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Re:Michigan OKs Nestlé Water Extraction, Despite Public Comm... by rmason on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @06:47PM (#16760023)
Nestle is paying $5200 for all the water it is drawing. I'd be willing to wager they're paying 10-20x that on lobbying efforts.

https://www.bridgemi.com/guest-commentary/opinion-nestle-wat...

The county they're in has high unemployment and they make the case that it's all about the jobs they're creating.

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Re:Michigan OKs Nestlé Water Extraction, Despite Public Comm... by nrdgrl on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @06:49PM (#16760043)
That is the permit application fee (one time, $5,000) and reporting costs ($200 / year). They aren't paying for the water.
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Re:Michigan OKs Nestlé Water Extraction, Despite Public Comm... by Turing_Machine on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @09:51PM (#16761128)
Detroit is currently selling water for $23/thousand cubic feet, or about .000321/gallon. That's filtered, treated, and distributed to a tap in every home.

What do you imagine a fair price would be for untreated, pump-it-yourself groundwater?

http://www.detroitmi.gov/Portals/0/docs/DWSD/Water%20Rate%20...

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Re:Michigan OKs Nestlé Water Extraction, Despite Public Comm... by toomanybeersies on Thursday April 05, 2018 @12:36AM (#16761802)
When you pay for residential water, you're not actually paying for the water. You're paying infrastructure costs, the cost of running the pumping station and repairing the pipes to your house.
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