Kunkletown Residents Express Water Concerns

AlterNet: A Pennsylvania Town Fights Predatory Water Extraction--"In the permit application that Nestlé Waters filed with the Township, it states the company is proposing to drill two large wells, pump 200,000 gallons of water per day from the aquifer, put it in trucks and transfer it to an existing bottling facility near Allentown, about 20 miles away. It expects 60 truck trips through the town per day."
I remember a time water was plentiful, almost free and relatively worthless. I never imagined the day "Global Water Resources" would be traded on the market. Nor the future value of water investments could be worth $500b to investors.

There's are some things that never should be allowed. In such the way federal government sets aside national parks so should it with water.

If this continues I can envision one day a home owner having to pay for the rights to use his/her own well water if were using a company owned aquifer beneath. A time, in the not too distant future, when we shall have to buy our water from private for-profit utility companies much like we do with our heat and electricity today. A time which water is no longer considered a local government's obligation to provide.

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