Water Management District Board approved Nestle’s request to extract water for its bottled waters through a small $115 application fee, an insignificant cost.
Nestle claims that no environmental harm is being done to the springs, but extracting water at such rate is destroying the ecosystem. Decreasing water levels harms any life in the springs, lowers water levels in other sources, such as the Santa Fe River, and destroying its natural beauty.
Gilchrist County residents should not be the only ones to boycott. We are asking anyone who believes in justice to boycott Nestle products. We need to preserve Ginnie Springs and allow residents to enjoy its natural beauty. We all have the power to stop this, but only if we act now.
Nestle claims that no environmental harm is being done to the springs, but extracting water at such rate is destroying the ecosystem. Decreasing water levels harms any life in the springs, lowers water levels in other sources, such as the Santa Fe River, and destroying its natural beauty.
Gilchrist County residents should not be the only ones to boycott. We are asking anyone who believes in justice to boycott Nestle products. We need to preserve Ginnie Springs and allow residents to enjoy its natural beauty. We all have the power to stop this, but only if we act now.
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