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Imagine another scenario. You are my neighbour. I spill some poison on the ground. Your child gets ill. Am I at fault?
If it is a feature the customers care about they will market it. But frankly customers just want a better price today.
A number of markets have few competitors which means it's beyond easy for all the companies to externalize everything.
Further, some products have deep supply chains that are easy to mix. Consider copper as an example. A responsible company will want to use recycled copper as much as possible because it's cheaper. However, can anyone realistically validate that none of that copper came from stolen cables or bad mining practices?
Have you ever even paid a water bill in your life or spent a few seconds thinking about how water is actually supplied?
The wholesale companies will then have their own pricing strategy for the end customer. But they will be paying both the network operators and the local gov.
Since water is municipal resource, the players should be paying the muni/city/state for the resource they are utilizing. The proceedings will be used by the muni to maintain the water availability.
Also, please enlighten me on where I can shop around for alternative tap water.
I’m being petty, and understand the linked article is more fear-mongery than what the actual situation is, but simply eliminating all regulation is not the solution, as history has shown.
In 2025 winner takes all ans monopolizes all