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Nestlé takes water from U.S. communities for cheap, bottles and sells it — for billions of dollars in profit — and then dumps the environmental and other costs onto society. In some cases, the company refuses to listen to citizens who don’t want their water taken. For example, in Maine, the town of Shapleigh denied Nestlé permission to take water. However, residents fear that the company, which already removes hundreds of millions of gallons of groundwater from the state each year, may now try to take water from a wildlife preserve. In response to Nestlé’s activities, a campaign is underway to limit water mining statewide.