Regardless of how much water they use, the "longest straw" thing is bullshit. Nestle has a long history of "stealing" water from local communities. Water tables should be protected and controlled. Bottled water is one of the biggest marketing scams every invented.
Fuck Nestle, Fuck Fiji, and fuck you for putting the acute over the "e", you damn shill. Who the hell even knows how to do that? SHILL!
More evidence from another cuteman post:
Nestlé uses less than 0.008% of the total in CA. Nearly 50 billion cubic metres (13 trillion gallons) of water is used in California each year. Nestlé uses less than 4 million cubic metres (1 billion gallons) in all its operations. They operate five bottled water plants (out of 108 in the state) and four food plants. Their bottled water plants use around 2.66 million cubic metres (705 million gallons) of water a year. No one gave a shit until the drought. Aquifer depletion is a much bigger problem since it's non renewable. Snow pack is unusually low as well. They seriously use such a laughably low amount compared to total use, in that context even a cynic like me finds it hard to condemn them. Bottled water is a godsend when you need it and a fairly important commodity even when you don't. I stay fairly hydrated but when you need water that's the last thing I'd want to fuck with. Food is important. Showers are important. Toilets are important. Washing clothes and dishes is important. But water? That one is necessary every day of your life. Through education we can encourage people to use washable containers and bring their own water but in terms of overall availability... There's that whole issue of them only using 0.008% which is practically nothing. While everyone is jerking off about bottled water, if the situation doesn't change there might be some hard choices ahead for food crops in California. If you didn't know, they grow a metric shit ton of produce, meat, cheese, wine and nuts. In some cases 90%+ of global supply (almonds and a few others). If availability goes down, prices go up. If it's a globally important producer for a certain market that would have global implications.