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Water bottling is a red herring, that one arrowhead bottling facility in california that everyone likes to blame for water shortages uses the same amount of wat

• deaddodo 4y ago
  Except there’s not one water bottling plant. There’s multiple Arrowhead bottling plants, Crystal Lake’s plant, a few Nestle Pure Life, Dasani, Aquafina, etc. In fact, a simple Google search would have told you that there are over 110 of them: https://money.cnn.com/2015/05/26/news/companies/california-bottled-water-drought/ https://money.cnn.com/2015/05/26/news/companies/california-b... And while the amount they bottle is a drop compared to Ag, their total bottling amount equals the total residential (which includes municipal) water usage in the state. Yet they pay a fraction per gallon, lobby to keep water restriction measures in place on residents and spread misinformation on the topic.
  • seanalltogether 4y ago
    > their total bottling amount equals the total residential (which includes municipal) water usage in the state From the article you linked "The International Bottled Water Association says that about 3.1 billion gallons of water are bottled in California annually. Nestle, for example, uses 725 million gallons of water annually at its California bottling plants. But that volume is dwarfed by the 4 trillion, (with a "t,") gallons used by residents every year." So those 110 companies combined use 0.00077 of the water residents use each year, and likely pays the same per gallon as other ag and industrial consumers, and this is considered a problem worthy of attention?
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