Nestle will only have to pay $596.25 for 265 million litres of water in B.C.

[OnlinePoker]

Until now, they've been paying NOTHING.

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More than 82,000 people have signed a petition against the government’s plans to sell B.C.’s water for $2.25 per million litres.

“It is outrageous,” says the online petition from SumOfUs.org, that corporations can buy water “for next to nothing.”

B.C.’s Water Sustainability Act (WSA), which comes into effect next January and replaces the province’s century-old water legislation, has been heralded as a major step forward.

http://www.theprovince.com/news/Outrage+boils+over+plans+sell+groundwater+million+litres/10865416/story.html

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. Megacorporations should certainly pay rates within at least an order of magnitude of what

individual consumers pay.

Even if you want to 'stimulate economic growth' by letting them pay less than anyone else, giving them a 90% cut in costs is more than reasonable.

[Scuba]

2. Not to mention that Nestle is evil to the marrow ...

https://www.minds.com/blog/view/60213/nestle-ceo-water-is-not-a-human-right-should-be-privatized