{"id":11324,"date":"2015-08-21T09:41:49","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T14:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11324"},"modified":"2015-08-21T09:41:49","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T14:41:49","slug":"nestle-pays-only-524-to-extract-27000000-gallons-of-california-drinking-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11324","title":{"rendered":"Nestle Pays Only $524 to Extract 27,000,000 Gallons of California Drinking Water"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nestle Pays Only $524 to Extract 27,000,000 Gallons of California Drinking Water<\/a><\/h3>\n

Los Angeles, CA \u2014<\/i>\u00a0Nestle has found itself more and more frequently in the glare of the\u00a0California drought-shame spotlight<\/b>\u00a0than it would arguably care to be \u2014 though not frequently enough, apparently, for the megacorporation to have spontaneously sprouted a\u00a0conscience<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Drought-shaming worked sufficiently enough for Starbucks to\u00a0stop bottling water<\/a>\u00a0in the now-arid state entirely, uprooting its operations all the way to Pennsylvania. But Nestle simply shrugged off public outrage and then\u00a0upped the ante<\/i>\u00a0by increasing its draw from natural springs \u2014 most notoriously in the\u00a0San Bernardino National Forest \u2014<\/b>\u00a0with an\u00a0absurdly<\/i>\u00a0expired\u00a0permit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Because\u00a0profit<\/i><\/b>,\u00a0<\/b>of course. Or, perhaps more befittingly,\u00a0theft.\u00a0<\/i><\/b>But you get the idea.<\/p>\n

Nestle has somehow\u00a0managed<\/a>\u00a0the most sweetheart of deals for its Arrowhead 100% Mountain Spring Water, which is ostensibly sourced from Arrowhead Springs \u2014 and which also\u00a0happens to be located on public land in a national forest<\/b>.<\/p>\n

In 2013, the company drew\u00a027 million gallons of water<\/b>\u00a0from 12 springs in Strawberry Canyon for the brand \u2014 apparently by employing rather impressive legerdemain \u2014\u00a0considering the permit to do so\u00a0<\/i>expired in 1988<\/i><\/b>.<\/p>\n

But, as Nestle will tell you, that really isn\u2019t cause for concern since it swears it is a good steward of the land and, after all, that expired permit\u2019s annual fee has been diligently and faithfully paid in full \u2014\u00a0all\u00a0<\/i><\/b>$524<\/i><\/b><\/a>\u00a0of it<\/i><\/b>.<\/p>\n

And that isn\u2019t the only water it collects. Another\u00a051 million gallons of<\/i>groundwater<\/i><\/b>\u00a0were drawn from the area by Nestle that same year.<\/p>\n

There is another site the company drains for profit while California\u2019s historic drought rages on: Deer Canyon. Last year, Nestle drew\u00a076 million gallons<\/i>\u00a0from the springs in that location, which is a sizable increase over 2013\u2019s 56 million-gallon draw \u2014 and under circumstances just as questionable as water collection at Arrowhead.<\/p>\n

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Nestle Pays Only $524 to Extract 27,000,000 Gallons of California Drinking Water Los Angeles, CA \u2014\u00a0Nestle has found itself more and more frequently in the glare of the\u00a0California drought-shame spotlight\u00a0than it would arguably care to be \u2014 though not frequently enough, apparently, for the megacorporation to have spontaneously sprouted a\u00a0conscience. Drought-shaming worked sufficiently enough for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8350,101,220,4208,7283,1980,8351,866],"class_list":["post-11324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-anti-media","tag-california","tag-drought","tag-groundwater","tag-nestle","tag-profit","tag-theft","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11325,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11324\/revisions\/11325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}