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Nestle CEO Says Water Is Food That Should Be Privatized

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I guess I would like a list of what everyone considers to be a basic human right. If I dig a well on my property then it is my water. If I grow a tomato then it is mine. How many objectors to what this guy said actually pay a water bill?
 
A person has a right to life, not the materials that sustain life. One must make, find, earn or buy those things that sustain life.

What right have you to demand that someone pump out and pipe water to you? Who pays for that infrastructure? Who pays for its maintenance? You think you have a right to other people's materials and labor?

To anyone with a problem with what the Nestle CEO said: where's your water well?
 
If I dig a well on my property then it is my water.

It is, but it would be fair that you allow others to have access to your water. This, I think, is what the CEO was alluding to...creating markets so that the fair price for water could be determined.
 
A person has a right to life, not the materials that sustain life. One must make, find, earn or buy those things that sustain life.

What right have you to demand that someone pump out and pipe water to you? Who pays for that infrastructure? Who pays for its maintenance? You think you have a right to other people's materials and labor?

To anyone with a problem with what the Nestle CEO said: where's your water well?

The infrastructure and maintenance is paid for by tax money, not by Nestle. The materials and labor to put in the infrastructure was paid for by tax money, not by Nestle. The water you use in your home is paid for by you and brought to your home by tax money, not by Nestle. The water was / is in the ground or taken from a river. Nestle did not create the water in some chem lab or factory. Nestle CEO nor any other company has a claim to the water.
 
The infrastructure and maintenance is paid for by tax money, not by Nestle. The materials and labor to put in the infrastructure was paid for by tax money, not by Nestle. The water you use in your home is paid for by you and brought to your home by tax money, not by Nestle. The water was / is in the ground or taken from a river. Nestle did not create the water in some chem lab or factory. Nestle CEO nor any other company has a claim to the water.

In some areas it is, but in most areas it is from private wells or even private companies who manage water infrastructure. Broaden your perception a bit.
 
The infrastructure and maintenance is paid for by tax money, not by Nestle. The materials and labor to put in the infrastructure was paid for by tax money, not by Nestle. The water you use in your home is paid for by you and brought to your home by tax money, not by Nestle. The water was / is in the ground or taken from a river. Nestle did not create the water in some chem lab or factory. Nestle CEO nor any other company has a claim to the water.
Did the Nestle CEO said he had a claim to the water? Did he claim that he had a right to appropriate already built facilities and infrastructure? What are you arguing here?

He also said something at the end of the video that I thought was very insightful. "We've never had it so good, we've never had so much money, we've never been so healthy, we've never lived as long as we do today. We have everything we want...and still we go around as if we're in mourning for something."
 
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Many times in various places, I've questioned the right to patent a naturally occuring substance. This is along a similar vein.

Patenting/owning the right to method of extraction, refining and providing that substance to the general public is correct. But to privately owning the right to the actual substance is not.

Water is a necessary fluid to sustain life. If rain falls on property that I own, it is therefore mine to do with as I see fit, share or not.
 
Do you believe water is a basic human right? According to Nestlé CEO water is a foodstuff that should be privatized, not a human right. Nestlé CEO Peter Brabeck says that with the global population rising water is not a public right, but a resource that should be managed by businessmen. Please do share your thoughts.


If they can pump it themselves and bottle it then they should be able to do what ever they want with it.Of course that's assuming they are not draining local water sources to do it and in that case the water should be rationed out in a sense so that large companies can not bogart and increase the costs of a city's drinking water supply.
 
sounds like a James Bond villain
 
A person has a right to life, not the materials that sustain life. One must make, find, earn or buy those things that sustain life.

What right have you to demand that someone pump out and pipe water to you? Who pays for that infrastructure? Who pays for its maintenance? You think you have a right to other people's materials and labor?

