News & Fun in Michigan
Nestle, a company based in Switzerland, can already suck and export up to 250 gallons a minute from a well in Evart, Michigan. Now it wants a new permit that would allow the company to pump 400 gallons of water each minute of the day.
Nestle’s operations in Michigan allow the Swiss company to pump and sell millions of gallons of fresh water from aquafers for only $200 a year.
In 2016 thre were calls to then Michigan Governor Rick Snyder, to ask Nestle for assistance in bringing bottled water to Flint Michigan.
Flint’s poor and black residents do not have access to safe drinking water due to lead contamination.
