On 2014-02-25, Sqwertz > wrote:

> And more recently, Nestle's rush to buy up the world's water rights in
> the movie "Bottled Life"

Ha! They jes built a Nestle pumping plant 6 miles up-stream from me.
It's about a 1/4 mile from the Arkansas R and I'm about 50 miles from
where the Ark R begins as a snow trickle. This entire valley is the
Arkansas Headwaters Watershed and is still fairly good water. In
fact, it was recently awarded "gold" status, as a highly productive
trout fishery, but that only after 20 yrs of envrironmental effort to
clean up the once filthy Ark. At the very beginning of the river is
Fremont Pass, once a superfund site for the dirtiest molybdenum mine
in the US.

This part of the Ark is also the most whitewater rafted river in the
country and fortunately, the tourist industry has been able to hold
the insanely polluting nat-gas fracking companies at bay. There's not
a one in this valley. Astonishing, since parts of CO have been
literally reduced to ghost towns by fracking pollution. I should be
OK, unless it stops snowing, like 2 yrs ago and now in CA. 8|

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