Feds allow Nestle to keep piping water in California forest
Source: Associated Press
Updated 7:27 pm, Wednesday, June 27, 2018
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nestle has been offered a three-year permit to keep taking millions of gallons of water from Southern California's San Bernardino National Forest, but with new restrictions designed to keep a creek flowing for other uses.
The offer announced Wednesday by the U.S. Forest Service allows the maker of Arrowhead bottled water to continue piping water from the Strawberry Creek watershed as it has done for decades.
The permit would allow extraction only when there is water available to protect natural resources in the forest northeast of Los Angeles. Use could be restricted if the state re-enters a drought.
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Nestle bottles the freaking water, but I'm fairly certain they have absolutely no hand in "making" the water. 
The plastic bottles used to market this water are one of the biggest reasons our oceans are polluted with plastic "islands". That, and the contamination of the water with thousands of microscopic pieces of plastic that are ingested by the consumer, are the prime reason "bottled water" should be outlawed. This crap is literally killing us. With the supply of fresh drinking water decreasing each day, I don't see how the government can continue to let this go on. But then I think about the "government" we have at the moment, the lunacy and incompetence therein, and I know nothing will be done about it. 
