Foreign multinational companies are taking vast quantities of water from British aquifers for bottled water production, raising concerns over water resource management and sustainability.
Coca-Cola is the largest extractor, licensed to take 1.59bn litres for soft drinks and an additional 377m litres for bottled water brands from boreholes in England.
Sources Alma, through its British subsidiary Roxane, extracts 1.5bn litres annually from a site in Cumbria, producing Tesco's Ashbeck and other bottled waters.
Highland Spring, owned by a Bahraini billionaire, holds a licence for 1.85bn litres a year but claims to extract only 32% of its licensed amount.
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