Nestle CEO: Declaring water a public right "an extreme solution"

[badgate]

http://youtu.be/CZV431zhXA4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emA8l2fBM6Y&feature=share&list=PLC44E59825F2DF648
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmHekGAO080&feature=share&list=PLC44E59825F2DF648

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Yes, Nathan, I watched the video.

So why continue your inaccurate title?

His full words: "The one opinion which I think is extreme, is represented by the NGOs who bang on about declaring water a public right.  That means that as a human being you should have a right to water.  That's an extreme solution."

And if you can show me where the word "not" is anywhere in that quote, I'll send you $1,000 in cash.

The quote in the thread title is a paraphrase that was taken from the article I posted, which I'm going to assume you didn't read, even though I copied and pasted it in its entirety.

But since you insist, I'll change the title.  Why you're trying to score points by picking at semantics is beyond me.

Falsely attributing a quote is more than just semantics, it's journalistic malpractice. If you did that while working for a newspaper or blog, you'd have been fired for it. You do not put things in quotes that a person did not say. It is an incredibly important distinction, because quotation marks have a fixed meaning.

[Hatman 🍁]

  In some places if rain falls on your property you have no right to drink it even if you are dying of thirst. 

This is a good point, and one I wanted to bring up. How can anyone defend such a practice?

The thing with water is, it falls from the sky. You can commodotize the convenience of water, but you can't commodotize ALL water. If it falls from the sky, and you catch it, it's yours (within reason). Food is different, because we are not all farmers.

But anyways, water, food and shelter are all "public rights" as we all need it to survive.