While municipal support is required under this proposal for water taking, the 50,000L or less exemption is deeply problematic, particularly in Central Wellington and other regions already stressed by Nestle and other users.
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Support will not be needed for small water takings. Within stressed areas, like Centre Wellington, the threshold for host municipality input should be reduced to the permit to take water threshold of 50,000 litres per day so the cumulative impact of all permitted takings can be considered.
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Community support should be required for smaller water takings. Within stressed areas like Centre Wellington, the threshold should be reduced to 50,000L per day.
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For a few decades now we have been addressing negative impacts of plastic accumulation and the millions of liters of groundwater extracted for profiteers by producing bottled water. Every minute, 1 million plastic bottles are purchased worldwide.
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I believe that you should stop filling plastic water bottles altogether, wether sustainable or not! Cause what you are doing is creating plastic waste! That is more harmful and unsustainable than any water conservation plan you may have!
It is our hope that our feedback is meaningfully considered by the ministry and that the Framework is developed in compliance with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People.
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PTTWs to take water for bottling should be phased out. Emphasis should be placed on drinking water quality from the tap where it is not up to standard to make it safe everywhere. Educational campaigns should be undertaken to promote safety of tap water.
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Clean Drinking Water is a very valuable resource that needs to be protected not exploited especially where the only people profiting is big businesses.
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The issue of water taking for the purpose of bottling and sale of water goes beyond simple sustainability. Water is essential to all life forms and must be considered an inalienable right for all. To allow commodification of water is to limit or deny that right for the purpose of financial profit.
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On behalf of the Corporation of the City of Guelph, I ask that you find attached the comment submission from the Environmental Services Water Services division in response to ERO 019-1340 Updating Ontario's Water Quantity Management Framework.
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We live in Elora, Centre Wellington, Ontario. As residents we are aware of the tremendous amount of work Save Our Water group has undertaken to protect our water supply being impeded by Nestle and the Middlebrook well, and cannot thank them sufficiently for their efforts.
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Dear Minister Yurek,
Thank you for consulting municipalities in the Provincial Water Quantity Management proposal. As you are aware, Climate Change is a critical issue and it is imperative that we all do our part in bettering the environment, while also protecting our water.
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Within the next 10 years, particularly in the face of global warming, fresh drinking water will likely become the MOST VALUABLE ASSET on the planet. All life depends on it, so water should be for life, and people, not for profit, as air is.
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To Whom it may concern,
I am strongly against the taking of any water for bottling purposes. It seems so ridiculous to think with all we now know that we would consider to support this type of industrial activity, and social irresponsibility.
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I most fervently ask the Ontario government to stop giving permits for bottled water extraction. I have a deep fear that the consequences of this extraction will jeopardize our water supply for all Ontario's. But water flows and thus the effect of depletion affects everyone.
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Four key areas for action #4 focusing in on water bottling facilities turns a blind eye to other producers of products that take large volumes of water.
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Water taking permits for bottled water should be phased out over the next few years and there should be a permanent moratorium on all bottled water taking permits, and no new permits or expansion of existing permits should be allowed.
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