Time to go shower with a friend. This isn't so bad…
If you put a bucket into the shower you can catch enough water to then flush the morning yellow that's mellowing…
As long as you keep it plutonic :)
Okay, how about we start with how totally unnecessary bottled water is, in a nation with tap water that is tested to a higher standard than bottled water.
I guess you live in a home without lead solder in your pipes. Or you like high levels of some metals that are present in some city systems. Or perhaps you forget that city treated water in some areas carries dangerous levels of E-Coli (Walkerton anyone?). But if it wasn't for bottled water, people would still be reaching for a can of Pepsi and there is no way that Pepsi is making it's way into my water utility pipes. City water turbidity issues aside, bottled water (Nestle or Coca Cola's Reverse Osmosis) is generally of consistent high quality and very convenient.
City water is great but not the be-all-and-end-all of good water procurement. Bottled water fills a legit gap in our water-economy. It never prevents anyone from going to a tap.
Looking at Nestle now. The great evil of May and June 2015! (To be replaced by some other corp operation soon enough when the fun wears off for the discontents).
The facts is: Nestle uses (in all USA and Canada operations combined) approx 2 Vancouver city days worth of water.
Consider this: the government rakes in both exorbitant Corporate taxes (From Nestle Canada) and the employees of Nestle's water supply operations pay income tax (also quite exorbitant by world standards) and to top it all off, they mug every bottle at the cash register for HST (also exorbitant).
From a government revenue perspective, it would make perfect sense to give Nestle the water for FREE because Nestle generates a lot of loonies in the provincial coffers. The HST alone is waaaaaaayy waaaaay more than any citizen pays per litre.
So, that's my first argument.
Second. The amount of fresh water generated in BC is obscene. Just look at the Gazzillions of litres of water that flow down the Columbia River watershed each day (each second for that matter). Or how about the flow of the Fraser River. For Gosh sakes, the Fraser is almost the second highest flowing river in the world for a few months of every year.
That's my second argument - that water management is the real problem. We have so much clean water and it is all the exclusive domain of Interior Power Projects. Not looking at that water in a holistic way leads to waste and drought management issues in the future.
The fact is, there is so much fresh water in BC that it could feed every drought parched farm in the entire world. That's no joke, it's the reality of our province and the excess of fresh water we naturally have due to our PNW geographic orientation.
If Vancouver actually runs out of water, it will highlight that the reservoir system is still wholly and completely insufficient. Even with the drought, we had so so much water in the big February storms and the majority of it was doomed as reservoir overflow.
Canada is positioned to be an agricultural giant thanks to global warming (one plus maybe) and our abundant supply of fresh water (if we can get our act together).
Piling on Nestle only demonstrates that people need some corporation to vilify. That means they also have too much idle time on their hands. Vilifying companies over moot issues is a 1st world problem.
ISIS is coming and will sort you all out.
