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I agree they should pay the full price, and that bottled water is wasteful, but 4 million litres per day is not a large amount. It's equivalent to the daily consumption of around 8000 people.

Or equivalent to the water needed to irrigate a laughably small farm.

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4,000,000 / 8,000 == 500 liters per day per person?

http://www.csgnetwork.com/waterusagecalc.html

600 Gallons per day * 3.7 = 2,271 liters per day. That is just water without counting the water used to grow the food we use.

Meanwhile 4,000,000 liters can be benefit 4,000,000 people that drink 1 liter of bottled water a day.

Drinking water is as efficient use of water as it is possible. I rather drink from the faucet if possible but lots of people prefer bottle water.

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