Although the title of this article is “Nestlé’s Groundwater Extraction Shame,†the truth is that Nestle has no shame. Despite being frequently drought-shamed, the company continues to extract massive amounts of water in the arid state of California.
Starbucks at least paid heed to the drought-shaming and responded by uprooting its bottled water operations and moving them all the way to Pennsylvania. Nestlé however apparently is beyond sprouting a conscience under the same conditions.
Nestlé responded by merely shrugging off the public outrage and showed that it is a totally uncaring company that is just out for profit no matter what by actually upping the ante by increasing it’s the amount of water that it is drawing from natural springs, most notoriously in the San Bernardino National Forest, courtesy of an absurdly expired permit.
Nestlé has got what is known as a “sweetheart deal†for its Arrowhead 100% Mountain Spring Water, ostensibly sourced from Arrowhead Springs, which 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 under a permit that expired in 1988, although the company makes sure to diligently and faithfully pay its annual fee of $524. Nestlé also drew another 51 million gallons of groundwater from other sites in the same area.
Last year, Nestlé also drew 76 million gallons from the springs in Deer Canyon, under rather questionable circumstances. The drawing of these massive amounts of water definitely has a detrimental effect on the ecosystem as well as on various threatened and endangered species, and it boggles the mind how this company is allowed to get away with it.
A review process that was begun to renew Nestle’s antiquated permit was mysteriously dropped, and status quo was maintained – Nestlé just continues to strip California of its valuable water resources at will.
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