High waters at Eklutna Lake are seen on Aug. 29, 2023. Anchorage’s water utility and a group of bottled water companies are in a dispute over the bottlers’ access to the utility’s treatment plant near the lake.
That’s where the bottling companies can currently fill their tanker trucks with water that’s been disinfected but not yet chlorinated and fluorinated.saying The utility says that bottled water businesses could still use glacier water from city hydrants — after the utility has fluorinated and chlorinated it. But the businesses — including one existing bottler and multiple companies hoping to bottle in the future — have , saying that the addition of the chemicals would change the water’s taste and damage their sales.
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