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Darn. I wanted to comment on the story regarding Nestle and their water position. http://www.worldcrunch.com/poisoning-well-nestl-accused-exploiting-water-supplies-bottled-brands/business-finance/poisoning-the-well-nestl-accused-of-exploiting-water-supplies-for-bottled-brands/c2s4503/#.UyxZXV7vY7B
I recently was encouraged to make a purchase of Texas real estate in lieu of a 1031 like-kind exchange and considered a property that had a well that could produce some 500 gallons per minute due to an underground “river”. Since the property was only in the 100-acre category, this relatively small size of the property did not warrant use for irrigation so there had been considerable research into selling the water to the “bottled water industry”. Several companies were interested; however, I could not justify the purchase of the property once I found out what the industry required done to the water. This well produced fairly high ph water, very basic, that is very healthy for people. The bottlers were then required to acidify the water and process it to the point of taking out all the natural minerals there, adding what was considered acceptable, and then selling this water to the public. I was pretty astounded. All this “spring water”, natural whatever water, is all hogwash.
A post about what really is in bottled water would most undoubtedly open the eyes of quite a few Solari subscribers. I know it did mine.