Nestle CEO: Water Shouldn’t Be A Right, Organic Food Will Kill You, And Nature Sucks

[Cyberman]

Over here in the U of K, we've had privatised water for years. While not strictly taking away our right to water, it does mean we have to pay for the water we use in the home and that money ends up in shareholders' pockets for the most part. Sure, a large part of the cash is meant to go into infrastructure and water treatment etc, but it's interesting that after the publicly-owned utilities were originally floated (pardon the pun), just about the first thing to happen was the restriction of supply, via hosepipe bans, water shortages, burst and leaking watermains and so on. After all, how else to make a profit from something that quite literally falls from the sky and springs up from the ground? Of course there may indeed have been outside factors playing a part, like dry summers, but it's notable - and noted - that the water companies have made record profits and obscenely astronomical directors' pay increases more especially when the rest of the country dries up.