"Google is one of the largest and most profitable multinational corporations in the world. It wants to draw perhaps up to a million gallons of water daily from our city to cool their behemoth complex. I say perhaps because we don’t really know because they haven’t made public their plans. And they want to do this during a historic drought. A drought over three and a half years old which the Department of Natural Resources has labeled the longest in Iowa since the 1950s."
https://www.thegazette.com/letters-to-the-editor/first-google-wanted-a-tax-break-now-they-want-our-water/
Gerry McGovern /
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