Do you drink bottled water? If so, you are among the biggest suckers ever born. And there are LOT of you. I rank among your number. But associated with this world class con job are the even bigger suckers. Those are the people who live where the bottled water companies rape the local water supply.
There are so many aspects to the scam.
First there are the sad sacks, lied to by companies like Poland Springs when they show up to empty their aquifers. Those companies then move on the their next bag of rubes.
Before we get into the details of what the government and cronies are doing to our drinking water AND WHERE WE ARE DOING IT, you might want to check out this optional primer. It will add mind-blowing perspective to what was already an utterly avoidable disaster. You can watch it now, or go back to it after this episode. But I highly recommend it as a companion piece.
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To Get Water, "First, Kill All The Lawyers."
Shut up. Quit your bitchin’. The title is a quote from Shakespeare, and a metaphor at that. No lawyers were harmed in the production of this podcast.
Modern society has long since provided a simple and safe way to supply drinking to the population. It’s one of the few jobs I think the government (local and perhaps state) should be doing. With vanishingly few exceptions, like Flint, Michigan’s money saving water project, we’ve gotten our money’s worth.
And we have no end of ways to carry that water. We have thermoses (thermi?), sports bottles, even camel backs. And yet, almost all of us have been conned into paying too much to carrying those cheap, crinkly, chemical-leeching bottles around with us everywhere we go. Although convenient, an honest critic must ask, how much convenience do we need.
This, to say nothing of the insane waste that the bottles create. They are difficult to recycle. The ones that make it into a recycling bin MOSTLY end up at the nearest landfill anyway. Or (get this) they are exported, along with tons of other waste, to some Asian country where they will cull the crap they want discard what they don’t - right into the nearest waterway. And guess what they never want. Ding! Ding! Ding! That’s right. Those damn bottles.
I am no fanatical environmentalist. BUT - the rate at which we discard those shitty water bottles is utterly unsustainable and inexcusable. (That reminds me. I have to start research on my K-cup episode!) It would be one thing if we HAD TO have these bottles. In that case, I would say people before animals. But that just isn’t the case. We can correct the problem immediately by simply reusing those sports cups most of us have sitting around the house already.
I know, I know! I might as well demand you sacrifice your first-born.
The thing that makes us all suckers is that we presently pay more for a bottle of tap water than we do for gasoline. And do you know why we do? It’s because the companies involved (Nestle, Coke, Pepsi and others) know exactly what to do to make you THINK you NEED there stuff.
Some of us are old enough to remember the early advertisements for this crap. They would show you a mountain spring. You could almost feel how cool and fresh the spring was. A soothing announcer would tell you that if you drink Poland Springs or Evian or Deer Park, it would be like touching your lips to this babbling brook.
In fact they were pumping from bore holes and in some cases regular tap water.
They all got busted in that lie years ago. When they were found out, there were some lawsuits and a bit government scrutiny. The lawsuit impacts were laughable. Nestle was required to offer $10 million in discounts (offset by price of course) and contributions to various charities. The executives at charities were surely were bought off along with the local political whores we’ll discuss here in just a bit.
And did the public look at the companies and say well you lied, so we’re not buying your overpriced shit anymore? No! The industry has expanded wildly since. Once it became obvious the public would buy anything, the bigs just moved there operation from the wells right to local water utilities in towns across the country.
The lawsuits taught them a few things, so when they went to small rural towns to tell them they were going to haul millions of gallons per year from their water supply, state and local politicians are already bought off. They also anticipated those pesky “do gooders” messing up their scam, so the town suddenly gets a new gym and day care center paid for by Coke or Nestle. And all the little leagues (football, baseball, hockey, etc) and their equipment are paid for. WHAT NICE GUYS THEY ARE!
So instead of listening to reason (You can’t let these guys drain the aquifers and hope it will be okay!) the towns turn on the do gooders! Don’t mess up a good thing. We get goodies from these guys. Do you have any idea how much it costs to have our three boys into football?
The bottlers know something else too. The Left has turned alarmism about EVERYTHING into a cottage industry.
Later, when wells start to fail and reservoirs are pumping mud, we see stories like the ones in the links in the footnotes.
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Orders now and might not make it for Christmas. But better late than never!
Idiotic Fig Leaves
Did you ever notice those asinine public statements that are released by companies caught red-handed being assholes, AFTER somebody gets killed? Boeing is a shining example. They had two generations of being one of the safest companies in the world. Then Wall Street jackasses took over and intentionally shit-canned all the things that made the company great. Then after several inexcusable and deadly events, they put out a bunch of bullshit about how they are ramping up their safety programs in a “continuing effort” to be super duper safe!
