Nestle keeps bottling water in BC while citizens restricted by drought - Polidicks

[QUOTE=Rangergxi;48201929]Some places do in fact have shitty water (partially due to some pretty evil corporations). However BC and Alberta don't have this problem.[/QUOTE] You gotta leave the lower mainland more. I can think of a dozen small towns within two hours of me that boil their water because they completely lack water treatment facilities. Hell, Kamloops is a city of over 100000 people and it wasn't until less than 10 years ago that we finally got a multimillion dollar treatment facility, briefly the most advanced in the world. I can still remember when a glass from the tap was cloudy. There's places even further north that are completely third world. Forget boiling your water. You don't have plumbing in your house.

[QUOTE=The golden;48200889]Nestle is a disgusting corporation and I avoid buying their products whenever possible.[/QUOTE] Yeah, I feel pretty much the same way. I think outside of chocolate syrup, we don't use a single product of theirs. I was also pretty happy to see the nestle coffee shop downtown close (though, I felt bad for the people working there). I've thought terrible of nestle for years now.

[QUOTE=Zukriuchen;48201279]this is beyond pointless[/QUOTE] "Sir we are seeing a 1% spike in operating costs" "Get the lobbiests on the phone to draft tax breaks, lay off everyone who we can't replace with h-1b workers, and find a way to make 'slave labor' sound appealing"

Christy Clark is so fucking incompetent, she wanted to close a bridge for some dumb yoga thing INSTEAD OF USING ONE ONE OF THE MANY PARKS.

[QUOTE=nomad1;48203528]Christy Clark is so fucking incompetent, she wanted to close a bridge for some dumb yoga thing INSTEAD OF USING ONE ONE OF THE MANY PARKS.[/QUOTE] I really wanted to see that simply because of the shitfest that would of ensued. IT would of been absolutely hilarious.

[QUOTE=Fapplejack;48201775]Why do people even buy bottled water anymore in first world nations. The only reason one should have bottled water is for emergency provisions in the event of a natural disaster. We live in a society where drinkable water comes in huge quantities in plenty of sources in our daily live. Just save a damn bottle and buy a canteen or something that you fill up before leaving the house. Most bottled water tastes like shit compared to the tap anyway. Also why does anyone prefer to pay a few bucks for a bottle of water at a restaurant instead of just asking for a cup from the tap for free.[/QUOTE] Our city water just re-chlorinated our water, I'd shower in bottled water if I could it's that bad. Will be bad for another week or so, have to use bottled for anything I drink or eat.

Wish I could say "bottled water tastes crap compared to tap".

worst part is nestle bottled water tastes like shit

This is why I only drink Aquafina.

At home, tap water is much better than bottled. At work and in the city, the tap water is to the point where you will hurl just from sipping it, bottled water is the only option.

[QUOTE=nagachief;48205218]At home, tap water is much better than bottled. At work and in the city, the tap water is to the point where you will hurl just from sipping it, bottled water is the only option.[/QUOTE] Out here in eastern New Mexico, well-water used to be the best water you could get around here, shit was leagues better than tap or even bottled water, but as time's gone on and the aquifer continues to plummet, the mineral content is increasing, and in a nearby town there's even a problem with excessive sulfur content so on top of tasting like crap it smells the part, too. Nowadays I get all my water from work (fill up a 64 oz. Stripe's mug every morning and I tend to drink the whole thing by day's end, HVAC is hot-ass work) from the cooler, or from those 2-gallon box-shaped water containers with the little faucet built-in.

Why does this multimillion company currently get water for free... To sell it to people for inflated prices I'd love to pay 2.25$ for every million litres of water I use :v:

[QUOTE=flamehead5;48205438]Why does this multimillion company currently get water for free... To sell it to people for inflated prices[/QUOTE] Nestlé are [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestl%C3%A9_boycott]irredeemable cunts[/url], I wouldn't be surprised if bribery was on their list of sins

[QUOTE=ZestyLemons;48201871]Honestly I don't know. I just reuse bottles now by filling them with tap water. Hell of a lot cheaper. Some people like my mom say that tap water 'tastes grainy', which I never really got.[/QUOTE] Normal tap water tastes fucking nasty to me, but well water tastes good.

Do something about Nestlé please, this cooperation is too big

[QUOTE=Fapplejack;48201775]Why do people even buy bottled water anymore in first world nations. The only reason one should have bottled water is for emergency provisions in the event of a natural disaster. We live in a society where drinkable water comes in huge quantities in plenty of sources in our daily live. Just save a damn bottle and buy a canteen or something that you fill up before leaving the house. Most bottled water tastes like shit compared to the tap anyway. Also why does anyone prefer to pay a few bucks for a bottle of water at a restaurant instead of just asking for a cup from the tap for free.[/QUOTE] Tap water is not universal in the US. Some cities have pure tap water that is little different than bottle water and 40 miles south the water tastes like chlorine and has hard minerals which becomes increasingly common the further away from major cities you go. To say nothing of circumstantial specific requirements (as stated previously in the thread; construction is a prime example). You'd know this if you had any experience outside your personal bubble of ignorance.

