This is almost as good as my local government telling me that I can only water my grass by spraying it with a hand-held hose.
Nestle came into Florida and managed to pull off quite the coup.
The company got a permit to take water belonging to Floridians — hundreds of millions of gallons a year from a spring in a state park — at no cost to Nestle.
No taxes. No fees. Just a $230 permit to pump water until 2018.
Nestle bottles that water, ships it throughout the Southeast — much of it to Georgia and the Carolinas — and makes millions upon millions of dollars in profits on it.
::Whole Story ;;via Boing Boing
It’s amazing to watch who benefits during crisis.