As California deals with a fourth year of drought, with cities and towns ordered to cut urban water use by 25 percent from 2013 levels, Nestle continues drawing water out of a Southern California national forest for its bottled water business.
Nestle, the largest producer of bottle water in the United States, claims bottling spring water from the national forest does not do any harm.
But U.S. Forest Service officials said Friday they are following up on a newspaper investigation into a "long-expired permit that Nestle has been using to pipe water out of a national forest to use for bottled water."(Source: The Desert Sun)
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Nestle Waters North America takes water from wells fed by springs in Strawberry Canyon, north of San Bernardino, Calif. The water is sucked through a pipeline across the national forest and hauled by trucks to a plant where it is bottled as Arrowhead 100 percent Mountain Spring Water.
The Desert Sun investigation found that Nestle’s permit to transport the water expired in 1988, and no assessment has been done to evaluate the environment impact of the bottled water business.
That’s not the only California water Nestle bottles.
“Under another permit that has been expired since 1994, the Cucamonga Valley Water District draws water from Deer Canyon Springs in the national forest. The water agency, in turn, has a contract with Nestle and has been selling that water for bottling,” according to the Desert Sun.
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