Lynda and Stewart Resnick - The Wonderful Company
Fiji Water is owned by the Californian entrepreneurs Lynda and Stewart Resnick, who urge consumers to drink their brand to combat climate change.
The firm takes fresh water from the Yaqara Valley on the island of Viti Levu and ships it thousands of miles to the UK and US.
The Wonderful Company is privately held by billionaires Stewart and Lynda Resnick, whose businesses are notorious for controlling more California water than all the households in Los Angeles and San Francisco combined.
What isn’t well-known is that the Wonderful Company grows some of its crops in parts of California’s Central Valley where oil companies like Chevron dispose of oil field wastewater in agricultural irrigation systems.
Wonderful grows some of their Halos, pistachios, and almonds in areas where this oil wastewater ends up irrigating the crops. These products are then shipped around the country and around the globe, to store shelves and kitchen cabinets everywhere. Traces of cancer-causing chemicals like ethylbenzene have been found in the wastewater, along with a host of other toxic substances.
Shockingly, there are no regulations to require regular testing of the wastewater or the crops irrigated by it.
https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/news/fabulous-fight-against-wonderful-company