Forest Service Considers Nestle Mountain Water Withdrawals

[JDPriestly]

5. Dear Nestle, I am a 72-year-old retiree. I save all the household water I possibly can so that

I can keep my garden going. That means that I carry bucket after bucket of water out from my kitchen into my yard for my trees -- to keep them alive.

That's how we live in California.

And you take OUR water, the water in the public parks in our state, pay a pittance for it, and then we are supposed to save water.

It's OK that you sell water, but please don't take the water you sell out of the California water household at this time. When we have plenty of water you can have your share. But we who live in California with our infamous low-flush toilets and our "waterwise" gardens and our drought can't afford for you to take our state's water or water from our national parks and sell it back to us at a profit.

Please stop. At least until we get a spate of very rainy years. Please.