Friend,

The new owner of Nestlé’s water operation, BlueTriton Brands, is snapping
up water rights across the country.

In states like Arkansas, Colorado, and Florida, BlueTriton is securing
permits previously held by Nestlé so it can continue to drain millions of
gallons of waters from our aquifers and sell it back to us.(1,2,3)

We are not going to let that happen in California. BlueTriton is asking
the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) to renew Nestlé’s permit for the San
Bernardino Forest, and we’re going straight to the USFS to let the agency
know that thousands of Californians want to keep BlueTriton OUT of our
water supply.

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convince the U.S. Forest Service to say NO to BlueTriton and Nestlé?

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California is facing one of the worst droughts in our history. It’s so
severe that California farmers have been warned that they may not be able
to water their crops later in the summer.(4)

Reservoir are running dry. Forests are red and scorched.(5)

And yet BlueTriton is still pulling millions of gallons of water out of
the San Bernardino Forest, with no intention to stop -- despite the
cease-and-desist order from the California State Water Resources Control
Board.(6)

BlueTriton is using an expired permit to pull more than 25 times the
original designated limit of water out of the ground for $12,000 a
year.(7) And considering it paid Nestlé $4.3 billion for its bottling
company in North America, BlueTriton will do anything possible to keep
stealing our water.(8)

Courage California has joined a coalition of advocacy groups to stop
BlueTriton from stealing our water. We are going to stage a public
petition delivery and action outside the U.S. Forest Service to defend our
most precious resource.

[ [link removed] ]Will you donate to help save California’s water from BlueTriton?

Yours in the fight for our environment,

Irene, along with Angela, Annie, Caitlin, Jay, Lindsay, LisaMarie, Molly,
Raquel, and Scottie (the Courage team)

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