| Friend, More than a month after the California State Water Resources Control Board ordered BlueTriton Brands -- formerly Nestlé -- to stop taking water out of the San Bernardino forests, the company is still draining the valley for its Arrowhead brand. BlueTriton has requested a hearing to appeal the order, and they continue to take the water in the meantime.(1,2) BlueTriton paid $4.3 billion to acquire Nestlé Waters North America, and it’s not going to give up the San Bernardino water without a fight.(3) Our coalition with Story of Stuff and SumOfUs has collected nearly 50,000 signatures calling on the U.S. Forest Service to stop allowing Nestlé/BlueTriton to take California’s water, and we’re planning a big public action to get the media and grassroots energy on our side. Will you donate to help stop Nestlé and BlueTriton from stealing our water? If you've saved your payment information with ActBlue Express, your donation will go through immediately: For more than 125 years, Nestlé has been pumping water out of the Strawberry Canyon in San Bernardino and selling it back to us as Arrowhead bottled water. And when BlueTriton bought Nestlé’s American bottling company, it assumed it was getting the water permit for San Bernardino along with it — despite the fact that the permit expired in 1988.(4,5) The company is using the expired permit to pull more than 25 times the original designated limit of water out of the ground for the paltry sum of $2,100 a year.(6) Now the U.S. Forest Service is deciding whether to renew the permit, giving us the best chance in years to stop the theft of California’s water.(7) This news comes just as scientists are reporting that California is suffering from one of the driest years on record and is facing the possibility of a devastating fire season.(8) We need every drop of water possible to stay in the state. Will you donate to help save California’s precious water supply? Yours in the fight for our environment, Irene, along with Angela, Annie, Caitlin, Deepthi, Jay, Lindsay, LisaMarie, Molly, Raquel, and Scottie (the Courage team) Donations go to support all of Courage California's work for a more progressive California and country. Follow us now on Facebook or Twitter! Footnotes:  |
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