The U.S. Forest Service has ordered the company that sells Arrowhead bottled water to shut down its pipeline that draws water from springs in the San Bernardino Mountains. The decision could end the long fight over the company's extraction of water from public lands. latimes.com/environment/story/

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More like this. They can't be allowed to sell PUBLIC water.

@lin11c @ianjames Well, they sell public oil, public gas, public trees... we really are pathetic about letting corporations sell us our own property. We even subsidize them for "developing" it.

Norway's got the right idea. Pity it'll never happenhere.

@pieist @ianjames
That's what you get when you buy politicians. Until we overturn Citizens United and remove all the corrupt "Supreme" justices we will not get any real accountability for the rich vampires stealing our public goods and freedoms.

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@lin11c @ianjames It's always been the case. Public property has always been exploitable by private capital in the US. The prevailing view is to find it uncontroversial and even virtuous.

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