Clearly, one provincial water rental rate schedule can’t possibly serve this province alone. Hope, where Nestle’s plant is located, gets more than two metres of rain per year. If that water isn’t bottled and sold, it will quickly flow into the Fraser and out to sea. No jobs, no tax revenues, and no royalties.

Osoyoos, in the south Okanagan, gets a bit more than one-quarter metre of precipitation per year. Using more water in the south Okanagan means someone else gets less or the environment suffers. One price applied to the whole province can’t possibly deal with the real value of water, when that value changes so much from place to place.  “The Tyee”