Nestlé and its successor BlueTriton have been illegally removing water
from a US national park for nearly 100 years.

Tell the US Forest Service to kick the bottled water company off of public
lands now.

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John,

We celebrated a huge victory last year when California water officials
ordered bottled water giant BlueTriton to stop draining over 50 million
gallons of water a year from the San Bernardino National Forest in
California.

But that victory was just taken away from us by a California judge who
recently ruled that BlueTriton can continue extracting water from the
national forest after all.

Now the best way to fight back and protect the people’s water from
corporate greed is to convince the US Forest Service to kick the bottled
water company out of the publicly-owned San Bernardino National Forest. 

We’ll be hand-delivering the petition to the US Forest Service next week,
but support from the entire Ekō community is needed to ensure the delivery
is a success.

[ [link removed] ]Sign the petition now to demand that the US Forest Service deny
BlueTriton’s permit to occupy public lands with their water extraction
infrastructure.

BlueTriton, and Nestlé before them, spent nearly 100 years hoodwinking
regulators – taking water to which they had no lawful right. But we didn’t
have the proof we needed to stop the corporate water grab until a local
activist searched government archives, gathered news articles, and
ultimately found the original notes of the surveyor who identified the
springs.

This vital evidence was presented in hearings that went on for two years
thanks to BlueTriton’s stall tactics. Every time we thought we were close
to a final decision, we faced more delays.

But thanks to our intense digital ads campaign, thousands of emails and
calls from Ekō members, and the incredible work of our partners, the
California Water Board finally did the right thing.

Unfortunately, BlueTriton sued the California Water Board instead of
complying with the ruling. And the judge in the case sided with
BlueTriton.

This is a devastating blow, but we must keep fighting.We must convince the
US Forest Service to deny BlueTriton’s permit for building and maintaining
water extraction infrastructure in the San Bernardino National Forest.
Without permission to occupy public lands with tunnels, boreholes, and
pipelines, there would be no way for BlueTriton to get the water it’s
stealing to the bottling plant. The company would be forced to shut down
operations.

[ [link removed] ]Add your name to show Forest Service Chief Randy Moore that we won’t
rest until BlueTriton is out of the San Bernardino National Forest once
and for all.

The Ekō community has been working with partners for eight years to stop
corporations from draining water away from the San Bernardino National
Forest. And even though the odds were against us, we convinced the
California Water Board to do the right thing. Now we need to work that
same magic on the US Forest Service.



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Thanks for all that you do,
Lacey and the team at Ekō


More information:

[ [link removed] ]California may limit how much company behind Arrowhead bottled water
can draw from mountain springs
AP News. 19 September 2023.
[ [link removed] ]A bitter feud centers on source of Arrowhead bottled water
Los Angeles Times. 20 January 2022.
[ [link removed] ]Drought-hit California moves to halt Nestlé from taking millions of
gallons of water
The Guardian. 27 April 2021.
[ [link removed] ]Nestlé doesn't have valid rights to water it's been bottling,
California officials say
Desert Sun. 23 April 2021.
[ [link removed] ]BlueTriton to Keep Diverting California Water as Motion Granted
Bloomberg Law. 25 January 2023.

 

 

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