How Nestlé is using a Native American tribe's land to get away with draining California dry
An eye-opening video from AJ+ has us asking, "How is this happening?"
You might be most familiar with Nestlé as the company behind some of the world's tastiest cavity-inducing chocolate treats.
But did you know that they're also the company behind seven (yes, seven) different brands of bottled water in the U.S.?
See, California is going through a bit of a drought — and I mean "a bit" in the sense that my beloved Chicago Cubs' 107-year World Series drought is "a bit" of a losing streak.
But seriously, it's bad out there.
As luck would have it, Nestlé owns a few bottled water plants right in the state — and they know how to drill from the desert. California is saved, right? Wrong!
Rather than keep the water for local use, Nestlé is bottling it and selling it all around the country.
At this point, I thought to myself, "OK, OK, I'm sure the state can hop in there and tell Nestlé to stop sending water out of state, right?" Wrong.
Why? Because that land belongs to the Morongo Native American tribe (Nestlé leases it from them), meaning that they're not obligated to follow local rules.