Level 3 Watering Restrictions for Greater Vancouver

[sumpfinfishe]

OK so nestle doesn't buy the water, they rent the property to gain access to the water source. Either way, they pay a minimal fee, less than what the average lower mainland resident pays in taxes a year to access and use hundreds of thousands of gallons of water and in return after filtering, treating, bottling, and marketing for each bottle of water they sell the profit is 98%.

In my first reply I didn't post my vent about nestle to have a debate on nestle and there business practices, it was merely another example of how we are being told we need to restrict our water usage while giant corporations can use as much water as they want whenever they want.

[albert_dao]

That's a straw man. If nestle Nestle was drawing water from the same treatment plants, they would have the same restrictions imposed upon them. But seriously, we're being asked to leave our lawns and not fill swimming pools. Is this totally unreasonable? Seems like a step in the right direction.

[sumpfinfishe]

Well at least were not being asked to rip up our lawns and replace them with gravel or rock gardens yet. In California you can get a rebate from the government to do this, which in turn covers the cost of hiring a company to rip up your lawn, certify the action and put down a dry substrate