Nestlé bottles around 705 million gallons of California water a year, according to their fact sheet. I don't see any larger figure in critical news coverage or protest sites, some of which don't even bother mentioning numbers.

705,000,000 gallons is about 2164 acre-feet, the unit in which water consumption is measured at the state level.

Actually, the unit should be called mega-acre-feet, because no sector bothers to use less than a million of them at a time.

3.8 million acre-feet go to watering lawns. If lawns were distributed equally across the Californian population, Nestlé would be using as much water as 22,000 people watering their lawns. That's about the population of Laguna Beach. But instead of pouring the water onto the ground, Nestlé is sealing it in plastic bottles, distributing it to retail outlets everywhere, and offering it to thirsty customers, giving them the choice of obtaining a cheap, clean, healthy drink.

“There are over 1 million Californians who are without safe access to clean water in California today,” said Walker Foley of Food & Water Watch, a Washington-based NGO. In some small, poor California communities facing clean-water crises, residents spend up to 10% of their income on bottled water, the organization says.

And Nestlé is the villain?