";s:4:"text";s:5109:""The company reported piping 139 acre-feet — or 45 million gallons — of water from the springs and slopes of the popular national forest last year as part of its Arrowhead brand operations. Nestlé: don’t bottle Nigerians’ water in a catastrophic water crisis! This loss of forest was caused by smallholder agriculture.We unlock the power of food to enhance quality of life for everyone, today and for generations to comeLearn about Nestlé’s brands and what we’re doing to make our products tastier and healthier.Nestlé's Cocoa Plan Manager Darrell High said: "A sustainable production of cocoa that benefits local communities, the environment and the economic development of the country is possible. Initial studies found no federally endangered species on site, and varying degrees of risk or benefit to others.Nestlé said in an email that the company was following the guidance prescribed under the management plan it initially drafted, which it said it did in accordance with forest policies.
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This includes products as well as a number of different water brands. The results could also be kept private, based on proprietary claims by the company, although they will be shared with officials. "The watershed is currently "impaired" according to earlier studies validated by federal officials.But the new management plan doesn't require all of Strawberry Creek to be restored to natural, free-flowing levels, only to a "functioning at risk" rating.Nestlé must also conduct paired surveys of a naturally flowing water basin and the Strawberry Creek basin from which it takes water. From 1960 to 2015, the area of its forests decreased from 16 million to 3.5 million hectares.