Similarly, after wrecking the drinking water supply of multiple communities, and continuing to do so in countless more (where is going to freak you the hell out), one bottled water company put this lame ass statement out.
Committed to positive water impact
We work tirelessly to care for our water sources. In 2018, we committed to certifying all our bottling sites to the Alliance for Water Stewardship Standard by 2025. This standard requires us to act on local water challenges. Additionally, we’re using our expertise to help regenerate water cycles where we operate – implementing more than 70 projects for our 40 water sites by 2025. Those projects will support work to aid reforestation, restore wetlands, and use drip irrigation among other methods to reduce water withdrawals and help nature retain more water than our business uses in its operations.
Ultimately, collaboration is at the heart of water stewardship. To review the sustainability of our projects and make sure they address local challenges, we’ve established an external panel of non-governmental organizations and academia. Together, we can make a positive water impact.
We’re also working to reduce our overall impact. We’re now using recycled PET plastic across most brands. And our ambition is to create a circular economy for plastics, reducing our virgin PET plastic use by a third by 2025 and collecting as many plastic bottles as we produce by 2030.
Well first, I’ll believe that last goal when I see it. Pigs will fly and hell will get mighty chilly. But more than that, it doesn’t solve the primary problem. These companies are competing with the communities they rape for every drop of water. And since the local politicians are put on special boards paid for by the companies, or just bribed outright, and as I said, the town is bought off with goodies, it becomes like Little Orphan Annie fighting Mike Tyson. The fix it in.
And did you notice the opener? “We work tirelessly…” It implies that this is an ongoing reality. They pay highly trained copy writers to pump this stuff out so you’ll believe it. And they pay well!
Okay, I’ll Stop Teasing…Where are they pumping water from?
The locations in the link that jumped out at me were the Dasani locations in California. If planners knew anything about long-term water needs - or cared - Los Angeles and San Diego would have been tiny whistle stops on the way to the Baja. Nobody in their right minds would have grown a sprawling metropolis. And it is here that Dasani gets A LOT of its water!
Check out the embedded video from earlier. California already drains neighboring states for their water. The contracts allowing this are lopsided and abused in favor of California. And with 54 electoral votes in play, federal political whores have no interest in hammering out a new agreement.
So the insane damage is two fold. The augmented California water supply is always strained to deliver. Then these water scammers come in and draw inordinate amounts of H2O from that. Added to that is the insult of surrounding states having their reservoirs drawn down to dangerous levels to feed the bottling companies and California’s presumptuous usage.
Our state and federal governments do a lot of stupid things. But this is beyond stupid. The lack of reform shows how obtuse your elected whores are. I’ve said it countless times on this program. THEY DON’T CARE ABOUT YOU!!!!!!
So California is a water nightmare. If they run short on water it will be because they ran their neighboring states dry in the process. The answers to that problem are in that embedded video primer.
But what of areas where water is abundant? I lived in southern Mississippi for a few years. We were just north of Biloxi ans Pascagoula. The water table was very high. Why not harvest water there for bottled water? The answer is simple. Those areas are what they are because of the high water table. You can’t just pump from the bayou because the water is brackish and the gulf in that area is a sewer.
Further, if the bottlers decided to see it as a gold mine, the water situation would change very quickly. So would the environment. This cannot continue. It’s too stupid for words.
There are so many things that must change and quickly. We need to utterly shit can any vestiges of Davos/ WEF. We need to completely overhaul education, which will start by busting NATIONAL teachers unions and flushing “social justice” indoctrination from our schools. We MUST beef up our power grid and rapidly expand our power sources - coal, natural gas, hydro and nukes. We must scrape our streets clean of illegals, especially Islamist political freaks. There are too many “must do” items to list here. You’ll find most of them in my archive.
But without water in key areas, the rest is pointless. So check out the embedded video and the links in the footnotes.
Next time we’ll set our sights on the worst governors in the country. They haven’t gotten near enough scorn. We’ll discuss Shapiro, Glamorous Gavin and the Prickster.
On a happier note, the Eagles won one. They slammed the Raiders 31-0. Of course, at the time the Raiders were 2-11. One must find joy where one can.
Carry on smartly. Cheers.
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What the citizens suffered. A quick look. Nobody questioned why the project was so cheap.
What the political whores, in this case GOP, got away with. I noticed they slicked their phones and emails in the process of covering their blatant criminal activity. They learned that trick from BJ Bills’ wife.
