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Nestle, Arrowhead Tapping Water From Morongo Reservation During CA Drought

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1Peter G17/18/2014 6:31:21 am PDT

re: #7 Jayleia

How is it different? I just mentioned that. People drink bottled water. The developer complaining about “our” water wants to use most of that potable water resource for everything else. Drinking will be less than 1% of its use. Now here we have a very clear case of an attempt at expropriating native riparian rights on the theory that they aren’t using their rights the way other people who want their assets would like. Robert Moses would smile upon them.

Now as to the nature of this water, it may be fossil water, that will soon be exhausted as developers are wont to do. Or farmers who use a non-renewable, or very slowly renewable water resource (see Ogallala aquifer) but it may also be a resource that tops up fairly quickly. The geology dictates that. Either way those native water rights belong to them. And if they want to maximize the value of THEIR water by selling it by the bottle that is surely their business. Now the people who want to effectively steal their rights are using the Nestle as a cover. But what they want to do is still stealing from the aboriginals. No doubt, it will be claimed, for their own good.