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WEDNESDAY • 8 FEBRUARY 2023 • ISSUE 829 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY
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ANALYSIS PAGES 6 & 7
Beverage companies extracted
equivalent of 108 million bottles
of free ground water in 6 years
JAMES DEBONO
THE equivalent of 108 million two-litre
bottles was extracted for free from the
ground to be sold again as water or car-
bonated soft drinks by beverage produc-
ers in six years.
Statistics presented in parliament by
Energy Minister Miriam Dalli in reply
to a question by Nationalist MP and
planning spokesperson Stanley Zammit
show that a staggering 216,479 cubic
meters of ground water between 2016
and 2021 which is the equivalent of
nearly 216 million liters.
The information shows that extrac-
tion by beverage producers increased
from just 7,643 cubic meters in 2016 to
72,531 cubic meters in 2019, falling to
36,310 cubic meters in 2021.
Degiorgios
sentenced to 4
years in prison
for money
laundering
5 reasons why
abortion did not
rock Abela's boat
MATTHEW AGIUS
A court has convicted brothers George and
Alfred Degiorgio on charges of money laun-
dering and recidivism, sentencing them to
imprisonment for four years and fining each
of them €25,000.
