To the Editor,
British Columbia will finally start charging companies for taking our groundwater and bottling it to sell at a profit. The problem is it will only be charging $2.25 per million litres.
Under this new pricing structure, corporations will be able to buy up B.C. water for next to nothing.
Nestlé’s chairman says that water should have a market price. Apparently he thinks the market price for him is $2.25. That’s what our B.C. Liberal government has shamefully agreed to as a fair price for this precious resource.
B.C. has some of the purest, cleanest and most delicious water in the world. But Nestlé doesn’t think anything of sucking it out of the ground for a pittance and selling it back to us in a plastic bottle.
Edwin N. TurnerNanaimo
To the Editor,
As we approach World Water Day on March 22, it is so very important for each of us to take action to protect our water resources, and in particular our watershed. Water is a human right and in many cases, that is forgotten or completely ignored. We all absolutely have to step up to the plate to protect this resource.
Our Nanaimo watershed is at risk due to it being owned by forest corporations.
You can help by calling for public ownership of our community watershed and a Water Act that truly recognizes water as a critical part of our very survival. Remember, water is life. Not just for us, but for all living things on our planet.
June RossNanaimo