That (if true) is a legitimate complaint and Nestle should make them whole.
Edit: as someone else noted, this is less than one swimming pool's worth of water per day. If wells are going dry because of that, they were marginal at best.
That (if true) is a legitimate complaint and Nestle should make them whole.
Edit: as someone else noted, this is less than one swimming pool's worth of water per day. If wells are going dry because of that, they were marginal at best.
We're talking an olympic size swimming pool @660k gals each day, not the backyard type which is probably 1/6 the size [1].
Also rates matter. It's not how much is there, it's the depletion rate - recharge rate (families probably don't use nearly that much per day, so over time it would be many many olympic sized swimming pools).
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic-size_swimming_pool
Wells have specific recovery rates. I don't know whether the amount they're pumping will exceed that rate-- environmental studies should include that information.
Nonsense. Maybe in Phoenix or Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Not in Michigan.
By the way, why are you so passionate about this topic? You’ve made 17 comments on this thread, or 17% of all of the comments here as of this writing. Thst seems extreme to me. The one I’m responding to isn’t substantive, another is just a single word. Dominating a conversation with sheer volume seems extreme, and impolite.
Because I hate innumeracy.
Following that through, you clearly hate being backed into a corner, and don’t mind engaging in “innacuracy” when it suits you.
Where? I'm seeing anecdotes of an average of $100-300 to fill up a pool with a hose, and $1250 to bring a truck in.
When a well draws water, it creates a cone-like depression of the water level around the well (think of all those nifty gravity diagrams of planets). A well which was drilled sufficiently deep to work with existing draws can be made "dry" by getting a new neighbor who draws enough to lower the aquifer below their well head.
Those wells can be made to work again, but only by having a company come in and make the well (perhaps significantly) deeper.
An search on "aquifer drawdown" will provide a lot of reference material.