With widespread drought…

With widespread drought across many areas of North America, water becomes less of a commodity and more of a public resource to be managed for everyone.
In Ontario, continued development in rural areas is increasing local demand for water, reducing the size of, and increasing pressure on, the aquifers we tap into to obtain much of it. It's important that we not risk limiting our ability to provide fresh, potable water to our growing population by licensing firms to draw water and effectively export it to other areas. This increases the potential for water to be drawn from aquifers faster than natural ground filtering can replace it.
From an environmental perspective, packaging for this water adds tremendously to the waste, even when recyclable, that ends up in landfills, and may also contribute to the growing problem of microplastics entering the food chain.
For these reasons, I do not support the issuing of any further permits to draw water by commercial, for profit, entities, such as Triton Water Holdings Inc.