The Monopoly of Bottled Water

How much of the world's water is

drinkable?

<1%

The Beverage Marketing Corporation

states the US consumers drank 10.1

billion gallons of bottled water.

Every 27 hours Americans

drink enough bottles of water

to circulate the equator with

empty bottles of water.

How does Nestle monopolize on this finite resource?

It makes $35 billion dollars

on water bottles alone.

Nestle brings in more that $100 billion a year.

In 2013, it was ranked the most profitable company in the world.

Who said oil and

water don't mix?

A Little Company Called Nestle...

"Pure Life"

Nestle water pumps 1.61 million gallons

of water per day...

This means that is pumps 588 million

gallons of water a year!

In 1998, the Nestle company launched its first brand of bottled water and named it Pure Life.

Available in more than 20 countries, the Nestle empire is the most popular brand of bottled water in the world.

Nestle controls over 70% of the world's water brands.

In just the United States alone, there are over 150 distributors in over 30 different states.

The global operations amount to .0009% of worldwide estimated freshwater withdrawls.

How do they do it?

• There natural springs are from aquifers, well or municipal supply.
• They remove the chlorine.
• They add water softener.
• They remove the natural minerals.
• They move through distillation.
• The water is tested to meet health requirements.
• The water is transported from a natural spring, using food-grade pipelines or stainless steel tankers, to food-grade storage tanks.

• Minerals are added for flavor...

Calcium Chloride

Sodium Bicarbonate

Magnesium Sulfate

• The water goes into micro-filters and the natural spring water is filtered.
• The water enters a process of ultraviolet light/ozone, this process disinfects the water.
• The water is then bottled with its own code.

• The bottles are packaged in its labels and boxed up .
• The water is distributed.
• Nestle bottled water makes its way into homes and bodies around the world.

The Aftermath

Why so many estimates?

Nestle does not reveal much of its information, six out of seven brands in North America do not provide a specific location of the water source, filtration method or contact information.

The Monopoly of Bottled Water

The Nestle Company was founded in 1866 with a European condensed milk factory in Cham, Switzerland.

Henri Nestle, a German pharmacist, was the key player in the creation of this now international conglomerate.

From 1913 to the present, Nestle has continued to grow and gather momentum. It has come to operate Nestea, Nescafe, Nesquick, L'Oréal, Alcon Laboratories Inc., Carnation, Nespresso, Buitoni, Friskies, Gerber and many more.

Bottle Facts

Company Facts

• Producing 1kg of the plastic used in the bottles requires 17.5 kg of water

In 2006, US consumers disposed of 30.08 billion bottles.

• Poland Spring, one of the many brands under Nestle's control, produces 2 billion pounds of plastic every year.

Built on the cornerstone of public health, the Nestle Company has continued to infiltrate other venues of consumption.

• There is 1.3 gallons of water are used to produce 1 gallon of water. (that additional .3 is used for packaging, energy and transportation)

Also in 2006, Nestle controlled 30.4 percent of the US bottled water market.

• With that number in mind, factoring all of their companies in, Nestle utilizes an estimated 16 billion pounds of plastic.

Company Brands Include:

Arrowhead, Calistoga, Deer Park, Ice Mountain, Poland Spring, Zephyrrilans and Pure Life, San Pellegrino and more

This means 9.14 billion of those bottles were likely a Nestle brand water bottle.

86% of plastic bottles end up in landfills

Cost Facts

A liter of Nestle bottled water cost around $3.99 at a gas station.

Therefore 7.86 billion water bottles can be estimated to have come from Nestle. (this is 491,250,000 pounds of Nestle plastic end up in the trash each year)

Nestle pays $3.71 for every million liters they pump from the ground.

Nestle sells the same million liters back to the public for $2 million dollars.

This is a mark-up of 53,908,255%