Posted on 28/03/08
BATTLE OF THE BOTTLE
For evidence of bottled water's sudden need for an image makeover, look no further than Aberfoyle. Last year, 6,000 residents of Ontario's Wellington County reared up and slapped the Swiss food giant Nestlé, which wanted to renew the water-taking licence of its bottling plant in Aberfoyle and to apply for a rezoning to expand an adjacent warehouse. Yet when Nestlé's licence had last come up for renewal two years earlier, only two people objected--even though Nestlé had more than tripled the amount of water it was taking.
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