I do wonder the effects of water removal from a regional area by the production of all drinks, bottled water, soda, etc... Its hard not to argue when you take millions or billions or perhaps even trillions of gallons of water a year out of one local area to ship it somewhere else, that it doesn’t have long term impacts.
Its one thing if the water remains in the general watershed region that it is taken from, its another if its taken somewhere far outside of it.
That’s not liberalism though, that’s just basic understanding of how it all works. Not to mention the possible impacts downstream if you are taking water from a flowing supply.
What the soviets did to the Ural Sea is an example of what happens when you start removing or diverting water from natural flows in large amounts.
Not anti capitalism, but certainly can see that in particular locations removal of large amounts of water for various purposes can have real long term negative impacts that are not considered or understood.
I think Busch Gardens originally started out as an abatement project, to offset something beer production does to the water.
The amount of water that bottled drinks shift across watersheds would seem to be trivial. You have calculations that show otherwise?
California is in a drought and every time someone says anything about conserving water here the residents all scream about Nestles water bottling in the Bakersfield plant.
“Water removal” how? Living things continue to excrete water; it does not get “removed” from a system except by acts of God. (That includes the Aral Sea.)
#6 The soda you drink eventually ‘comes out’ and goes back into the local ecosystem in a circuitous route.......
Now the estimated amount of fresh water on the planet is 6 quadrillion. That's an incredible number. Now consider the Earth's population at around 7 billion. The average human uses 2.4 gallons of water a day. Let's round that to 10 billion people consuming 2.4 gallons of fresh water a day. Thats 24 billion gallons a day - or 8.76 trillion gallons a year.
So the human race consumes approx. 1.2 per cent of the available fresh water every year. Of course, all of this is eventually recycled into the world supply. (You just don't want to think about where the water you drank today has been over the past few billion years).
Now if you count ALL water, including salt water, we have 326 million TRILLION gallons available on planet earth.
That's just a crazy amount of water.