{"id":78817,"date":"2018-05-17T06:42:28","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T13:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/what-happens-to-small-towns-whose-water-becomes-big-business-for-bottled-brands"},"modified":"2018-05-17T10:00:35","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T17:00:35","slug":"what-happens-to-small-towns-whose-water-becomes-big-business-for-bottled-brands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/what-happens-to-small-towns-whose-water-becomes-big-business-for-bottled-brands","title":{"rendered":"What happens to small towns whose water becomes big business for bottled brands?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-happens-to-small-towns-whose-water-becomes-big-business-for-bottled-brands.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Groundwater being pumped from a highland aquifer, only to be whisked away in tankers and sold in little plastic bottles by a multinational corporation \u2013 it\u2019s a difficult concept for a small farming town to swallow.<\/p>\n<p>Just ask the residents of Stanley, Victoria, whose four-year court battle to stop a farmer bottling local groundwater for Japanese beverage giant Asahi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2018\/apr\/30\/victorian-town-ordered-to-pay-90000-after-losing-bottled-water-battle-with-farmer\">ended in failure last month<\/a>. They were left with a <a href=\"https:\/\/jade.io\/article\/582193?at.hl=stanley+pastoral\">A$90,000 bill for legal costs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Locals have clashed with the bottled water industry in many parts of the world, including the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/expo\/erry-2018\/04\/c4f53fc3a99620\/10_things_to_know_about_nestle.html\">United States<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/national\/nestle-continues-to-extract-water-from-ontario-town-despite-severe-drought-activists\/article31480345\/\">Canada<\/a>, and perhaps most famously in the French spa town of Vittel, where residents have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2018\/04\/26\/french-town-vittel-suffering-water-shortages-nestle-accused\/\">accused<\/a> Nestl\u00e9 of selling so much of their water to the rest of the world that they barely have enough left for themselves.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-05-small-towns-big-business-bottled.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;05-small-towns-big-business-bottled.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Groundwater being pumped from a highland aquifer, only to be whisked away in tankers and sold in little plastic bottles by a multinational corporation \u2013 it\u2019s a difficult concept for a small farming town to swallow. Just ask the residents of Stanley, Victoria, whose four-year court battle to stop a farmer bottling local groundwater for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1506,1496],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-food","category-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78825,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78817\/revisions\/78825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}