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This is Eileen Wray-McCann for Circle of Blue. And this is What’s Up with Water, your “need-to-know news” of the world’s water, made possible by support from people like you.
In Southeast Asia, the Mekong River Commission said that water levels in the Mekong have fallen because Chinese dams upstream are limiting outflows. The river turned blue along the Thai-Laos border. That color shift signals shallow water that is affecting fish migration, farming, and barge transport. The river flow is also lessened because of reduced rainfall and water held in other dams on the Lower Mekong. Reuters reports that the river commission called for China to share its water release plans so that downstream countries could prepare for changes in the Mekong. China agreed last year to share reservoir and rainfall data with its neighbors.
Posted by Jan Wondra | Feb 20, 2021
There is no shortage of controversy surrounding the Thursday, Jan. 18 news that private equity investment firms One Rock Capital Partners, LLC (One Rock) and Metropoulos & Co. have entered into an agreement to purchase Nestlé Waters North America (Nestlé NA).
The company is in the midst of a 1041 permit renewal review with Chaffee County for its Ruby Spring asset.The 1041 regulations allow local governments to identify, designate, and regulate areas and activities of state interest through a local permitting process.
Nestlé bottling plant in California. Image USA Today
While the county issued a statement that it had received word of the purchase agreement along with the rest of the world via a national news announcement from Nestlé Waters North America public relations representative Catherine Herter Ervin has assured