Daily Koz - An
investigation by the Desert Sun found that Nestle Waters North
America's permit to transport water across the San Bernardino National
Forest expired in 1988. The water is piped across the national forest
and loaded on trucks to a plant where it is bottled as Arrowhead 100
percent Mountain Spring Water.
Nestlé is the #1 bottle water
producer in the country and own the brands Arrowhead and Pure Life. The
company's response? Don't worry, folks. Nestlé "monitors its water use
and the environment around the springs where water is drawn."
The
California drought has gotten so bad we've been warned there is only a
one-year supply left in the reservoirs. In Sacramento, Nestlé has
recently been under fire from environmental activists, calling the
company's unregulated tapping of California aquifers a "corporate
giveaway":
“The coalition is protesting Nestlé’s virtually
unlimited use of water – up to 80 million gallons a year drawn from
local aquifers – while Sacramentans (like other Californians) who use a
mere 7 to 10 percent of total water used in the State of California,
have had severe restrictions and limitations forced upon them,”
according to the coalition.
“Nestlé pays only 65 cents for each
470 gallons it pumps out of the ground – the same rate as an average
residential water user. But the company can turn the area’s water
around, and sell it back to Sacramento at mammoth profits,” the
coalition said.
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