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Michigan's Water Wars: Nestle Pumps Millions of Gallons for Free While Flint Pays for Poisoned Water

2016-02-17 17:57:29| Waste Management - Topix.net

As Flint residents are forced to drink, cook with and even bathe in bottled water, while still paying some of the highest water bills in the county for their poisoned water, we turn to a little-known story about the bottled water industry in Michigan. In 2001 and 2002, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality issued permits to NestlA©, the largest water bottling company in the world, to pump up to 400 gallons of water per minute from aquifers that feed Lake Michigan.

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