Company Bottling Water In Chaffee County Met With Strong Opposition
CBS Denver
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SALIDA, Colo. (CBS4) – Nestle Waters, now known as BlueTrition, will renew its contract to pump water from the Upper Arkansas River Basin for bottled water production. With the historic drought, the agreement has been met with opposition.
“Today we’re just trying to do damage control frankly. We need restorations that don’t allow pumping in a way that’s going to injure our aquifer and more than anything we need to have an environmental professional ecological review. There has not been one done since 2009,” said Angie Thompson, a spokeswoman at the Central Colorado Climate Coalition.