BC government plans to sell groundwater for $2.25 per million litres Quote:
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Old news a month ago. |
All that over $600? |
further out easts charge more per million. IIRC, a province charges like 40$ or 60$ and another charges somewhere around 100$ per million liters. and they sell it at 2-3$ per bottle :\ |
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Fact is, no other industry in BC pays any more for water usage either, beyond a token license fee. Mining, forestry, oil and gas production, and various others all use groundwater for various needs in the process of making their money but pay the same fees. What makes them special? Keep in mind, whether you're paying $5/dozen or $5/bottle at the retail end, that's not all money straight back into the company's coffers - a lot of that is various stages of markup along the way, to the truckers delivering the water, to the logistics outfits moving it all around, etc. Nestle probably sees about 20˘ of that $2 bottle, and sure that adds up to a lot for a million litres, but they have their own expenses too - building and maintaining the bottling plant and the infrastructure to extract the water, operating costs, utility costs, corporate taxes, employee wages... It's sure not like that whole $2 goes straight into the CEO's pocket. |
lol i was thinking more in the lines of like clubs and bars and restaurants. |
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I was parched. Drank that shit anyway. |
If you buy bottled water, and it's not an urgent need (like at a concert), then you really need to research how much this fucks up our planet. |
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This is one of those "everyone knows" things, but my friend's recent post on facebook really opened my eyes. He was never much of an activist, and neither am I. But just how unnecessary these things are, and the fact that these gross billionaires are fucking up our planet just to make more money really bothers me. So I bring this up when I can. Quote:
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Google it up and find a source that is more to your liking, if you doubt the number that much because it's from Brita. I quickly found one that said 60 million per day, which I think comes to 22 billion per year. 22 billion, per year. And every single one that has been thrown away, ever, is still sitting there for another 500-1000 years. And that's one country, where people are somewhat conscious of the environment. Imagine what it's like in huge countries where people don't give a shit? Or generally all over the world? All this oil taken out of the ground, turned into plastic, then thrown back into the ocean to sit there for centuries. All so some gross billionaires can get richer. |
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maybe the Americans should actually start recycling rather then just tossing the bottles away. That seems like the biggest issue here since water bottle sales are not going to stop. |
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By SP's thinking, cars should also be banished because of those who take them up forestry roads and burn them in the wilderness. |
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Besides, "I recycle, so it's not a problem" is such an incredibly short sighted way to look at it. Quote:
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all this bitchin over the cost of water and we have the best water in the world right out of our taps for free...... |
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i dont understand why people would buy bottled water honestly...being in canada and bc for that matter.. also, supposedly, if that plastic bottle gets heated at all it releases toxins into the water.. |
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