It's not just bottled water companies that harvest Ontario's water. The token fees paid by bottlers such as Nestlé don’t even cover the government’s costs of husbanding our water resources. Article Continued BelowIn the weeks since my last column, Nestlé has used its financial muscle to outmanoeuvre a municipality trying to protect its water supply: The multinational matched a bid by the Township of Centre Wellington to secure a local well, guaranteeing Nestlé future water rights. Mindful of grassroots protests, Premier Kathleen Wynne has woken up to water bottling. For decades, governments of all stripes ignored water rights, just as they allowed the breweries to gain an iron grip over beer sales in the province.

Source: thestar October 04, 2016 10:01 UTC