same thing was happening here in California. We've been in a drought for over a decade, but Nestle was pumping out an obscene amount of water, on a permit that expired in 1988.
https://amp.theguardian.com/global/2018/oct/04/ontario-six-nations-nestle-running-water

I don't like reading about this, but I appreciate the thoroughness of the article and the fact that someone is drawing attention to this problem.

I watched a documentary about these tactics in Africa a while back.

"The rapid growth of the bottled water industry here has come with its own environmental costs of heaps of plastic bottles filling up the streets and drainages of the city, reaching as far as the Atlantic. Just as costly is the social exploitation of neighbouring villages like Mandegeri near Nestle’s bottling plants which receive the run-off from the plant in their drinking water. Nestlé’s promise of access to clean, safe drinking water is superficially fulfilled with taps near its plant, a great distance away from the village itself leaving some residents unable to access it conveniently and having to cross dangerous high-speed traffic to get there. A perfect example of a corporate social responsibility intervention gone wrong."

https://medium.com/the-sustainability-collective/a-review-of-rotten-troubled-water-a1555bbaf0b5

I live in a country with a lot of groundwater that likes to say that in the future it will be able to export it -- to profit from the cycle that's already been put in place by predatory companies, I guess.