As a camp owner in the Rangeley area, I add my objection to the Nestle/Poland Spring plan to extract water from a nearby site and convey it, using 100 trucks a day, on roads that are already overused.

Consider the financial and ecological costs of packaging and transporting bottled water, and then the outrageous price people pay for it. Consider that much of it is filtered tap-water.

Water is one of life’s necessities and, therefore, a public trust. It should not be treated as a commodity, whereby some get rich at the expense of many around the world who cannot afford the price.

I say, keep Nestle out of Rangeley.

Neal Ferris, Durham, N.H.

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