Comments on: Demand that Water Bottlers Reveal How Much of Our Water They’re Using

By: dikocmys

dikocmys — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:04:24 +0000

Hey it didn't bother anyone when the whites stole the water rights from the Native Indians so what difference should it make now that the bottlers are helping themselves to water that was “stolen” in the first place?

By: pelican beak

pelican beak — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 01:43:35 +0000

It certainly shouldn't be controlling women's bodies.
Or making criminals of pot smokers.

By: Don Parnell Jr

Don Parnell Jr — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:04:07 +0000

More stupid laws. Don't you guys think government is too big already?

By: kedikat

kedikat — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 23:37:19 +0000

I have to wonder how many folks that are worried about bottled water and it's effects, also demand tax cuts. It takes money to build and maintain a clean efficient water system. Like so many things that are being put into private hands, due to not enough money for the municipal, county and state governments to do it.
People seem to want to pay more to private companies for the same things, done in more reckless ways, than to pay through taxes, and own and control these things. Short sighted.
The people as a whole, used to build, own and control those things deemed vital to their every day well being. But they preferred to cheap out. Rugged individualists….HA! Individual pigeons for plucking.

By: BrotherWolf

BrotherWolf — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 17:39:04 +0000

It might not be so easy to obtain a copy of that bill, but I imagine that it could be done, if someone were enterprising and motivated enough.

Water in California is in shortening supply,(not unlike many other states) and particularly so in the central to southern portion. If more water is drawn out(most likely at a discounted rate, for these bottlers), then that pinches supply, and the rates go up for all the other customers. It's worth pointing out, too, that a large portion of this bottled water is probably sold outside of California, which may place even further demand on the supply. The idea of capturing rain water for drinking is a good one, but not really feasible for most Californians because of sporadic rainfall, complicated by drought cycles. Any way you slice it, water bottlers put a huge -and ultimately insupportable- strain on water resources, and unthinking people further this damage by buying bottled water by the caseful.

By: BrotherWolf

BrotherWolf — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 17:20:06 +0000

I have to question why this petition is not available for signatories outside of California. Understood, of course, that the proposal as a matter of legislation is for the State of California only, but, why not allow out-of-staters to show their support on this issue and voice their concern for the rest of the nation's drinking water resources at the same time?

By: Bottlefly

Bottlefly — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 10:07:16 +0000

If water bottlers are in fact taking from the municipal supply all thats needed is to LOOK AT THE COMPANIES WATER BILLS. This is not tough stuff. Why anyone would buy bottled water is beyond me,get a steel water bottle and refill it. Better yet buy a large ceramic water filter/dispenser and use rainwater as well as tap water,this is a safe method for filtering and dispensing water.

By: bulletproofair

bulletproofair — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:36:13 +0000

Alternatives....fill your water bottle from the faucet & for sports activities, bring 5 gallon coolers....

Can people seriously not remember how we got water before the bottled water industry came along?

But you are right about the industry being abhorrently wasteful. As far as the legislation goes, Rome wasn't built in a day.

If this legislation brings some more media-time to the issue, it's worth it. Americans would rather have convenience over common sense. Steve Jobs can put out a new product every month, and if it means thousands of people won't have to look down at their Ipod screen for 3 seconds, they'll think it's worth paying hundreds of dollars for.

Water bottlers simply need to be taxed out the ass. If there is no accountability for the quantity of pollution you're exposing unparticipating Americans to, yet those Americans have to pay for that pollution to be cleaned, it's obvious the industry benefits greatly by forcing taxpayers to clean up the messes they're responsible for creating.

By: SkoobieDoo

SkoobieDoo — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:13:15 +0000

Signed it! Thanks AlterNet!

By: pelican beak

pelican beak — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:24:47 +0000

The bottled water industry pursues an abhorrently wasteful method of bringing water to people.
Commonsense legislation would promote alternatives and prohibit that method whenever possible.
This legislation is pathetic crumbs.