Yes, it’s picayune in the grand scheme of things. It’s all about theater, not about reality.

Now, of course the entire world would be better off if people just filled reusable bottles from their tap – both environmentally and economically – but the marketing engines have convinced most that somehow getting your water from a bottle is better… Sad…

Solid point. Moreover, guess who consumes the water once bottled.

Uhhhh, the Chinese?? Common sense fled our state in terror years ago.

Yup, 1 acre foot of water is ~3 million gallons so the 50 to 150 million gallons of water is 17 to 50 acre feet. California farmers consume 34 million acre feet of water annually or about 1 million times more than the bottling company.