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Nestlé is extracting water from Canadian towns on expired permits

by nblavoie on 10/20/17, 7:17 PM with 4 comments

  • by dean on 10/20/17, 7:45 PM

    At least Ontario has increased the price for 1 million litres of water from $3.71.

    The popular assumption that future wars will be fought over water is overblown when you consider water prices like this. I couldn't understand why the government was basically giving the water away, so I was happy to see the price increase to $503.71 per 1 million litres. Although the article says it still costs more than that to manage the ground water.

    As of August of 2016, in B.C., the price for 1 million litres of water was $2.25 -- which is ridiculous. Hopefully that price will go up as well.

  • by nwrk on 10/21/17, 2:26 AM

    / Wish the upvote, can stop this from happening.