FIJI WATERS - The owners, the Resnicks, need also a lot of water for all their other products/projects down there in California and they have friends in highplaces like Gov. Jerry Brown, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Gary Newsom - somebody really should watch that water in california.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Resnick#Criticism
Resnick's Holding Company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wonderful_Company#Controversy
His wife Lynda Resnick is a born Harris and she was involved in the Pentagon Papers scandal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynda_Resnick#Early_life
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynda_Resnick#Pentagon_Papers
Wikileaks - Pentagon Papers - Pomegranate Papers
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-pomegranate-papers
"On Sunday, WikiLeaks made available thousands of secret documents about the war in Afghanistan. While the government condemned the act, it did not go to court to try to stop it. Why not? Perhaps because it had tried that almost forty years ago with the Pentagon Papers. Restraining publication of truthful information—prior restraint, as it is known—comes “bearing a heavy presumption against its constitutional validity,” a presumption not met by the argument that the publication of a classified study of the government’s policies in Vietnam would hinder national security.
But two days earlier, Judge Judith Bartnoff of the D.C. Superior Court apparently decided that different standards apply to pomegranate juice than to national security. On Friday, July 23rd, Judge Bartnoff ruled that the identity of a government agency investigating PomWonderful, the company created by the billionaire marketing genius Lynda Resnick, whom Amanda Fortini wrote about for The New Yorker in 2008, was so secret that she ordered the National Law Journal not to print it—even though the identity of the agency had been published in court records that were freely available weeks ago.
But the judge said that those documents should have been sealed and found that the court’s interest in maintaining the “integrity” of its docket overrode the First Amendment concern."
Delta Tunnel / WaterFix - Gov. Jerry Brown / Newsom / Schwarzenegger & the Resnicks
"In what some critics have called secret meetings, some of his most trusted advisors met with several leaders from southern California water districts and state water officials, helping broker a sweetheart deal in 1994. Two decades later it still gives the Resnicks nearly unrivaled access to water. Wonderful denies the meetings were done clandestinely, alleging that those who say so have an "ax to grind." The upshot of that meeting: California handed over public land and an underground aquifer (former farmland and oilfields that had the potential to store about 500 billion gallons of water) to a group of five public water districts and the Resnicks' Westside Mutual Water Co. The new owners, in turn, agreed to forfeit state water contracts. They then installed a 6-mile-long canal and 85 wells at a cost of $50 million. FORBES estimates that the Resnicks' 57% stake in the storage facility is worth at least $250 million."
"The Resnicks are already looking to secure additional water sources. The couple could score big if a $15 billion water project championed by Governor Jerry Brown is officially approved in the next few years. At least two Wonderful farming executives are involved in a grassroots push for the project, now called California WaterFix, which would carry water from the Sacramento River Delta through two 30-mile-long tunnels to San Joaquin Valley farms. It's a long-term bet but one that is very controversial right now.
There's another cushion they've been building for decades. They have invested $100 million in technology initiatives designed to help manage water shortages and high utility costs; their water expenses, which tripled in the past 15 years, account for 40% of their agricultural costs. "There's no bigger incentive. We have a very aggressive R&D program," Stewart says. In addition to drip irrigation systems now used on all their farms, they have spent $22 million on solar energy networks and $41 million on fuel-cell research and implementation to power their plants and facilities more cost effectively. A new research project is also about to roll out "supertrees" cultivated to yield more with a regular tree's amount of water, which could even be sold to rival farmers. Whatever the future brings, it would probably be a mistake to bet against the power couple."
https://thevalleycitizen.com/want-water-donors-first-says-jeff-denham/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Water_Fix_and_Eco_Restore
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Water_Fix_and_Eco_Restore#Water_Fix
The Resnicks and CalTech
Just a conspiracy theory, but what if cheap Californian water would be bottled, branded as Fiji-Water and sold with quite a nice margin and 10% for Newsom, Pelosi and friends?
Watch the water??