re: #6 Lord Of The Pies

I’m separating issues. Would we be comfortable with small operators selling to Walmart or Costco? Minority owned and operated? Or if they cut the margin? Under what circumstances would it be okay to bottle water for drinking? Must we get our bottled water for drinking from thousands of miles away? Um, about that energy/carbon footprint we need to cut? What of that?

My overarching point is that the drought is way too serious to cloud up with other issues. Some point fingers at agriculture, because it’s so much water and such bog corporations. Their product is also sometimes known as “breakfast, lunch and dinner”.

It comes back to my question which has not been answered. If we can’t pump water for drinking, what other use can we possibly justify more?

Leveraging the drought to take shots at even rightly unpopular corporations is good advocacy, might even be smart politics but it’s awful, awful logic.

Drinking water pricing is one thing. The drought is another.