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Nestle CEO Says Water Is Food That Should Be Privatized

BMCM said:
People already pay for the water they use. I get a water bill every month.
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If you're like most people, it's a set amount. What he's calling for is people paying for water by how much of it they use.
 
DrunkenAsparagus said:
If you're like most people, it's a set amount. What he's calling for is people paying for water by how much of it they use.
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Not sure where you get "most people". Except for when I lived in apartments, and water was included in the rent, I've always had a water meter and got charged according to volume of use.

I do know of a handful of cities that do not have meters and charge a flat rate, but they are the exception. And since I work in civil engineering, pretty much every project I have ever designed included a location for a water meter.
 
24107 said:
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.

Read more at Nestlé CEO Says Water Is Food That Should Be Privatized - Not A Human Right - American Live Wire*|*American Live Wire

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The government doesn't believe that water is a human right.

Buy a piece of property in south central Texas, try to drill your own water well, tapping into the Edwards Aquifer, without all the necessary permits, licenses, fees and well engineering and see what happens. You'll find out, right quick, that water isn't a right.
 
Fisher said:
People who want free water should walk to the river with a bucket or buy a shovel and start digging. Otherwise, just hope it is included in your rent if you are that poor.
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Though if you live in a big city, that river water isn't really drinkable untreated. In part, because of people like this guy who have a "right" to pollute it.

I understand that we need these factories and that pollution is just part of the deal. Fine, as long as the water is treated properly before I drink it. I wonder how many people defending this guy are firm believers in the "right to life." Since water is necessary to live, wouldn't that be part of the right to life? Or do you only have a right to live until you pop out of a vagina?
 
rocket88 said:
Though if you live in a big city, that river water isn't really drinkable untreated. In part, because of people like this guy who have a "right" to pollute it.

I understand that we need these factories and that pollution is just part of the deal. Fine, as long as the water is treated properly before I drink it. I wonder how many people defending this guy are firm believers in the "right to life." Since water is necessary to live, wouldn't that be part of the right to life? Or do you only have a right to live until you pop out of a vagina?
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I think Nestle sells a lot of water under a lot of brands and the guy has a different worldview.
 
BMCM said:
and you would be wrong. Read their website. They are a multi state company. They acquire other water companies. I doubt very seriously they bought and paid to have the pipes layed themselves. They use pipes already paid for by the tax payers.

https://www.aquaamerica.com/about-aqua/overview.aspx
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I was afraid you didn't have a point, but you just won't come out and express it.

Aqua has laid their own pipes and they have purchased the pipes laid by others, including those laid by government entities. What difference does it make? They own the pipes and have always been subject to government oversight. The taxpayers have been compensated for their laying of the pipes when the pipes and the rest of the infrastructure was sold.

Please, if you have a point to make, please make it.
 
Henrin said:
You have a right to life, but do not have a right to anything that helps to sustain that life.
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With abortion and death penalties - that life right may not be issued to you or it may be taken away.
 
24107 said:
Ever watch that movie total recall. :lol:
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There were a number of movies that capitalized on air. In another one they were stealing Air chambers from the rich. Because oxygen was out and a specific kind of pollution was introduced to the air so as to contaminate it (i.e., make air scarce and thus able of selling as a product) leeches flourished. Food was also scarce and people and leeches started eating one another. This image of a guy holding a big sausage like leech above his mouth while he slowly put it on his mouth while is slimy leechy fluids were pouring around his mouth, and he crunches the first bite, was so disgusting, that I recall it even today... Why... Some... 25 or so years after as a matter of fact!
 
24107 said:
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.​
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The rise in overall population is reason NOT to privatize water. Water is a part of the land which, like the classical economists, I believe is a common right.​
 
AliHajiSheik said:
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?
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Those examples are the products of your labor and rightfully yours. The natural world (ie a lake or river) is not the product of anyone's labor.
 
