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| Drought
prompts Madison County to review water usage Madison's drought index presently stands at 559. It is not looking good right now." |
Concern
Flows over Shipping Water out of Madison County Madison County citizens have been calling to voice continued concern on the water companies buying up both land and the water and what effect this commercial bottling may have on Madison’s continued water supply. |
| Madison
County receives $20,000 Grant from (Nestle) Zephyrhills Meg Andronaco, with Zephyrhills Spring Water Bottling Company, addressed the Madison Board of County Commissioners on June 5 to offer a $20,000 Grant to the County as a token of thanks. The County recently approved Zephyrhills to use Blue Springs acquifer as a source to bottle spring water. |
Bottled
Water May Not Be Your Best Bet Over half of Americans drink bottled water, spending 240-10,000 times more per gallon for bottled water than they do for tap water. Of 103 brands of bottled water sent to be tested at certified water-testing laboratories, one quarter of the samples contained chemical or microbiologic contaminants, including toluene, phthalates, and nitrates. Other statistically significant contaminants include arsenic, and coliform bacteria... |
| Primed
for success For three years, the worst drought in half a century has wilted crops and drained lakes, turned forests into tinder and threatened the water supply for millions of residents. It also brought a deal worth $1.9-million to a water-pump company owned by Gov. Jeb Bush's former business partner. |
Water
Deal Puts Larger Tap On Crystal Springs Tanker trucks carrying thousands of gallons of well water are rumbling from Dade City to Crystal Springs and dumping it into the headwaters of the Hillsborough River. |
| Victory in Florida | Perrier: Plant would be safe |
| Florida residents taking on Perrier over tapping their springs |
Crystal
Springs Has Murky Past |
| Rancher
cited for letting too much water be taken It's another struggle for Robert Thomas, who wants to allow Zephyrhills Spring Water Co. to increase daily withdrawals from springs on his property. |
As
bottled water sales rise, so does opposition to plants Bottled water companies are facing some opposition in communities across the nation that fear local wells, wetlands and streams are being drained dry in the pursuit of corporate profits. |
| Perrier
Thirsts For A New Spring In a city of 8,000, the biggest employer in town can often have its way with one threat: Give us what we need ... If Perrier wasn't allowed a ninefold increase in the amount of water it draws from nearby Crystal Springs, Bownds said in March, "Our alternative is to put a bottled water facility in Georgia or Alabama." The company already has been looking, and not just out of state. |
Leaders
Hunt, Dine with Landowner When Robert M. Thomas negotiates million-dollar deals with government leaders to pump water from Crystal Springs, he isn't working with strangers. Some of the officials Thomas must persuade have been his guests at exclusive dove hunts in Hernando County, held for years by the third-generation cattle rancher. |
| Mayor
Gives Boost To Springs Owner Mayor Dick Greco wants to find a way to let a longtime Tampa family sell substantially more water to the bottled water company Perrier, a prospect his own staff has said might cost the city as much as $7-million. |
Not
As Green As It Sounds What's not to like about the Hillsborough River Greenways Task Force? For one, the group is not the pure assemblage of tree-huggers its name might suggest. Environmental regulators need to view the group more critically, especially given the private interests it brings to bear on public decisions affecting water rights and preservation... |
| Spring
Owner Withholds Study An environmental group met Tuesday for its first look at a yearlong study of Crystal Springs but didn't get even a glimpse of it. Rancher Robert Thomas ... said he wasn't ready to share it. |
Perrier
Study Favors Its Pumping Goals It may seem like a lot, but the Perrier company said Wednesday that taking as much as 2.6-million gallons of water a day from Crystal Springs would be like sipping a drop out of a bucket. |
| Just
A Warm, Fuzzy, Social Dove Kill October 30, 1997 |
EPA
cleanup lambasted by Tarpon resolution The phosphorus-processing plant opened at the site in 1947 and closed in 1981 after officials found high levels of arsenic, lead and radium-226, as well as contaminants known to cause lung cancer ... the EPA "failed to secure and implement a safe and effective plan for remediation" of the site. |
| Phosphate
mining legacy feared The Florida phosphate industry figured prominently in the national media last week. And was, I am sure, not at all pleased to be the subject of so much attention - none of it favorable. |
Gaseous
Fluoride Emissions from Gypsum Settling and Cooling Ponds Sixty percent or more of the total plant release of hydrogen fluoride is due to the ponds. Fluoride is dispersed throughout Central Florida and may be an environmental hazard to adjacent agricultural industry. |
|
Residents Show Water Company Their Anger March 13, 1997 |
Preserving Spring Water For A Profit July 22, 1997 |
| "Smell
of dead fish punctuates water pumping debate" April 15, 1997 |
State
searching old maps to see if springs navigable Sept. 25, 1997 |
| Almost
all are welcome to join us February 2, 1998 |
Wells
Drying Up In Town Known For Its Water January 23, 1998 |
| Proposed
Aquifer Storage & Recovery Bill Threatens Florida's Drinking Water
Supplies In a dramatic move to weaken protection of Florida's drinking water, state and local government and private consultants specializing in underground injection are proposing to increase contamination of underground drinking water supplies through Aquifer Storage Recovery wells, a form of Class V (shallow) injection wells. |
