Foreign firms taking billions of litres from UK aquifers to make bottled water

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/25/foreign-firms-taking-billions-of-litres-from-uk-aquifers-to-make-bottled-water?utm_source=newsshowcase&utm_medium=discover&utm_campaign=CCwQ7prdy9-R3q_FARilpoTB59eH5KUBKicIMBC2lMmGybCXrQYY0d6hl4nqq6ecASoOCAAqBggKMJeqezDfswk&utm_content=bullets

by topotaul

8 comments

  1. Does anyone care about this story? I would only think it matters if the extraction is from water distressed areas.

  2. I bet its Del Boy and Rodders again, they never learn.

  3. I wasn’t clear from the article – do the companies pay for the licences?

  4. The story is, or at least should be, not that bottled water companies are extracting water (after all, where else do people think it comes from?) but that, as detailed by the Guardian, so many British water companies have been taken over by foreign rivals, so the profits flow overseas.

  5. Why does it matter if they are foreign? Even the guardian is now going for right wring rage bait headlines now

  6. Where else would they get it from? A weirdly Daily Mail angle for the Guardian to take.

  7. This isn’t new. Nestle are doing it in Canada (British Columbia), and when I lived there, droughts were quite common during summer. In the meantime they’d been given a massive tax break to sell the water off. Crazy.

  8. I’m not convinced that discovering “Harrogate spring water” is from England is top investigative journalism

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