Arrowhead water bottler ordered to stop operations in San Bernardino Mountains

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KTLA

The federal government has backed up California state regulators in ordering the company that bottles Arrowhead water to stop drawing from the San Bernardino Mountains.

Though BlueTriton Brands draws from springs in the mountains that have been used for bottled water since 1906, environmental activists have claimed the removal of that water is harming wildlife, particularly Strawberry Creek.

About a year ago, California’s Water Resources Control Board ordered BlueTriton to stop using the water, which flows through public lands like the San Bernardino National Forest.

On Wednesday, the Los Angeles Times reported that the U.S. Forest Service has denied BlueTriton’s permit to extract water from San Bernardino Mountains springs.

Finally!

[Magoo48]

1. Damn good news!

Our common welfare demands that all public-water thieves be stopped. Bottled water is a horror show.

[murielm99]

2. We have a well.

I use a Brita filter and the water from my tap.

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3. Our city provider had to close all our wells as too contaminated.

[murielm99]

4. Our well is tested regularly.

That reminds me.....

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5. Excellent (and lucky).

[Magoo48]

8. Kool

Our community here in Saddleback Valley uses well water. The tech for capturing rain runoff from winter storms appears to be progressing fairly rapidly now as well.

[quaint]

9. Very cool your wells are still safe.

Capturing rain water is really important.
So glad Governor Newsom (Gavin 2032!) includes it in his water management plan..

[hunter]

6. It shouldn't be a big deal to replicate the exact composition and taste of this water...

... using ordinary Los Angeles tap water as a source. But that upends the mystique these "natural" spring waters are sold by.

Our regional wastewater treatment plant refines raw sewage into irrigation water and potable water. They bottle some of this potable water for people to sample on tours of the plant. Mostly this potable water is used to replenish the aquifers our local cities draw their water from.

My wife and I make our own drinking water by reverse osmosis. The waste water from our reverse osmosis unit replenishes the fountains and fishponds in our garden.

Ultimately all the water on earth is recycled water. At some point in it's journey through the biosphere all the "good" water we drink has been at times "bad" water we would never drink

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7. I also purify our tainted tap water through reverse osmosis, but...

it is wrong to force residents to purchase bottled water by licensing Arrowhead to harvest local supply.

[hunter]

10. Our tap water is very hard and aggressive.

The water gets visibly crusty when heated.

Before we got the reverse osmosis unit our coffee makers would only last two or three years, even when we descaled them regularly.

I fill the prewash cup of our dishwasher with citric acid before every load, otherwise all our glassware becomes cloudy.

In my fantasy world we'd be restoring all the riparian and wetland environments humans have destroyed.

Streams I remember flowing all year around as a kid are now completely dry most of the year and they become raging torrents during storms, draining all the places that have been "developed" with streets, parking lots, McMansions, and big box stores.

[ret5hd]

11. If you want to bottle water...

and sell water for more than gasoline…

you know what? the only place you should be getting it from is desalination of seawater.

or maybe purification of fracking waste.

then at least you are doing something good for the planet.