There was a good comment on Reddit Kia that mentioned the whole thing was blown out of proportion that Nestle used 0.01% of the water that agriculture used 77% of water in the state. And no body is pointing the finger at big agra... /r/news censor all the time, they don't allow opinions pieces, and block certain sites selectively and with bias naturally.  I consider it more likely that the people posting this "story" are paid shills, [Shills? OK can't it be click bait? But whatever.] and find it more disgusting that misleading drivel like this is even written. News has allowed this "story" to be posted several times - it's the same false claims over and over. Is it unethical to remove a story when it has been posted several times before? Or to remove what are literally misleading opinion pieces that break the rule of "news"? Heres' a calculation: https://archive.is/uYxI7 Nestle's water usage is less than 0.01% of the water usage in the state - and they pay the same as any other company. Yes, less than 0.01%, with pricing terms written for any company. That's less than a percent of a percent. Yet this faux outrage just never stops. What is the main consumer? Agriculture. Almond production uses 3 billion gallons a day.  Here's a chart of water use in California on UCLA's webpage: http://www.environment.ucla.edu/reportcard/article4870.html and another: http://i.imgur.com/2V7RBn6.png  Note that Agriculture is 77%. If we round up Nestle's water use to 0.01%, that's only 7700 times more. Where are the endless threads attacking Agricultural water use? Nowhere. You have a B-film-movie situation where a horde of online extremists are attacking a company that uses a miniscule fragment of the water in a state, whilst there is a 7700 times bigger consumer they simply ignore. It's totally possible that someone in isolation could come up with the idea that "Hey, it seems bad to bottle water when there is a drought". It's just when you sit down to write an article on it that you should inform about the percentage of water usage, and that Nestle is utterly miniscule and insignificant for the general water situation which is dominated by the whale of agriculture, rather than make it out as if they actually affect the drought. As for "repost":  https://archive.is/bsHAi https://archive.is/gF0DL https://archive.is/Vdkhb https://archive.is/gnhzp https://archive.is/6GBoO https://archive.is/Mgz2V  Immediately asserting "paid shills" based on this belongs on Conspiracy, where you'll find a bunch of similar threads. There's an international activist network who hates Nestle, that's well known, and unfortunately what they produce is no better clickbait than Gawker. - Some Reddit Guy  https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/3j5hkm/rnews_and_rworldnews_censoring_nestl%C3%A9_controversy/cumr32s