As California grapples with a devastating drought, with no end in sight - Nestle continues to bottle water in the sunshine state. “The reason this particular plant is of special concern is precisely because water is so scarce in the basin,” Peter Gleick, who wrote the book on bottled water, told The Desert Sun. “If you had the same bottling plant in a water-rich area, then the amount of water bottled and diverted would be a small fraction of the total water available. But this is a desert ecosystem. Surface water in the desert is exceedingly rare and has a much higher environmental value than the same amount of water somewhere else.”
Posted on: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 09:45:12 +0000
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