Posted on 12/23/2017 5:27:53 PM PST by granite
SAN BERNARDINO, CA -- Food and drink company Nestlé was told this week that it doesn't have the proper permits to bottle water from the San Bernardino National Forest. California's Water Resources Control Board told the Swiss company that an investigation showed "the diversion or use of water exceeding 26 acre-fee per annum (AFA) and, accordingly, any diversions in excess of that amount may be unauthorized."
In a letter, the state said said it began an investigation after receiving complaints dating back to April 2015. Its investigation found that the company's "claim to a pre-1914 water right that originates from an 1865 possessory claim by David Noble Smith is limited to riparian uses and is not valid for Nestlé's current appropriative diversion and use of water from the San Bernardino National Forest."
The letter also states, "while Nestlé may be able to claim a valid basis of right to some water in Strawberry Canyon, a significant portion of the water currently diverted by Nestlé appears to be diverted without a valid basis of right."
State staff asked that the company immediately cease diversions.
The company is the maker of Arrowhead Mountain Spring Water, a popular water company that obtains its water from California, Nevada and Utah.
They should pull out of CA entirely.
Living in CA has gotta suck so bad.
Strongly agree.
Translation: you are not paying us enough to do business in Kalifornia.
Always loved that one!
Tell me about it.
Someone is looking for their palm to be greased.
This Nestle’s boss once said that people do not have a right to free water. As if you should have to buy it from him, and maybe even buy the air we now breath free. Story has several sides.
Do the restaurants in Taxifornia have permits to freeze water and serve it in ice-cubes?
The landowners in the area are not willing to give away their water and the residents don’t want to lose jobs.
CA state government is like some gigantic costly homeowners association, with your typical leftist raving lunatics on the HOA board of directors, all of which are super control freaks.
If California is so drought-ridden, how can they have enough water to ship it away?
Poland springs is owned by nestle.
>>This product is known to the state of Kalifornia to cause cancer.
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I once had a package of seaweed that said this very thing (without the K), and wondered how natural seaweed could cause cancer.
Maybe the smelt need it?
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