To anyone with a problem with what the Nestle CEO said: where's your water well?
It is, but it would be fair that you allow others to have access to your water. This, I think, is what the CEO was alluding to...creating markets so that the fair price for water could be determined.
I tend to agree with this, it all depends on a more strict clarification of exactly what he meant by "right". He did a piss-poor job of conveying his thoughts, IMO.


Many times in various places, I've questioned the right to patent a naturally occuring substance. This is along a similar vein.

Patenting/owning the right to method of extraction, refining and providing that substance to the general public is correct. But to privately owning the right to the actual substance is not.

Water is a necessary fluid to sustain life. If rain falls on property that I own, it is therefore mine to do with as I see fit, share or not.
Not necessarily...

Man sentenced to jail for collecting rainwater in Oregon ? RT USA

Who Owns the Rain? Hint: It's Not Always Homeowners - Popular Mechanics

Collecting rainwater now illegal in many states
 
In some areas it is, but in most areas it is from private wells or even private companies who manage water infrastructure. Broaden your perception a bit.

In the rural areas a lot of people have their own wells. There may be a few in the cities, but I've never seen or known anyone that has a well dug.

Yes, there are some private companies that processes and distributes the water, however I seriously doubt that the company paid for the materials and labor to run a water pipe to every house in the area they serve. Do you know of such a company that did so?
 

.....which I whole-heartedly disagree with. I wouldn't live in a State with such laws.

I use rainbarrels for water collection for my gardens instead of my well water. Saves electricity, and less minerals filtering into it via ground percolation (lime build up) which is better for the plants, and in the long run, me.
 
.....which I whole-heartedly disagree with. I wouldn't live in a State with such laws.

I use rainbarrels for water collection for my gardens instead of my well water. Saves electricity, and less minerals filtering into it via ground percolation (lime build up) which is better for the plants, and in the long run, me.
Personally, I agree with you. Wholeheartedly. Unfortunately, many states do not.
 
Personally, I agree with you. Wholeheartedly. Unfortunately, many states do not.

Restricting water collection on a grand scale for supplying an entire home, I could understand. But I don't comprehend how a State could restrict it for something such as a home garden. Refusing the right to sustain one's self via food or water is a step too far.
 
I don't believe it's a "Human right" but I have no issue with local water authorities being ran by local/state government since much of the infrastructure, land, etc used are with public funds or public property.

There is a middle ground between believing somehow people have a "human right" to water and feeling that there's a legitimate reason for some level of the government to be involved with the process.
 
this is kind of old. dude made the comments in 2005, and stepped down in '08.

Peter Brabeck-Letmathe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

that being said, water is certainly a right. i don't give a **** if nestle sells bottled water for a profit, but i think we've privatized enough utilities already. i don't want my town water treatment turned into a quest for profits instead of a simple and safe delivery system.
 
Nestle should have been shut down and it's board and CEO jailed decades ago. They are directly responsible for so many infant deaths and so much sufferring in India. Screw them and anything they have to say.
 
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I don't believe that water should cost more to individuals than the very minimal costs to provide such service. That said, under some circumstances scarce resources would be better managed by private enterprise provided that private enterprise was chartered as a non-profit and state and local governments had oversight to prevent abuses. In the area in which I live there are several private companies which have dug wells, created the delivery systems and charge less per unit of water than some of the publicly owned and operated systems. Within some governmental boundaries it is even illegal to drill your own well so as to free oneself from the monopoly of the "state".
 
If rain falls on property that I own, it is therefore mine to do with as I see fit, share or not.



I agree with you (In general.), and I'm going to guess that most people agree with you.

But if you will do a little research you will find that some states, localities don't.

You might want to check your local laws before you start a project involving rainwater.

As a matter of fact, a court in Jackson county, Oregon sentenced a man to 30 days in jail and fined him $1,500 for the 'crime' of harvesting rainwater on his property.

Read more here: Oregon criminalizes permaculture; claims state ownership over all rainwater - ponds and swales restricted - jail time for violators
 
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