I do not understand why…

I do not understand why bottled water is still a thing. I understand that it was important when the Walkerton fiasco of "self-monitoring" caused a tragedy that still has repercussions to this day, but I do not understand why this is still an industry.

There are so many levels of wrong-ness here: the plastics that are not properly recycled now and will not be properly recycled in the future under the re-vamped blue box program; the fact that bottled water is so cheap as to be meaningless; the fact that we are taking water from ONE community and selling it to OTHERS - what does the FIRST community drink if we are taking their water? How are they irrigating their crops? How are they getting enough water for their own needs? If they are not getting adequately compensated for this, then how can we get rid of decades-old "boil water" advisories?

I certainly oppose this proposal as I opposed the one by Nestle before it. We should stop selling our primary resources to foreign companies. We need to take care of our own "third world" issues. We need to stop paying lip service to these problems and trotting them out only when it is election time and we are looking for votes and currying favour and approval.