Canada: Outrage boils over as B.C. government plans to sell groundwater for $2.25 per million litres

You're kidding me. This isn't even about Brabeck anymore, it's about your inability to understand the difference between water rights in common law, citizen's rights as defined by a constitution, and inalienable human rights defined by the UN or prevailing cultural norms.

The State of Florida doesn't have to pay Georgia money to use water that flows south.

The heck are you talking about? I didn't suggest anything of the sort.

The majority of water in the US or Canada is not covered by any individual owner's rights, of course. These "natural resources" are then administered by states. Some states are more aggressive about their water policies than others. Georgia may have a more relaxed relationship with Florida about the few rivers that cross state lines, but you better believe that California, Arizona, Mexico, and other boundaries in the west are highly contentious and are quantified in dollars.

When water is not protected by private ownership, it is then simply a natural resource. The law (in the US) divides access to this resource into many theoretically balanced uses, but in many places, corporate uses, usually subsidized with tax money via municipal or state infrastructure, dominate. This is what is being discussed in the OP's article. A company can currently export local water out of a watershed, or use water and pollute or waste it to a certain threshold without any cost. The water in question is either unclaimed, or included in the "bundle of rights" with land ownership, but the new thinking is that it should have a cost to remove from an aquifer or from a watershed. This is a gray area in common law and is being taken advantage of by companies like Nestle. Brabeck straddles this divide. He obviously wanted (he's no longer CEO of Nestle) to make a shit ton of money using free raw materials sold to the highest bidder, but he specifically advocates for policies that would put a price on water and therefore limit it's extraction and global resale.

You clearly know more about his position than he does.

You just don't give a fuck. Read what he (or his ghostwriter, I don't really assume it's him, though it may be) have written. You've just formed an opinion about him and are trying every which way to avoid actually reading what he's written about this for years. And you probably flush your toilet with drinking water. THAT'S the behavior of an idiot.

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