Yet Another Way That Oil Is Screwing the Environment. 

It’s Not Just California: The Whole Southwest Is Experiencing a Drought

Notice California, where a lack of rainfall and record heat have pushed many reservoirs below 50 percent capacity. Farmers in California’s Central Valley have already seen cuts to water deliveries, and the governor has ordered cities to pare back water use.

But then there are those two huge red circles near Arizona: Lake Mead and Lake Powell. These gigantic reservoirs, which help supply water from the Colorado River to farms and cities throughout the Southwest, are also reaching historically low levels.

That’s a huge deal, as Eric Holthaus nicely explains at Slate. If water levels at Lake Mead keep dropping in the months ahead, Arizona could soon face a water crunch of its own.

Most notably, Lake Mead - the lake that provides over 90% of Las Vegas’ water - is reaching record lows. 

Water levels at Lake Mead had already been dropping for years, as more and more users have been overdrawing its water. More recently, drought and extreme heat have been adding to the pressure. With less snow in the mountains, there’s less water flowing into Lake Powell, which in turn is delivering less water downstream to Lake Mead. Read more

Las Vegas - an unwise settlement at best.

If Nestlé is unwilling to stop their practice of bottling water in drought-stricken areas, then it’s time for us as consumers to take action and boycott their water.

Sign the pledge and share with friends: No more Nestlé bottled water! http://trib.al/FjkSfPH

soooo basically…dont drink bottled water

if you’re in the bay area your tap water is cleaner than the water sold in stores anyways like you can literally drink toilet water and it would still be a higher quality than store brand

Obama Brings Out Luther, His Anger Translator, During White House Correspondents’ Dinner Speech 

*inhales*

water is growing more and more scarce in california because nestle is fucking bottling all of it and selling it. they are on a native american reservation which means they dont have to involve in the emergency water procedures that everyone else in california has to follow. nestle is literally creating these shortages and no one is doing anything to stop them. not only are they doing this to california, but also places where poverty is a major issue and they barely have water to begin with, they are doing this so that it doesnt seem as if they are adding to the problem and its the areas own problems (because they have had shortages beforehand) . now. why is it california has one of the largest fucking bottling plants, and people are ignoring that maybe the plant has something to do with it??? everything to do with it. KILL NESTLE KILLNESTLE

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to push home how bad the water shortage is in cali there are literally towns where there’s no water. none at all. towns literally twenty minutes away from me and the taps are dry. no water at all. people bought bottled water to use for their toilets and to wash dishes, etc. it’s been bad. the drought has really hurt us. and nestle is fucking us over even more. fuck nestle honestly.

Extreme drought in California

and eagle rock decided to dump 70thousand gallons of fresh clean water on a rusty pipe ffs