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California orders bottled water company to stop ‘unauthorized’ piping from springs

Water pours from a pipe in the San Bernardino Mountains, where BlueTriton Brands collects water for bottling, on Dec. 4, 2021, in Rimforest, California.

LOS ANGELES — For decades, water has been siphoned from springs in the San Bernardino Mountains and piped downhill to be bottled and sold as Arrowhead 100% Mountain Spring Water. After a years-long fight over the bottled water operation in the San Bernardino National Forest, California water regulators ruled Tuesday that the company must stop taking millions of gallons through its pipelines.

The State Water Resources Control Board voted unanimously to order the company BlueTriton Brands to “cease and desist” taking much of the water it has been piping from tunnels and boreholes in the

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