{"id":8030,"date":"2015-05-12T05:44:15","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T10:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8030"},"modified":"2015-05-12T05:44:15","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T10:44:15","slug":"wal-mart-exposed-bottling-water-from-sacramento-municipal-supply-in-the-middle-of-a-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8030","title":{"rendered":"Wal-Mart Exposed Bottling Water from Sacramento Municipal Supply in the Middle of a Drought"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wal-Mart Exposed Bottling Water from Sacramento Municipal Supply in the Middle of a Drought<\/a><\/h3>\n

Wal-Mart is facing questions tonight after CBS13\u00a0learns<\/span><\/span>\u00a0the company draws its bottled water from a Sacramento water district during California\u2019s drought.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

According to its own labeling, the water in the gallon jugs appears to come from Sacramento\u2019s water supply.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sacramento sells water to a bottler, DS Services of America, at 99 cents for every 748 gallons\u2014the same\u00a0rate\u00a0<\/span><\/span>as other commercial and residential customers. That water is then bottled and sold at Walmart for 88 cents per gallon, meaning that $1 of water from Sacramento turns into $658.24 for Walmart and DS Services.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2013 From the\u00a0CBS News in Sacramento<\/em>\u00a0article:\u00a0Wal-Mart Bottled Water Comes From Sacramento Municipal\u00a0Supply<\/a><\/p>\n

We all know there\u2019s a severe drought plaguing much of\u00a0California. I haven\u2019t focused on this topic much, but I did publish a very powerful post on it last fall titled:\u00a0Video of the Day \u2013 Stunning Scenes from California\u2019s Central Valley Drought<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0<\/em>I suggest checking it out if you missed it the first time.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now we learn of some pretty troubling news that Wal-Mart is sourcing some of its bottled water from the Sacramento water supply, despite the fact that:\u00a0\u201cSacramento-area water districts are preparing to enforce residential water-use cuts as high as 36 percent.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

As we all know, you should never let a historic drought get in the way of corporate profit margins; and these\u00a0appear to be some really nice margins. We learn from\u00a0CBS News in\u00a0Sacramento<\/em><\/a>\u00a0that:<\/p>\n

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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) \u2014 Wal-Mart is facing questions tonight after CBS13\u00a0learns\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the company draws its bottled water from a Sacramento water district during California\u2019s drought.<\/em><\/p>\n

According to the label, the water comes from the Sacramento Municipal Water Supply. This comes on the\u00a0heels of Starbucks opting to move sourcing and production<\/a>\u00a0of its Ethos bottled water\u00a0from California to Pennsylvania<\/a>.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n

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Wal-Mart Exposed Bottling Water from Sacramento Municipal Supply in the Middle of a Drought Wal-Mart is facing questions tonight after CBS13\u00a0learns\u00a0the company draws its bottled water from a Sacramento water district during California\u2019s drought. According to its own labeling, the water in the gallon jugs appears to come from Sacramento\u2019s water supply. Sacramento sells water […]<\/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":[101,141,220,5351,859,5350,5348,2060],"class_list":["post-8030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-california","tag-climate-change","tag-drought","tag-sacramento","tag-wal-mart","tag-walmart","tag-water-bottling","tag-water-shortage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8030","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=8030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8031,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8030\/revisions\/8031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}