Nestle Wants New Permit to Pump, Bottle Upper Arkansas River Valley Water

The world’s largest food and beverage company wants a new 10-year permit to pump 200 gallons of groundwater a minute from the Upper Arkansas River Valley and truck it to Denver for bottling. Nestlé’s plan has drawn sharp criticism from Chaffee County locals. (This is edited, with permission, from the Colorado Sun’s podcast, the Daily Sun-Up with host Jeremiah Jacques.)