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Employer. this is an economy suffering, 18 percent unemployment in this town of 1300 residents, they just lost a plywood mill, they've been devastated by the loss of timber jobs, kids have to be butted 25 miles to the nearest high school because their high school had to be closed down. it would bring in a million dollars in year in taxes alone. the spring that nestle would tap is on state land, making it public water, and environmentalists want that water to remain public, but city leaders see it as a chance to turn a struggling economy around. >> we have just been losing for so long, that i t...

Seen a public service campaign, the ads are out there, bring back the water, fighting nestle and other companies, every place they go, they say it's bad for the planet, uses too much water, only a quarter of bottles are recycled, it takes oil to make the bottles and they last forever. they say look, we're a healthy alternative to sugar y drinks and aren't harmful to the environment, there's plenty of water out there. sales are down, 8 billion gallons of bottled water were sold in the u.s., that's slightly down and environmental is say their message is sinking in. gregg? gregg: dan springer, li...

No such luck for small to medium-sized businesses, companies with assets of 50, to 100 million saw the audioo audit rate drop 1 percent, something to think about as tax day approaches. gregg: fox news is on the job hunt, of course, and in cascade, oregon, nestle is looking to build a wart bottling plant, bringing much needed jobs to the area. wait a minute. environmentalists are putting up a fight there. dan spring ser covering it, he joins us from our seattle bureau. what kind of an impact, dan, an economic comact, would a water bottling plant have in cas calade lox? >> yeah, gregg, it would ...

This country just get thrown away gregg: while they lack jobs, they do not lack for water in cascade lox, it rains 80 inches per year, sometimes up to 100 inches a year, that spring, gregg, produces about 8000 gallons per minute at its peak in the spring. nestle wants about 224 of those gallons per minute. gregg: we heard the comment about plastics, but dan, would this plant cause any specific known harm to the environment there? >> reporter: well, the state is studying that right now because the water as i said is state water and it's currently being used to keep a fish hatchery going and in ...