The Water Is Already Low At A Florida Freshwater Spring, But Nestlé Wants More Nestlé wants to increase the amount of water it withdraws from Ginnie Springs to nearly 1.2 million gallons a day ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Nestle Waters North America will be able to ramp up bottling to nearly 1 million gallons of water a day from the Ginnie Springs area after a permit was approved Tuesday over ...

A North Florida water district will decide whether Nestle, which already bottles millions of gallons of water from Florida springs, will be able to increase pumping at Jennie Springs.

The fate of one of Florida’s most fragile freshwater springs now is in the hands of the Nestlé company, which intends to drain nearly 1 million gallons a day and sell them back to us in plastic ...

Nestle already bottles water at several other springs in Florida as do other companies. “The amount of flow that we are talking about here,” he said, “comes out to be about a quarter of a ...

Opposition is growing in Florida to a water bottling company that wants to take more than a million gallons of water a day from Ginnie Springs. Environmentalists want limits on the amount taken.

Devil Spring In Ginnie Springs. By Seán Kinane / WMNF News (Nov. 2012). Opponents of the plan to allow a giant corporation to draw more water from Florida’s pristine springs and aquifer suffered a ...

The Florida Springs Institute estimates that groundwater use from the Florida Aquifer increased by more than 400% between 1950 and 2010. Flows in the Santa Fe River and its springs are down about ...

Their “Say NO to Nestle Water Grab Protest” is Friday in High Springs (northwest of Gainesville) beginning at 5:30 p.m. Friday is also the day the region’s water management district should receive ...

The permit, if approved, would allow Nestlé to pump about 1.2 million gallons of water a day from Ginnie Springs. The spring is already classified as impaired, and local environmentalists argue ...

A new permit request for bottlers to take water from Florida's aquifer is a reminder it's time to end this corporate giveaway. Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 66°F.

In Florida, Nestlé is taking heat from environmental groups and others concerned about the future of one of the state's most endangered natural resources — its freshwater springs.