I didn't here/see him ever say that water should be privatized at all. Highly despicable for this garbage news cite to take someone out of context through a translation. Also, who the hell doesn't already pay a water bill? christ, I've lived in over 20 places and most of them had a water bill every 3 months or every month.
 
Geoist said:
Those examples are the products of your labor and rightfully yours. The natural world (ie a lake or river) is not the product of anyone's labor.
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Isn't your assertion contrary to the idea that the water at the bottom of a well is part of the natural world? Aquifers are underground rivers.

Are you saying that someone with water rights on a property cannot own it? Not sure where you are coming from.
 
AliHajiSheik said:
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?
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WRONG. That aquifer which you tapped, a public domain, can be pumped dry from any location. IMHO, your rights to that public resource are no greater than your recharge percentage of that public resource.
 
there is no right to water, or any material good or services in america, however water is necessary for life, and the protection of life thru sanitary means.

we all have to have water, and its the duty of our state and local governments to see it is clean and available to the public via our tax dollars.

privatization of public water is ridiculous, and any members of a government who promotes the idea, should be removed from office.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
WRONG. That aquifer which you tapped, a public domain, can be pumped dry from any location. IMHO, your rights to that public resource are no greater than your recharge percentage of that public resource.
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do you have a right to rain water, you catch in a rain barrel?
 
vendur said:
I didn't here/see him ever say that water should be privatized at all. Highly despicable for this garbage news cite to take someone out of context through a translation. Also, who the hell doesn't already pay a water bill? christ, I've lived in over 20 places and most of them had a water bill every 3 months or every month.
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Someone with a well pays no water bill, except for any power used to pump it out. ;)

I pay for city water (from County Line Special Utility District) yet have my own septic/drainfield so I pay for no public sewer fees (typically double what the water costs).

Water is a precious resource in the southwest.

Growth of large private water companies brings higher water rates | www.statesman.com
 
AliHajiSheik said:
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?
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Actually no it isn't. You have to file a claim for that water, the water rights. A great amount of the underground water is owned by someone. Out here rural water districts own most of the underground water. On my farms I am restricted to just residential use, I can't irrigate crops on my own land because I only own the surface rights. Just like oil or coal the underground water doesn't automatically come with surface ownership.

For that matter the creek that cuts through one of my farms, I own the ground, but have to apply for a water use permit to pump water out of the creek.
 
ChuckBerry said:
A person has a right to life, not the materials that sustain life.
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Umm..without those materials then you have no life. So if you have a right to life you have a right to those materials.

ChuckBerry said:
One must make, find, earn or buy those things that sustain life.
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One has a right to own a gun. Just because you have to make, earn, (or even find) something does not mean that you don't have a Right to it.

ChuckBerry said:
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?
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Those that dig the wells, provide the infrastructure to resources such as food, and water isn't really selling a product. They are selling a service. No one here is suggesting that we make, or demand, that someone provide those resources for free. After all, people willingly pay for bottled water all the time and have no problem with it. Because the companies that provides that bottled water took the time to purify and bottle that water for easy access anywhere. That is a service.

ChuckBerry said:
To anyone with a problem with what the Nestle CEO said: where's your water well?
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Mine is about 100 ft from where I am going to build my house.
 
This whole issue just vibes like someone is laying the groundwork to go after Nestle for its anti-Union policies and are just trying to build a head of anti-Nestle steam before they drop that bomb.
 
AliHajiSheik said:
Isn't your assertion contrary to the idea that the water at the bottom of a well is part of the natural world? Aquifers are underground rivers.

Are you saying that someone with water rights on a property cannot own it? Not sure where you are coming from.
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You have a right to access that water. And if anyone wishes to use the well you built then they have to ask. But in the natural state, land is a common. It is something we all have a right to access. Any denial of access (through land titles and such) should be compensated to the direct community.
 
Kal'Stang said:
Umm..without those materials then you have no life. So if you have a right to life you have a right to those materials.
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Exactly what vulgar libertarians and conservatives cannot seem to understand. It is a contradiction to say we have a right to life, but no right to access what sustains life.
 
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