Nestlé, the world’s largest…

Nestlé, the world’s largest bottled water company. The Swiss multinational is already allowed to pump up to 4.7 million litres of water out of the ground every day from two nearby wells that it bottles at its Guelph plant – on two expired permits no less! Nestlé says it needed to acquire this third well “for future business growth” – and it did just that.

Between its pumping from Ontario and B.C., Nestlé is already allowed to take up to 2 billion litres of water out of communities every year. It pays practically nothing for the water it then sells across Canada and to export markets for obscene profit. You might be shocked to learn that the export of bottled water from Canada to the U.S. has increased 383 per cent in the last decade – leaving behind billions of single-use plastic bottles that clog our landfills and oceans.

Just downstream from Nestlé’s Ontario bottling plant is the Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation, where only nine per cent of residents have clean drinking water. What will be left for future generations? Should water be for Nestlé’s profit or community use?

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