A reader comments on InfluenceMap:
Since they gave Nestle a C+, they apparently don’t mind that Nestle is raping California water supplies.
From The Desert Sun:
High in the San Bernardino Mountains, on a steep slope covered with brush and ferns, a bunker-like stone structure protrudes from the mountainside. Behind its locked metal doors, water is collected from wells and flows into a pipe to fill bottles of Arrowhead 100% Mountain Spring Water.
The U.S. Forest Service has long been allowing Nestle to pipe water out of the national forest from a collection of wells using a permit that lists an expiration date of 1988. The company has been paying the San Bernardino National Forest an annual permit fee of $524, and the water has continued to flow, even as the drought has prompted questions about the potential impacts on a stream and wildlife in the national forest.
Further in the article I note that the Forest Service denied a number of permit applications from Nestle; they claim their failure to re-examine the original permit was a problem of resources and oversight, nothing deliberate.
