Debate Continues Over Proposed Nestlé Bottling Plant

The debate over a proposed Nestlé bottling plant in the Columbia Gorge town of Cascade Locks continues to escalate.  The city is three weeks away from the results on Measure 14-55, which would ban producing and exporting more than one-thousand gallons of bottled water per day in Hood River County.  If the measure passes, Aurora del Val with the Local Water Alliance in Cascade Locks says other cities could follow their lead by also banning large water-bottling operations.

"We don't want to set the precedent of being a bottled-water export county, but we do want to set the precedent for communities around the country."

At issue, she says, are the potential effects a large bottling facility could have on the town's water supply.

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