Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation's landmark suit against Nestle Waters North America has ended in a court order to halt all spring water withdrawals from a site in Mecosta County, Michigan.
After mass resistance in Wisconsin forced Ice Mountain out of that state, they set up a bottling plant in Michigan. The fight against water privatization has been led by two organizations, Sweetwater Alliance, a state-wide, grassroots, group "dedicated to the liberation of essential resources from corporate control," and Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation, which spearheaded the trial against Ice Mountain.
Judge Lawrence Root handed down the order for Nestle to terminate its spring water withdrawals earlier today in a markedly personal 68-page written decision.
"I am holding that Nestle's pumping operations at the Sanctuary Springs must stop entirely," Root wrote. "Further, I am unable to find that a specific pumping rate lower than 400 gallons per minute, or any rate to date, will reduce the effects and impacts to a level that is not harmful."
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[ Summary and Order by Judge Root ]
