People enraged with Nestle's acqusition of small township's water source
The multinational giant Nestle's new buy has caused people going furiously against the company.
The well-known Swiss Water reproduction company has the capacity to generate to 3.6 million litres of water for bottling on a daily basis at its nearby plant at Aberfoyle in Ontario. They recently bought a well from Middlebrook Water Company after having made a conditional offer in 2015. The well is actually situated near Centre Wellington, a small Canadian township.
According to The Canadian Press, Centre Wellington has had been attempting to buy this well for a certain period of time. The mayor of the township Kelly Linton said that with the growing population of the township the major issue which turned into a measure to worry about was the lacking of sufficient water supply for drinking and domestic purposes of the citizens. Therefore, the township had desired to buy the well to ensure that the citizens get flawless water supply "safe from commercial water taking." .
Primarily, Nestle fetched its primitive offer for the well to Middlebrook Water company in March of last year. However, the township authorities made a counter-offer for the same in July this year. Although, the mayor didn't disclose the exact value of the bid that the township had made, but he added that the offer had no conditions attached, as reported by Vancouver Sun.
Thereafter, Nestle applied their first right of refusal and proceeded with attempts to outbid the other bidder (i.e: The township) for the well and finally they purchased it in the last month. Nestle has also stated that it will use this well as an additional water source for its Aberfoyle Water plant.
However, the company has clarified that it had "no idea" that the other bidder for the five-hectare well was the township of Centre Wellington and that the township had more serious reasons to bid for the well as the company stated on their website: "Nestlé was unaware that the other offer was made by the Centre Wellington township, although, we have had productive discussions with the township since we announced our initial intention to purchase the Middlebrook Water Co.," Nestle also added that the company is planning to work together with the township and it is going to continue its discussions to come to a decision which can be beneficial for the whole community.
After the outburst of the news of Nestle's well purchase, the social media was flooded with protests and boycott against the company by the individuals while Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne called for bottle water reform.
