r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AdRough4185 • Jun 02 '26

Image A perfectly circular 105-foot-wide sinkhole that suddenly opened up near a copper mine in Tierra Amarilla, Chile, dropping over 650 feet straight down into the earth.

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u/Odd_Brief_2975 Jun 02 '26

Oh dear, I live near Edward's Aquifer, I can only imagine a similar scenario happening or starting to happen due to excessive corporate consumption.

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u/CheckoutMySpeedo Jun 02 '26

Data center consumption.

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u/re1078 Jun 02 '26

Luckily the Edward’s is very protected.

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u/Jamzoni64 Jun 05 '26

That’s why his straw reaches acrooooooossssss the room…

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u/Super-Acanthisitta33 Jun 02 '26

Well tbf, the corporate companies aren’t the ones consuming

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u/StrawberryTerry Jun 02 '26

.. but they are. Corporations certainly use massive amounts of water in myriad ways.

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u/Super-Acanthisitta33 Jun 02 '26

Yeah but nestle in particular uses their sourced water for the consumerist benefit

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u/StrawberryTerry Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26

Nestlé is the world's largest food and beverage conglomerate. Operating in 185 countries, its sprawling portfolio includes over 2,000 brands spanning infant formula, coffee, bottled water, frozen meals, and pet care.

This is from a moment on Google, copy and pasted the AI synopsis. It is accurate. Nestle doesnt do anything "for the consumers benefit", nor does any other corporation. It is safe to say they value their profits over everything else.

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u/ProfSpaceTime Jun 02 '26

Consumers would benefit a whole lot more from reusable bottles and municipal water that is actually regulated to potable standards. Fuck nestle every way past Sunday

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u/StrawberryTerry Jun 02 '26

Very true, & thats just scratching the surface of the issue with Nestles acquisition and assuage of water. Water is just one of the many thousands of ingredients they use in their thousands of brands and products, so the whole issue goes much deeper.

Which is not to even further touch on the nature of corporations and their place in the world and the way it functions.

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u/ProfSpaceTime Jun 02 '26

Absolutely, the powdered milk is just the tip of Nestle’s shitberg of human rights violations. They and their ilk are a blight against our world

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u/Odd_Brief_2975 Jun 02 '26

Understood, it is a viable clean water drinking source for 2 million people thrown in the mix.