As droughts become more prevalent, corporate control over our drinking water is threatening the health of water sources and the access people have to them. Josh Toussaint-Strauss explores how foreign multinational companies are extracting billions of litres of water from natural aquifers to sell back to the same communities from which it came – for huge profits‘It’s not drought - it’s looting’: the Spanish villages where people are forced to buy back their own drinking waterForeign firms taking billions of litres from UK aquifers to make bottled water Continue reading...
A Guardian video explores how bottled water companies, including foreign multinationals, are extracting billions of liters of water from aquifers, threatening water sources and community access, particularly during droughts. This practice forces communities to buy back their own drinking water at a profit for these companies, with some labeling it as "looting."
