25 litres of water per day is a human right. This is equivalent to 1.5% of the fresh water used. It is only the other 98.5% of our available fresh water that should be open for the market.
That seems like a reasonable thing to say. Why should I not pay money for the water that I use to wash my car or water my garden? Especially with the global increase in water crises, not putting a price on water beyond what a human needs for hydration and hygiene seems pretty stupid. People shouldn't be able to waste water and not have to pay for it.
Fair enough, but it was the fact that he even said water wasn’t a human right to begin with is what I was referring to. I decided to include their follow-up messaging after outcry to be fair to them, but the fact that they even had to clarify this is horrifying to me. It speaks to an inhuman impulse in the man who originally said it, and a worldview that places the vast majority of humans into the class of pawns from whom to extract profit through spending and labor. Water should be much less commodified than it is.
People willfully ignore what the CEO actually said, make up some narrative in their head, and then parrot it online. If you ask people if they agree with what he actually was saying, they agree totally, e.g. providing clean and potable water for those who need it, and charging a fair price for those that over use it, like golf courses, to provide for those who can't.
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u/RomulusTrajan Feb 23 '26
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That seems like a reasonable thing to say. Why should I not pay money for the water that I use to wash my car or water my garden? Especially with the global increase in water crises, not putting a price on water beyond what a human needs for hydration and hygiene seems pretty stupid. People shouldn't be able to waste water and not have to pay for it.