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What happens to small towns whose water becomes big business for bottled brands?

  • Written by: Emma Kathryn White, PhD Candidate, Infrastructure Engineering, University of Melbourne
The more the market is willing to pay, the harder it is to regulate water use.Shutterstock.com

Groundwater being pumped from a highland aquifer, only to be whisked away in tankers and sold in little plastic bottles by a multinational corporation – it’s a difficult concept for a small farming town to swallow.

Just ask the residents of...

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