Rules
would allow seepage of treated sewage Environmentalists said the change would legalize the contamination of a critical resource that may be needed for drinking water by future generations. They added that it would open the door to ground water pollution from industrial-waste deep wells. |
| PERRIER HAS TO STUDY INCREASED WATER WITHDRAWAL'S EFFECTS ON AQUATIC LIFE | PA OFFICIAL CRITICIZES PERRIER |
| PERRIER TO COLLECT MORE WATER | WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE WELL GOES DRY? |
| PERRIER SAYS IT TOOK TOO MUCH WATER | An
Open Letter from the Green Valleys Assoc. Re: Perrier/Great Spring Waters of America, Inc. Application No. A. 1597501 |
| Deal
To Fix Pollution System Keeps Phosphate Plant Open...for now One of Hillsborough County's oldest phosphate processing plants is facing a possible shutdown over air pollution violations. |
Bottler
says it would not harm spring The chief concern, which is loudly echoed by environmentalists, is that a bottling operation would intercept water from the warm springs that are vital for manatees during the winter. |
| Water
Rush Is On - Bottlers Grabbing Up Land Bottling companies are trying to buy up all this property above the underground river to keep out competitors. The fear of North Florida water being pumped and shipped to South Florida is now a reality! |
Springs
activist's fight stirs magazine's interest |
|
The
Town that Refused to Die |
State
environmental officials say they're going to permit a company
guilty of grand theft and racketeering |
| State
hopes to dump radioactive waste in gulf Hoping to avert a land based environmental catastrophe, state officials want to take the unprecedented step of removing millions of gallons of polluted water from an aging phosphate plant and dumping it into the Gulf of Mexico. The dumping could begin as close as 50 miles off St. Pete Beach, a top official of Gov. Jeb Bush's administration told state legislators on Friday. |
Official
Urges Coronet Probe |
|
Coronet
Warning Ignored |
Offer
of Free Land for USF Holds Uncertain Extra Costs |
| The Bigger Picture |
| Deceptive
Advertising Crystal Geyser Natural Alpine Spring Water was depicted as "nature's perfect beverage" which "begins as the pure snow and rain that falls on 12,000-foot Olancha Peak in the towering Sierra. In response to such extravagant advertising, the North Carolina Agriculture Department in ordered Crystal Geyser and seven other bottled waters, including the popular Naya and Poland Springs brands, taken from store shelves in the state. The agency claimed "false and deceptive labeling" saying companies actually drilled underground wells to pump water to the surface for bottling. |
Dead
in the Water: Enron's grab for Florida's water was factor in collapse While Jeb Bush was running for Florida's governor in the summer of 1998, Enron Corp., a fast-growing Houston energy broker, was diversifying into a potentially lucrative new field — privatization of water supplies. "The simple math is that there are a handful of states large enough population-wise and needy enough water-wise so that we could focus our energy there," said former Azurix managing director Chris Wasden. |
| Enron
subsidiary Azurix's failed attempt at Florida's water rights sends
warning message Little did most of us know that when Enron collapsed, it was due in large measure to an ill-fated campaign for control of Florida's drinking water. |
Phosphate
plants under close eye It's not like you can padlock the doors and walk away. Ponds full of 1.5 billion gallons of acid and three mountains of radioactive waste mean you just can't shut off the machinery and turn out the lights. |
| Uranium
levels in various soils Toxicological Profile for Uranium (Draft) US Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) September 1997, p. 255. |
V
Is Not for Victory Vivendi Universal (NYSE: V) had ambitious global intentions once, but now its struggling conglomerate is under water. With big bets leading to even bigger debts, the French company that grew to become the world's third-largest media empire is now in a cash crunch. |
| S.1961
"Water Investment Act of 2002" Growing water scarcity is creating an unprecedented "market value" for water. This has resulted in large transnational water companies targeting the municipally run water systems for take over. As an article in Fortune magazine recently stated, water is "the oil of the 21st century. Water is being characterized this way because of the potential for high profits. |
Credibility
Meltdown For nuke boosters, the stricken reactor near Toledo has become an endless fount of devastating news. The latest involves a series of newly discovered cracks in the crucial metal lining that may have barely prevented the permanent contamination of Lake Erie and much of northern Ohio. |
|
Your
Bottled Water May Not Be What You Think |
Bottled
Water: Pure Drink or Pure Hype? This is the online version of NRDC's March 1999 petition to the FDA and attached report on the results of our four-year study of the bottled water industry, including its bacterial and chemical contamination problems. The petition and report find major gaps in bottled water regulation and conclude that bottled water is not necessarily safer than tap water. |
| Eau,
Neau! Ever wonder what's in those little bottles of water you pick up at the health club or those gallon jugs you lug home from the supermarket? |
Few
Fined for Polluting Water About a quarter of the nation's largest industrial plants and water treatment facilities are in serious violation of pollution standards at any one time, yet only a fraction of them face formal enforcement actions, according to an Environmental Protection Agency internal study. |
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