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Volvic, Vittel, Perrier ... The battle to save the great mineral water sources

2021-06-30T16:59:59.808Z


SURVEY - Danone and Nestlé, the two global giants of bottled water, are facing a depletion of their precious liquids. Preserving their resources is, for them, both an environmental and an economic issue.


Special envoy to Volvic (Puy-de-Dôme)

The volume of water on the planet has not changed for 2 million years.

If we do nothing, we will be at the end of our resources by 2050.

By announcing on Tuesday morning an investment of 120 million Swiss francs (110 million euros) by 2025 on a hundred projects for the management of its water sources around the world, Cédric Egger, the “Mr.

Water ”from Nestlé, did not minimize the urgency.

Between global warming, population growth and the development of the bottled water market, the challenge of preserving water resources does not end.

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While the Swiss giant of bottled water (Vittel, Perrier, Contrex, Hépar…) has been fighting for ten years against the deficit of one of the groundwater tables in Vittel, it has set itself an ambitious objective.

Be "water neutral" then "water positive" by 2025. In short, "

make nature retain more water than Nestlé takes in the course of its activities",

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Source: lefigaro

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