By Larry
Romanoff for PRAVDA, May 06, 2021
In
2013, the Internet almost exploded when a video was posted in which Nestlé
Chairman and CEO Peter Brabeck-Letmathe said that “access to water is not a
public right”, water was not a human right, that it was just another foodstuff
and a commodity, that it should be “privatised”, given a “market value”, and
distributed by the “free market”. Not only that, he stated that to declare
water a ‘right’ or a ‘human right’ was “extreme”. (1) These are his exact words from the video:
“The one
opinion, which I think is extreme, is represented by the NGOs who bang on about
declaring water a public right. That means that as a human being you should
have a right to water. That’s an extreme solution. And the other view says that
water is a foodstuff like any other and like any other foodstuff it should have
a market value.”
