Re:Nestlé Takes Majority Stake in Blue Bottle
by samstave on Thursday September 14, 2017 @09:32PM
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There are a range of other factors.
My family owns a water company in Lake Tahoe.
We are precluded from bottling or otherwise selling our water by the PUD to anyone other than the homes for which our water serves.
The bullshit factr in this is that PUDs (public utility districts) have made deals with companies like Nestle to allow them to slurp up thousands of litres per penny from wells/springs/aquifers and then sell that water for thousands % more than they pay...
Yet they limit small water companies who own their full infra and prevent them from going after market value for their water.
So as a small family water company, fuck nestle. I find your argument BS from the front lines of regulations that favor mega-corps and fuck over small companies.
We have been trying to get our Tahoe water bottled for decades - but it takes big money. And our water comes from a natural spring, not from the lake - and should not be regulated the way it is.
My family owns a water company in Lake Tahoe.
We are precluded from bottling or otherwise selling our water by the PUD to anyone other than the homes for which our water serves.
The bullshit factr in this is that PUDs (public utility districts) have made deals with companies like Nestle to allow them to slurp up thousands of litres per penny from wells/springs/aquifers and then sell that water for thousands % more than they pay...
Yet they limit small water companies who own their full infra and prevent them from going after market value for their water.
So as a small family water company, fuck nestle. I find your argument BS from the front lines of regulations that favor mega-corps and fuck over small companies.
We have been trying to get our Tahoe water bottled for decades - but it takes big money. And our water comes from a natural spring, not from the lake - and should not be regulated the way it is.