How Does Your State Rank for Manufacturing?

Due to California's lax water regulation laws (if you drill and find water, it's all yours until the well runs dry) many bottled water companies are set up in the area, draining the fossil aquefirs to supply to the thirsty people of the Midwest, where we ... have about half ... of the world's ... fresh water supply ... in the Great Lakes...

Avoiding that nonsensical logic about sending coal to Newcastle, In California, if you get your water from a municipal source, such as the city tap, or the state-funded pipeline, you have to deal with all the rationing and usage restrictions, since the municipality 'owns' that water and is 'doing as it sees fit' by trying to control the demand so it doesn't far outstrip the supply. If you are 'off the grid,' and not connected to the municipal tap, what you do with the water you find is your own business. So bottler companies who have been there for a century and a half, for example, (not naming names, you can look them up) continue acting as if it's business as usual, pulling out all the water they want until their plant is no longer able to turn a profit.

So California, which is in a decades-long drought, is still exporting water while it scrambles to find enough to keep the other cash crops growing at a profitable rate. Oh, and trying to keep people from dying of thirst, dead people stop paying income tax.

Coca Cola wanted to put up a water bottling faculty I believe in Michigan a few years back.... and the amount of water that they would use was unbelievable. If I racall correctly, I believe it would actually show a drop in the lake levels..... , ^{but I don't trust me own recollection.}

Thank God for the Great Lakes Compact, I can't help it if California is foolishly stupid. I not surprised, but they should be the ones addressing it.

That would fit the pattern, the Economy of Scale that allows Big Bev to provide liquid products nationwide at 'rock bottom' also requires huge resource demand at the consolidated manufacturing center.

For the sake of (what's left of) their ecology, CA needs to 'nationalize' it's water reserves, in something similar to the Great lakes Compact. But that would go against the platform of the Republicans in charge, who want to remove Government's interference with the 'little guy,' by which they mean Big Biz, the corporations funding the re-election bids of the candidates.

You'd link a state as openly and admittedly 'weird' as CA would have more Liberal leanings. Why aren't the 'Hippies' and 'Granola Gals' fighting to save the state's resources? That's a state that loves to ban things, why can't they ban water exportation like they banned plastic bags? (Right as the plastic bag recycling plants were ready to open their doors and accept the feedstock, no less? But that's a rant for another time.)

I remember at time when I was about 8 or 9 in a car going to or from town shopping or something.

It was brought up about having water in soda machine, who would be foolish enough to buy that when you can get it out of a tap.

We thought that was hilarious.

And now, not only is Plain bottled water sold in soda machines or refreshment is a better term , but now Plain bottled water is more expensive than soda or even some flavored water from brand stores such as Walmart. How is that possible?

" but now Plain bottled water is more expensive than soda or even some flavored water from brand stores such as Walmart. How is that possible?"

Part of it is pure Corporate Capitalism (seeking money for a Public Resource), part of it might be, for lack of a better term, 'coercive pricing,' such as the City of Chicago's 'surcharge' on bottled water (a tax by any other name) to encourage people to shift their habits away from the 'waste-generating' water source and back to good ol' Chicago tap water, which you are already paying for in your semi-annual water bill. Unless you're one of the small but growing number of houses with a water meter, charging you per gallon drawn, your water bill is based off the size of your house, the width of your 'lot frontage,' (to determine how much front lawn you have to water) and the number of water spigots on the outside of your house.

California Governor: Democrat; California Assembly Majority Democrat; California Senate Majority Democrat.

How does that make the "Republicans in charge?"

I get that folks that aren't Republicans want to "nationalize" property that isn't theirs.

That's not your property they scold. as they take or tax or misappropriate it.

If only Republicans were half as effective as they are made out to be.

Milo

Just shooting the breeze with adreasler, I totally missed that....

You are correct. And technically not really off topic.

Sorry, I was not doing enough research, and from the surface information I had (allowing water to be exported from a drought-stricken region for corporate profits, the Sony Bono Copyright Extension act) I had thought that the CA government was corporate-'rights' over the rights of We The People. and that's a very GOP attitude these days.

I apolgize for any offense my misstatement may have caused.

No harm, no foul. Just challenging the assumption.

Milo