EcoWatch: Nestlé is planning to open a bottled water plant in Phoenix. Yes, drought-stricken Phoenix, Arizona.
According to the Associated Press, Nestlé Waters will treat the city`s tap water and bottle it under its Pure Life brand. The plan is to extract about 35 million gallons of water in its first year to produce 264 million half-liter bottles.
The city`s water services department insists there`s enough water to spare, even though Arizona is in the midst of a historic drought. As Bloomberg writes:…