Michigan OKs Nestlé Water Extraction, Despite Public Comments Against It

Re:Michigan OKs Nestlé Water Extraction, Despite Public Comm... by lima on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @05:34PM (#16759374)

Isn't that apples and oranges, comparing the numbers like that? The river is connected to the water table, sure, but surely the issue is more complicated than that?

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Re:Michigan OKs Nestlé Water Extraction, Despite Public Comm... by Turing_Machine on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @05:40PM (#16759431)

I don't see how it could be more complicated. Any groundwater that isn't pumped out and used is going to eventually go down the river, right? Otherwise the area would be underwater.

Yeah, there are places where groundwater enters the aquifer from long distances away. Michigan is not one of those places. It gets plenty of precipitation.

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Re:Michigan OKs Nestlé Water Extraction, Despite Public Comm... by domevent on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @06:26PM (#16759851)

“Eventually” is quite the weasel word in this context. Yes, eventually it will, for values of eventually which may exceed the average human lifespan.

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Re:Michigan OKs Nestlé Water Extraction, Despite Public Comm... by dang on Thursday April 05, 2018 @12:53AM (#16761873)

Please don't break the site guidelines like this, regardless of how nonsensical some other comment is.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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