^^^THIS (too)^^^
Nestle is a huge buyer of fresh water and actively pumps aquifers to frightening levels.
Nestle pumps out millions of gallons a day from the Crystal Springs complex, all with the tax-protection blessing of state government. this continued activity increases salt water infusion into the aquifers and that spells big trouble.
by no means is that the only water rights problem facing the state. development, golf courses, big sugar and beef have had unlimited access to water rights and in some of the most wasteful ways.
so water management and rights are not solely the problem of an increasingly arid western US (not to mention other parts of the world). right here in a state that some would say has too much water, which will get us first, the Atlantic converging with the Gulf of Mexico, or the salinization of fresh water resources before we all sink under the waves?
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