Tell that to Nestle
http://kitchenette.jezebel.com/nestle-has-been-bottling-and-selling-california-water-d-1695689016
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As many of you are no doubt aware, California has been dealing with a serious drought problem lately. And by lately, I mean four straight years now. It's gotten so bad, in fact, that Governor Jerry Brown just recently imposed water rationing for the first time in the state's history, including a 25% cut on residential water use.* Nestle, meanwhile, has been operating as if things were business as usual, last year drawing 50 million gallons from Sacramento sources alone, via Reuters. While that's less than half a percent of the total production of the Sacramento Suburban Water District, it would also constitute 12% of the district's total residential water usage. Numerous protests to the Sacramento area and an online petition with 40,000 signatures have sprung up in response.
A lot of this entire discussion probably comes down to whether you believe water should be a fundamental human right, or whether you are wrong. Again, Nestle isn't doing anything illegal. That's actually the problem: what Nestle is doing is perfectly legal. We really shouldn't get mad at Nestle for this; after all, you don't get mad when a puppy craps on the rug, because such is its nature. By the same token, since corporations are sociopaths, it's unfair to act surprised when they engage in sociopathic behavior. No, who we should really be mad at is the system that allows them to get away with things like this, one ostensibly comprised of human beings who know better.