What Poland Spring Doesn’t Want You to Know
Poland Spring is raking in millions by bottling and selling Maine’s water — and throwing their weight around in state politics to keep profits flowing. During a drought this year, they publicly said they were cutting back. But we found evidence they’re pumping even more.
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@chantelfou
March 26, 2026 at 5:23 am
I worked for this company in Canada. I signed an NDA that I can now speak about. I know a lot about this company. They lie to their customers and they most certainly take more than their fair share of water yeah
@julirichmond3
March 26, 2026 at 5:23 am
Get Nestle out of Maine.
@MotoFox22
March 26, 2026 at 5:23 am
For anyone wondering about Wells, the more money you have the deeper you can go. So the rich ppl never run out of water, and the poorer ones who can't afford to drill that deep do. Generally speaking.
@mr.mrs.d.7015
March 26, 2026 at 5:23 am
This is why the real Michael Burry portrayed in the movie "The Big Short", the man who predicted the housing crash, began heavily investing in water
@INFJ2
March 26, 2026 at 5:23 am
Data centers use 20 MILLION GALLONS OF WATER PER DAY.
DO NOT ALLOW IT
@jasonw1960
March 26, 2026 at 5:23 am
If everyone would just buy a small under counter ro system you most likely will never need to buy bottled water
@jasonw1960
March 26, 2026 at 5:23 am
And here I thought it came from Poland
@GeorgeWashington83
March 26, 2026 at 5:23 am
There is no point in trying to ask nicely anymore!!!!!
@GeorgeWashington83
March 26, 2026 at 5:23 am
Eisenhower warned em all!!!!! Most are to young to have had the country when it was still in the people's hands, including myself. But I was born right before they started to take all the mind wakening media and teachings out of our society to dumb everyone down and take over the streets!!!!! Mom and Pop shops need to take the land back and communities' need to reevaluate their priorities!!!! We must get rid of national commerce the way it has been designed to functions these days and the actors that have been made filthy rich destroying it all!!!!!!!
@smi2le4ever
March 26, 2026 at 5:23 am
Those people in Maine need to just go collectively Burn down the factory, and do it again when they rebuild.
@bobwhite9670
March 26, 2026 at 5:23 am
You are dead wrong. The real issue is not that water won't come back it is that it won't com back in your lifetime. It will over a correct amount of ecological time return to where it was. The problems we are having and are going to have more and more is not the disappearing of water but rather the sped up use of water and nature has a replacement speed that is slower than we.want it to be. There is a finite amount of water on earth and it is exactly the same amount as it was a billion years ago. We just use it in an inappropriate way now that natural replacement can not keep up.
@LRosieB
March 26, 2026 at 5:23 am
How much water is extracted from aquifers via bottled water compared to farms, power plants, municipal governments, or individual households?
@robertmccabe1919
March 26, 2026 at 5:23 am
Only idiots buy bottled water 🤦🏼♂️
@joshs3916
March 26, 2026 at 5:23 am
😢
@SwampYankeeActual
March 26, 2026 at 5:23 am
7:21 *6000gal max more like 4800
Without a Permit to be overweight youll find it hard to LEGALLY transport that much H2O(8.34lb/gal) .
GVW cannot exceed 80,000lb without a permit.
8000 gal weighs almost 67,000.
Now those are the worlds lightest CMVs OR they haul a more typical 42,000 -48,000lbs of cargo.
The more you know.
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@dennisdegraad2447
March 26, 2026 at 5:23 am
Boycott Poland springs water like I am
@Tunnelslug
March 26, 2026 at 5:23 am
Do one on the juniper ridge landfill in old town Maine where they’ve lobbied multiple times to stop it from closing and it’s now so big it’s ruined the drinking water for multiple surrounding towns
@BryanWesolowski
March 26, 2026 at 5:23 am
There's nothing you can do about it the politicians have been paid for they're going to lie to your face until they leave office and then they're going to go to their vacation home.
@pedrosigilo
March 26, 2026 at 5:23 am
Nestlé did the same thing in Ontario Canada. These companies are all greedy liars.
Money is all that matters to them.
@UrbanFarmer413
March 26, 2026 at 5:23 am
When 5 companies own every other company you cannot beat them STOP ASKING WHY YOU KNOW WHY $$$$$$$$$$$$ anything of use will be stripped from this planet eventually not if just when
@XPFTP
March 26, 2026 at 5:23 am
not sticking up for poland springs. here tho on lake champlain. summer of 2025 was a bit of a heat wave. our well is nasty sulfer water. we buy bottled or go to a church and get water from their well.. soooooo the demand is there. sorry maine its not just you with no water. lots of new england states have crap water.
@Exposing-The-Badge
March 26, 2026 at 5:23 am
would be a shame if that facility were to burn down without a trace left behind……………
@KoalasAreBurrs
March 26, 2026 at 5:23 am
Nestle is really a plague.
@NotSoSlimSnacker
March 26, 2026 at 5:23 am
A monopoly on clean water…Fml…
@mikemaz6121
March 26, 2026 at 5:23 am
Dude. 200 miles away in south west New Hampshire it was a drought too. Poland spring didn’t cause 5 years of droughts.
@nathancarver5913
March 26, 2026 at 5:23 am
I'm born and raised in Maine so I was already well aware of poland spring's bull, but upon seeing the thumbnail, before I read the title, I was thinking "Wow that guy looks like a Mainer"
@ArchAngelRaz
March 26, 2026 at 5:23 am
at least its real spring water
@ryanprovost4517
March 26, 2026 at 5:23 am
Poland spring owned by Nestle!! Never buying them again
@the90ties73
March 26, 2026 at 5:23 am
A fire breaking out at the bottling plant and the firefighters not having water in the hydrants to fight the fire would be mighty ironic. * cough *
@kennysgamesandtoys
March 26, 2026 at 5:23 am
7:45 just funny the oldest, whitest, softest handed men in this video are the ones that make that decisions that forced a video to be made in the first place. Always the same culprits.
@llkjjjss
March 26, 2026 at 5:23 am
I'm going to sound like a crazy Democrat but natural resources should belong to the public.. I guess what sets me apart from the Democrats is I think natural resources should be exploited by the public.. Cheap water, cheap gas, cheap energy
@syd5380
March 26, 2026 at 5:23 am
The damage control ads from Poland Spring have been relentless here, they really want us to believe that their presence here makes our water supply MORE healthy because they're "closely monitoring" the water supply.
@toryannasJMW
March 26, 2026 at 5:23 am
As a member of the surrounding community: I’ve been screaming this from the rooftops. We are literally going dry.
@tabathad3228
March 26, 2026 at 5:23 am
Who owns Poland springs?
@JohnsAdventures-k9z
March 26, 2026 at 5:23 am
Ah, you should have said Nestle right at the start of the vid. It all makes sense now.
@RobRVA
March 26, 2026 at 5:23 am
Are there any water companies that offer a truly ethical bottle of water?
@Abesta83
March 26, 2026 at 5:23 am
we don't buy bottles at my house. we use an under sink filter that feeds a faucet as well as the fridge. saves a ton of money and doesn't taste like plastic and theft.
@heinzdelf
March 26, 2026 at 5:23 am
Mad Maxx around the Corner.
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