If what you're saying they do is true, then just chalk it up to the underbelly of society along with about a million other things.

Let's conversely just be glad we can currently own our own ponds/lakes and do with them what we please.

Excerpt from Robert Crais' "The Monkey's Raincoat:"
"She took another microscopic bite of her sandwich, then pushed it away. Maybe she absorbed nutrients from her surroundings."