They are not drawing water from their property. They are drawing water from presumably federal jurisdiction.
What water rights are associated from the property they own on the lake front? Do they have federal water rights or federal use permits? If they are withdrawing water where multiple water use permits are granted, if their withdrawal affects others with water use permits then they must provide remedy to the others or stop.
Remember, a corporation is not a person.
The point is that the Great Lakes has 6.9 QUADRILLION Gallons of Water. It’s not possible to measurably change their water level by selling bottled water taken from them and transported in boxes by containership.
Buying bottled water is imbecilic for anyone, of course, so to me it’s a huge win to rip off foreign countries buying bottled water at a huge markup.
The posted article is so impossibly idiotic it’s tough to cover all of them, but another is yet another effort to blame Obama for something that 1) Can’t possibly have ever reached his level for decision and 2) started during the Bush administration, anyway.
If the federal government owns the right to confiscate the mineral rights on property owned by Nestle, it holds the right to confiscate the property of each of us.