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Zephyrhills Water Loading for Haiti Today
Jan 20, 2010

January 18, 2010
CONTACT: Jim McClellan 850/748-2472
 
Zephyrhills Water Loading for Haiti Today
State Rep. Will Weatherford Arranged for Donation through Florida EOC
 
 
ZEPHYRHILLS, FL – Three semi-trailers of Haiti-bound bottled water will be loaded today at the Zephyrhills Spring Water Company’s bottling facility in Zephyrhills, Florida.  The trucks represent a portion of the $1 million worth of bottled water pledged to the relief effort by Nestlé Waters North America, parent company of Zephyrhills.  The Zephyrhills water will be shipped to the US Navy Base in Jacksonville for delivery to Haiti.  The shipment is being coordinated by the Florida Division of Emergency Management with the assistance of State Representative Will Weatherford, R-Wesley Chapel. 
 
Media are invited to join Rep. Weatherford and see the load out, which is scheduled to begin at:
 
1:30 PM
Zephyrhills Spring Water Company
4330 20th Street
Zephyrhills
 
Nestlé Waters officials also will be available to answer questions about the company’s assistance pledge.  Some 70 truckloads of Nestlé Waters’ products have been delivered or are en route to relief agencies and distribution sites in Florida currently. More will be sent as the distribution systems are able to accept it.
 
Nestlé Waters operates two bottling facilities in Florida, the Zephyrhills Spring Water Plant and the Deer Park facility in Madison County.  The company employs more than 1,100 people throughout the state, in manufacturing, sales and delivery.