NESTLE Paid How Much to Extract 27,000,000 Gallons of California Drinking Water?… $524.00!… Big Media Shrugs It Off!

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While “drought-shaming” has
stopped corporations from drawing water from California, Nestle
continues to draw millions of gallons of water from the arid state with
an expired permit. ~ Claire Bernish

Los Angeles, CA —Nestle has found itself more and more frequently in the glare of the California drought-shame spotlight than
it would arguably care to be — though not frequently enough,
apparently, for the mega-corporation to have spontaneously sprouted a conscience.

Drought-shaming worked sufficiently enough for Starbucks to stop bottling water in
the now-arid state entirely, uprooting its operations all the way to
Pennsylvania.

Nestle simply shrugged off public outrage and then upped the ante by increasing its draw from natural springs — most notoriously in the San Bernardino National Forest with an absurdly expired permit.

Profit, of course. Or, perhaps more befittingly, theft. You get the idea.

Nestle has somehow managed the
most sweetheart of deals for its Arrowhead 100% Mountain Spring Water,
which is ostensibly sourced from Arrowhead Springs — and which
also happens to be located on public land in a national forest.

In
2013, the company drew 27 million gallons of water from 12 springs in
Strawberry Canyon for the brand — apparently by employing rather
impressive legerdemain — considering the permit to do so expired in 1988.

As Nestle will tell you,
that really isn’t cause for concern since it swears it is a good
steward of the land and, after all, that expired permit’s annual fee has
been diligently and faithfully paid in full — all $524 of it.

That isn’t the only water it collects. Another 51 million gallons of groundwater were drawn from the area by Nestle that same year.

There
is another site the company drains for profit while California’s
historic drought rages on: Deer Canyon. Last year, Nestle drew 76 million gallons from
the springs in that location, which is a sizable increase over 2013’s
56 million-gallon draw — and under circumstances just as questionable as
water collection at Arrowhead.

This extensive collection of water
is undoubtedly having detrimental effects on the ecosystem and its
numerous endangered and threatened species, though impact studies aren’t
available because they were mysteriously stopped before ever getting
underway.

In fact, the review process necessary to renew Nestle’s
antiquated permit met a similarly enigmatic termination: once planning
stages made apparent the hefty price tag and complicated steps said
review would entail, the review was simply dropped. Completely.
Without any new stipulations or stricter regulations added to the
expired permit that Nestle was ostensibly following anyway — though,
obviously, that remains an open question.

In 2014, Nestle used
roughly 705 million gallons of water in its operations in California,
according to natural resource manager Larry Lawrence. That’s 2,164
acre-feet of water — enough to “irrigate 700 acres of farmland” or “fill 1,068 Olympic-sized swimming pools,” as Ian James pointed out in The Desert Sun.

Though
there is no way to verify exactly how much Nestle must spend to produce
a single bottle of Arrowhead spring water, the astronomical profit is
undeniable fact: the most popular size of a bottle of Arrowhead 100% Mountain Spring Water (1 liter) retails for 89¢ — putting the potential profit for Nestle in the tens of billions.

Activists have called for a boycott of Nestle Waters and all Nestle products until they are held accountable for their actions in California.

There
is much more to be revealed in future articles as the investigation
into Nestle’s reckless profit-seeking during California’s unprecedented
drought continues.

Related research: in order to
the “solve” the California drought problem fracking companies are
planning on selling their waste water for agricultural purposes. Recent
research shows, however, that waste water not only contains thousands of
petrochemicals but significant amounts of long-lived and highly
carcinogenic radioactivity.

Related research: in order to the “solve” the
California drought problem fracking companies are planning on selling
their wastewater for agricultural purposes.

Recent research shows,
however, that wastewater not only contains thousands of petrochemicals
but significant amounts of long-lived and highly carcinogenic
radioactivity.

Read the article here:
Fracking Creates Massive Radioactive Waste Problem

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September 28, 2015 – KnowTheLies.com

 

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