[QUOTE=smfE;48205891]Do something about Nestlé please, this cooperation is too big[/QUOTE] Break that shit up like peanut brittle.

[QUOTE=RichyZ;48205869]I'll never understand the whole "x water tastes like shit" thing, tastes like water to me?[/QUOTE] A lot of the time it's "water's water" until you have water that has an obvious contamination from minerals or rust or somesuch, it'll either taste metallic or like dirt and potentially have fine sediment in it, in my experience

Hahahahha Rice farmers in California Guess after all Ricardo was extremely right when he said the world should specialize in what they can do better....

[QUOTE=nomad1;48203528]Christy Clark is so fucking incompetent, she wanted to close a bridge for some dumb yoga thing INSTEAD OF USING ONE ONE OF THE MANY PARKS.[/QUOTE] Don't forget the BC Liquor Reform. RAISE ALL THE COSTS!

[QUOTE=RichyZ;48205869]I'll never understand the whole "x water tastes like shit" thing, tastes like water to me?[/QUOTE] No it doesn't? Tap water tastes different to bottled water which tastes different to well water. Water is not just h2o. There's a lot of other crap in it that changes the taste. Even just boiling tap water changes the taste.

[QUOTE=Fapplejack;48201775]Why do people even buy bottled water anymore in first world nations. The only reason one should have bottled water is for emergency provisions in the event of a natural disaster. We live in a society where drinkable water comes in huge quantities in plenty of sources in our daily live. Just save a damn bottle and buy a canteen or something that you fill up before leaving the house. Most bottled water tastes like shit compared to the tap anyway. Also why does anyone prefer to pay a few bucks for a bottle of water at a restaurant instead of just asking for a cup from the tap for free.[/QUOTE] the water from my tap tastes strongly of iron and reacts with the fillings in my teeth.

I study in a town with extremely hard water (sometimes you can get a calcium precipitate if you heat it up), and it over all tastes like chalk. I switched over to bottle sparkling water and I feel healthier for it.

[QUOTE=LordCrypto;48200845]? [img]http://i.imgur.com/0n3blVa.png[/img] they have to pay less than 700 dollars a year [editline]13th July 2015[/editline] "The new rental rates will vary from $0.02/1000m3 for water storage and conservation purposes, to [B]$2.25/1000m3[/B] for most industrial and commercial purposes. [B]1000 m3 of water is equivalent to one million litres[/B]-enough to fill a 25 metre swimming pool." "[B]300 [/B]million litres of water"[/QUOTE] Why should they have to pay more for the resources we all get? That's a dangerous precedent to set. Agriculture is the single largest user of water by far. I'd wager that agriculture uses 300 times more water than Nestle could ever use - we going to put them on a different playing field too?

[QUOTE=SPESSMEHREN;48208300]Why should they have to pay more for the resources we all get? That's a dangerous precedent to set. Agriculture is the single largest user of water by far. I'd wager that agriculture uses 300 times more water than Nestle could ever use - we going to put them on a different playing field too?[/QUOTE] Actually, yes. It's no rarity for businesses to have different terms compared to physical users. Same reason why businesses need to get business internet connection even if nothing else changes.

Get a fucking sink filter jesus christ

They probably have their own sources of water and draw water from a Aquifer or underground water supply more then far enough away from any other water company to have any influence on each other. Them stopping bottling water wouldn't all of a sudden give other people access to the water they don't bottle.

[QUOTE=nagachief;48205218]At home, tap water is much better than bottled. At work and in the city, the tap water is to the point where you will hurl just from sipping it, bottled water is the only option.[/QUOTE] just get a decent filter a good one will take the horrible chlorine/chemical taste out of most any city water [QUOTE=SPESSMEHREN;48208300]Why should they have to pay more for the resources we all get? That's a dangerous precedent to set. Agriculture is the single largest user of water by far. I'd wager that agriculture uses 300 times more water than Nestle could ever use - we going to put them on a different playing field too?[/QUOTE] Why should companies be subject to laws ordinary people aren't subject to? Do you believe there should be a flat tax too? After all why should the wealthy pay more for the resources we all get?

[QUOTE=SPESSMEHREN;48208300]Why should they have to pay more for the resources we all get? That's a dangerous precedent to set. Agriculture is the single largest user of water by far. I'd wager that agriculture uses 300 times more water than Nestle could ever use - we going to put them on a different playing field too?[/QUOTE] Nestle draws from different sources. Can you care to tell me why exactly they should get to sell that water back to us when they buy it for less than operating costs?

[QUOTE=Nebukadnezzer;48208329]Get a fucking sink filter jesus christ[/QUOTE] Let me bring my sink to work with me