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Malik
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PhD candidate@Tsinghua. Water lover @ Sustainable groundwater management. Qanats/Karez system. water politics. Car person. Loves low rides. Philately hobby
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There are six water-bottling plants within a 10-mile radius, including one run by Nestlé and another by French multinational Danone. They pump up mineral water from the aquifer beneath the Montseny mountain range and put it in plastic bottles to sell

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
‘It’s not drought - it’s looting’: the Spanish villages where people are forced to buy back their own drinking water
Spain is increasingly either parched or flooded – and one group is profiting from these extremes: the water-grabbing multinational companies forcing angry citizens to pay for it in bottles
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2024 at 11:35 AM