Wal-Mart Bottled Water Comes From Sacramento Municipal Supply

[UglyGreed]

Got to love the greed.

http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2015/05/08/wal-mart-bottled-water-comes-from-sacramento-municipal-supply/

[TheNutcracker]

1. Not to menton California water shortages, and many changes to come. Will they for Walmart?

[daleanime]

2. Went shopping yesterday, saw couple with four cases.....

of bottled water. Instead of demanding good public water, people have been convinced that it must be purchased.

[leftofcool]

3. In all fairness to them they might have their own well that does not produce good water

But you are right, we should be demanding good public water.

[BlueStreak]

4. Apart from the drought, this is just stupid

paying basically $10.gallon for tap water.

[LeftinOH]

5. That would be the case with many brands of bottled water-

especially 'store brands'.

[procon]

6. Wal-Mart's greed goes deeper than just money.

California's long term drought conditions has imposed harsh restrictions on residential water use. People are ordered to cut their water use, so no more car washing in your driveway, and the lawns must die while Wal-Mart gets to keep profiting by using up scarce natural resources. So when the water is depleted to the point that prices go up, Wal-Mart will simply move on to exploit the next town... like a plague locust.

[1939]

10. Kirkland (Costco) comes from Ontario, California

and is tap water run through a Reverse Osmosis process with additives to keep it from tasting sterile. Read the label on the bottle.

[NightWatcher]

7. It's the American Way. Steal your resources and sell them back to you at a premium

and as long as they promise sales taxes to local municipalities, they'll be left alone (or shit, given tax breaks) to continue to do so.

[closeupready]

8. File under, 'do bears shit in the woods?'

[drm604]

9. When I go to the market I see whole aisles of bottled water.

In this country we have some of the safest tap water in the world. Our tap water is better regulated than the bottled water. If you truly don't trust your tap water than put a filter on the faucet.

How many resources and how much energy do we waste putting water in bottles and shipping it across the country to places that have plentiful local water?

[KamaAina]

11. Why is Sacramento selling off its water supply to bottlers?

Nestle bottles Sac water, too.

I suspect DINO mayor Kevin Johnson (who you may remember from his NBA days, as well as for being married to ed deformer Michelle Rhee ) may have something to do with it.