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Nestle did try to build a bottling plant near hood river a few years ago. They were going to draw water from a tributary that would have affected spawning salmo
by briffle 7y ago
Nestle did try to build a bottling plant near hood river a few years ago. They were going to draw water from a tributary that would have affected spawning salmon and steelhead. The county passed a ballot measure that no commercial water bottling could happen in Hood River County.
- CameronNemo 7y agoI guess California does not have enough salmon to care (nobody likes the smelt :/ ), or the farms are taking so much water that bottling is paltry in comparison.
- jedberg 7y agoCalifornia has a very complicated relationship with water. Because most of our state is a desert, water rights are something people literally killed over until pretty recently. Strong water rights are codified into our laws, and they mostly have to do with land ownership. You own the land you own the water underneath. It makes it really easy for Nestle to take advantage of laws written for farmers 150 years ago. We're slowly changing the rules about water so that we don't destroy California farming but still have water left in 50 years.
- CameronNemo 7y agoThe San Bernardino mountains Nestle extraction point is a federal property, though. The poor nation state cannot even govern its own water. https://www.courthousenews.com/watch-the-water-grab-california-warns-nestle/ https://www.courthousenews.com/watch-the-water-grab-californ...