Bottled water is a huge…

Bottled water is a huge driver of plastic waste, this permit should be denied in order to limit the supply of bottled water and drive up it's price. Consumer reliance on cheap bottle water will not stop unless the price is significantly increased. The government of Ontario should set a realistic price on water resources and change and upfront surtax on each bottle filled to offset the costs of collection and recycling of the plastic bottles. So many individual bottles of water are used by consumers in place of municipally available clean safe water it is a shame. Ontario should not be giving up it's amble water resources so that a large multinational corporation and reap huge profits and distribute them to their rich shareholders.