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BlueTriton, the company that owns Arrowhead brand, has been taking water from San Bernardino springs for more than 100 years

California has ordered the company that owns Arrowhead bottled water to stop using some of the natural springs it has utilized for more than a century, following a years-long campaign by environmentalists to stop the operation.

Regulators on Tuesday voted to significantly reduce how much water BlueTriton – the owner of the Arrowhead brand – can take from public lands in the San Bernardino mountains. The ruling is a victory for community groups who have said for years that the bottled water firm has drained an important creek that serves as a habitat for wildlife and helps protect the area from wildfires.

Arrowhead bottled water traces its roots to a hotel at the base of the San Bernardino Mountains that first opened in 1885 and began selling bottled spring water from its basement in 1906. But environmental and community groups say the company has never had permission to take water from the springs in the San Bernardino national forest.

The state water resources control board agreed that BlueTriton does not have permission to use the water and ordered the company to stop. The order does not ban the company from taking any water from the mountain, but it significantly reduces how much it can take.

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[-] zepheriths@lemmy.world 170 points 1 year ago

"Blue triton" that's interesting let look into that.... it's Nestle

[-] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago

I guess Nestlé has such a reputation they wanted to rebrand.

[-] Bluefruit@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

You see it all the time.

Facebook became "Meta" ,Comcast became "Xfinity", and I'm sure theres plenty of other examples.

[-] lungbutter@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago

Rapeseed oil became Canola oil.

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Im gonna make custom stickers and annoy the Aldi employees.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Still called that in the UK.

[-] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 year ago

Google became Alphabet

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Blackwater became Xe Services became Academi became Constellis Holdings

[-] HughJanus@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think that had more to do with symbolizing a change in the direction of the company (ie: metaverse) and also a global name for a variety of products (instead of just Facebook) rather than just trying to hide who they are. They don't even have any Meta-branded products. Facebook is still Facebook, Instagram is still Instagram, and WhatsApp is still WhatsApp.

[-] Bluefruit@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I can see your point but it more so comes off as a "rebrand". Trying to distance themselves from what they used to be so hopefully people forget all the shit they pulled.

That said, it very well may be just an attempt to shift the direction of a company but I highly doubt thats really the motive or the only intention.

[-] HughJanus@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Trying to distance themselves from what they used to be so hopefully people forget all the shit they pulled.

People don't open the Facebook app or log into Facebook.com and forget all the shit they pulled because they changed their name to Meta.

[-] SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

They don't even have any Meta-branded products.

Meta Quest instead of Oculus Quest

[-] Psythik@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago

They've already removed their logo from several products (ex: Nestlé Pure Life is just Pure Life now). Now you have to check back of the label more closely to avoid them. But rebranding would make that more difficult. Instead of actually stopping the human rights violations they rather just do this. It's disgusting.

[-] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

It might just be that Nestle is made up of like hundreds of companies. That's why Nestle bans don't work, cause it's all Nestle

[-] Foggyfroggy@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

A megacorporation by any other name still smells the same. And Nestle stinks.

[-] girlfreddy@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Nestle is the biggest water thief in North America, even though they recently sold both their US/Can regular water bottling business.

Nestle did keep their premium water bottling sites tho.

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