wigantojapan Posted April 19, 2013 Share Posted April 19, 2013 Discuss..Obviously this should be moved elsewhere so mods please do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thighlander Posted April 19, 2013 Share Posted April 19, 2013 (edited) Water service is private in many parts of the world. A community well would be considered private, also. Edited April 19, 2013 by Thighlander Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onthedarkside Posted April 19, 2013 Share Posted April 19, 2013 Moved to General Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FunFon Posted April 19, 2013 Share Posted April 19, 2013 Was this CEO of Nestle Thailand? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krisb Posted April 19, 2013 Share Posted April 19, 2013 It already kinda is. We pay water rates at big cost from our taps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FunFon Posted April 19, 2013 Share Posted April 19, 2013 Mine's never been more than 10 euro a month - is that a lot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitsune Posted April 19, 2013 Share Posted April 19, 2013 (edited) He also said that NGOs were "extremist" to declare water as a human right ( as it was done 3 years ago by UN) http://americanlivewire.com/nestle-ceo-says-water-is-food-that-should-be-privatized-not-a-human-right/ http://www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/human_right_to_water.shtml Edited April 19, 2013 by Kitsune 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitsune Posted April 19, 2013 Share Posted April 19, 2013 It already kinda is. We pay water rates at big cost from our taps. Wrong, you pay the service that bring you the water, not the water itself. You are still free to go and dig a well instead and have free water. Up to now anyway If they do privatize water you die if you can't pay for it 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotto Posted April 19, 2013 Share Posted April 19, 2013 Another grab for money by a big multinational company pigs at the trough again water is not food leave it alone its a basic right to have water without it we all will die it should not only be for people that can afford it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FunFon Posted April 19, 2013 Share Posted April 19, 2013 Not to mention the fact that many who think humans have a "right" to live on this planet, would consider basic survival levels of nutrition to be a right, and some wild crazies would even put decent education, housing and medical care in that category, at least for citizens of the earlier-developed nations that think they can afford to guarantee such rights.Those few countries that actually can afford such luxurious promises are certainly to be commended, but I don't think many of their citizens are represented here. . . In the end we're just as subject to the laws of nature as the oceans' dwindling fish stocks and the burgeoning populations of rats and cockroaches, and in the eyes of the universe are due "rights" to exactly the same extent as any other species. Why we give sharks such as these a bully pulpit to spout their vile bile I'll never know. . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitsune Posted April 19, 2013 Share Posted April 19, 2013 (edited) Well now you know what type of company is Nestle and you are free to boycott their products and they do sell water too! Quick reminder of Nestle's scandals Chocolate Price Fixing, Marketing of formula, Ethiopian debt, Melamine in Chinese milk, Greenwashing, Zimbabwe farms, Palm oil use, E. coli, Child labour, and Horsemeat scandalhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestl%C3%A9 Edited April 19, 2013 by Kitsune 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
impulse Posted April 19, 2013 Share Posted April 19, 2013 Wait until they start charging you for the air you're breathing. Someone will figure out how to tie it into carbon credits...exhaling CO2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Songhua Posted April 19, 2013 Share Posted April 19, 2013 Sounds like the plot of a James Bond movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangkokburning Posted April 19, 2013 Share Posted April 19, 2013 Google water wars - read I thought this insanity was put to bed. Welcome to neo-serfdom Nestle....maybe if they had privitised water in Africa, they would not have killed all those infants years back. I'll be boycotting...just to easy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuestHouse Posted April 19, 2013 Share Posted April 19, 2013 i moved from Scotland (at the time nationalised water companies) to England (privatised water companies) my water rates of £27 turned into a water bill of over £300. Of course Nestle want to privatise an essential staple of human life... Chinese merchants have done it with Rice, why not water?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wamberal Posted April 20, 2013 Share Posted April 20, 2013 So, who should pay for the costs associated with capturing, storing, purifying, and distributing water? The fairy godmother? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABCer Posted April 20, 2013 Share Posted April 20, 2013 Yeah, Mr. Nestle, and so is air! Why not privatize it? Just one fine day do not be surprised if some terrorist gets you. No, no, - not me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonobo Posted April 20, 2013 Share Posted April 20, 2013 Not Thai-related. //CLOSED// Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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