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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